motherless daughters Archives - CatsKidsChaos https://catskidschaos.com/tag/motherless-daughters/ Cats, kids, coffee and chaos Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:58:30 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://catskidschaos.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cropped-cropped-catskidschaos-blog-logo-32x32.png motherless daughters Archives - CatsKidsChaos https://catskidschaos.com/tag/motherless-daughters/ 32 32 Mother’s Day. Dear Mum. Thank you and I’m sorry. https://catskidschaos.com/2019/03/31/mothers-day-dear-mum-thank-you-and-im-sorry/ Sun, 31 Mar 2019 02:00:41 +0000 https://themadhouseofcatsandbabies.com/?p=19478 Today is Mother’s Day here in the UK. There are many of us going through Mother’s Day, today, without our mums. The loss of my mother has impacted my life, the way I view things, and how I parent. For those of you mothering on Mother’s Day, with the pain of loss, be it an […]

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]]> Those earrings. Handing down memories. https://catskidschaos.com/2018/10/03/those-earrings-handing-down-memories/ Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:33:42 +0000 https://madhouse.chocolateboxstudios.co.uk/?p=17482 Those earrings. Given to me by my parents when I was the same age as her. Made from a piece of jewellery my mother had broken up and made into a first pair of “good earrings” for me. Real stones. Diamonds and rubies. Worn for special occasions. Treasured as “proper jewellery”. Kept by me, hidden […]

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]]> I’m still here. To my daughter on this big day… https://catskidschaos.com/2018/09/05/im-still-here-to-my-daughter-on-this-big-day/ Wed, 05 Sep 2018 04:00:30 +0000 https://madhouse.chocolateboxstudios.co.uk/?p=17235 To my daughter. Today is a big day. It’s a big day for you and a big day for us, and me. You are going off on a new adventure. Growing up. I’m sure it was only yesterday I dropped you off for your first day at nursery school and cried my heart out as […]

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]]> Mother’s Day, always bittersweet… https://catskidschaos.com/2018/03/11/mothers-day-always-bittersweet/ https://catskidschaos.com/2018/03/11/mothers-day-always-bittersweet/#comments Sun, 11 Mar 2018 00:00:56 +0000 https://madhouse.chocolateboxstudios.co.uk/?p=15311 When my mother died, for the longest time afterwards I was angry at her. I felt she had abandoned us, left us, not tried hard enough to stay. It took me a long time to come to a place where I wasn’t angry and I forgave her. Mother’s Day for me has always been bittersweet […]

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]]> https://catskidschaos.com/2018/03/11/mothers-day-always-bittersweet/feed/ 1 I do not need to be reminded to grieve… https://catskidschaos.com/2018/02/18/i-do-not-need-to-be-reminded-to-grieve/ https://catskidschaos.com/2018/02/18/i-do-not-need-to-be-reminded-to-grieve/#comments Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:34:52 +0000 https://madhouse.chocolateboxstudios.co.uk/?p=15102 Grief is a strange thing, and it’s very much a personal thing. One person’s grief is not the same as another persons. I know grief. I know it well. I have loved and lost. I have been slapped in the face, personally and bruisingly hard by grief. A fair bit of my life has been […]

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]]> https://catskidschaos.com/2018/02/18/i-do-not-need-to-be-reminded-to-grieve/feed/ 3 Christmas is bittersweet, allow me my grief… https://catskidschaos.com/2016/12/23/christmas-is-bittersweet-allow-me-my-grief/ https://catskidschaos.com/2016/12/23/christmas-is-bittersweet-allow-me-my-grief/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2016 11:27:38 +0000 https://madhouse.chocolateboxstudios.co.uk/?p=12207 For me, Christmas is bittersweet. On one hand, there is the joy and magic of Christmas,  and the fun and delight of family time but I balance that out with the lingering sense of loss and grief that tinges it with sadness for me, and probably always will.  We have all the fun of planning […]

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