Mother's Day is coming. What is your favorite memory of your mother?

The whole years we’ve lived together and she being a great single mother most of her life.

Every time me and my mother have ever gone ice skating.
The day me and my mother picked out my homecoming dress in sophomore year of high school.

At one point, she had 3 jobs. She worked a lot to provide for me, and with all her working, I also got to spend a lot of time alone lol.

I have ALOT of good memories of her but the one that comes to mind today is her chasing us kids around backwards on her hands and knees with her purple stretch pant-clad butt while we ran and screamed! XD
I miss her very much :)

Tons of great memories of that strong woman who somehow held life together for me and my sister after my “father” decided he was too weak to be a man and raise the kids he had spawned. She sacrificed everything for us, and as a parent now I have no idea how she did it.

My mom was my Girl Scout troop leader for four or five years. I started when I was in first grade and didn’t get out of Scouting until middle school-ish. She was the mom who would organize everything and kept all of the cookies at our house until the other moms could pick them up…I’m not sure if she actually liked doing it or if she was doing it to spend time with me and my sister, but I love that she did that with me.

One of my favorites, that was repeated every year (until Grandma passed away), was of my Mom and my Grandma and me in the kitchen at Grandma’s house on Thanksgiving. My Grandma taught my Mom how to cook, and subsquently, I learned by watching both of them.

When they were making the pies, there was always that bit of dough that you slice off around the edge of the pie. Mom and Grandma would let me and my brother roll it out on a piece of foil, sprinkle it with sugar and cinnamon and then bake it in the oven until it was crispy. We called it sugar pie.

I can still smell the wonderful aroma of turkey and gravy and mashed potatoes and rolls and green bean casserole and pumpkin pie. That combination of scents always puts a smile on my face and a picture of my Mom and my Grandma into my mind. The sight of 60’s style kitchen aprons also does that for me. All three of us would wear flowery, slightly psychedelic patterned aprons in those days. Actually Mom and I still wear them!

I’m still having my favorite moments with Mom. She’s 90 years old and has more energy than me. If you say ‘let’s go’, she is always ready and willing. She like to ‘shop til she drops’, and is one of the best cooks I know. I love calling on her to give me directions on how to cook something. My favorite memories are all of them, then and now.

Here in England Town Mothers Day was on April 3rd. Just thought i’d say that for no good reason XD
My abiding memory of my Mother has always been the admiration I feel that she brought up 3 boys as a single parent. My parents divorced when I was 6yrs old, one brother being a year older than me & one a year younger. That lady deserves a medal, I may go & make her one right now :¬)

Any of the memories from when she still behaved like a mother, and not as though it was some duty thrust upon her against her will.
I think my mom used to be fun, although nothing is jumping out at me off of the top of my head. I’m sure my fond memories are clouded by my frustration with her in the present.

My mother died when I was very young. I remember a feeling more than anything. I remember snuggling on her knee and her stroking my hair and I was listening to the clock tick. My dad was sleeping on the lounge. I remember feeling very loved. I only have a couple of memories of my mother but they both very strongly evoke the feelings of love she had for me. I am very grateful for those memories.

I remember my mom sitting in the middle of the yard covered in mud and flinging worms at me. We would sit in our “mud hole” for hours making mud pies.
Oh this is making me want to cry, I miss her so much.

I went away to scout camp when I was 11 for a whole week, my first time away from both parents. When I got home, my mom answered the door and hugged me for a long long time, crying the whole time.

When she and I used to colour in books, or read bedtime stories together. At night, she used to sing my lullabys and sing me to sleep. I love my mum. She’s made so many sacrifices for her kids and has had to give up the good things in life, yet she asks for nothing in return. Mums are amazing.

That they are Queenie.

I was griping to mother once, many years ago, that I did not think my clothes were “cool” enough.
She said the following “Darling, your friends are so busy worrying about their own real or imagined problems, that you would be disappointed to know how little they think about what you are wearing.”
She was correct.
That was my mother.

The day she came storming into the pharmacy at the pharmacist’s request because he thought he was going to ream her out because I was standing in front of the condoms too long and he was afraid I was going to steal some. I had been reading each package trying to figure out if any were florescent and none were when he shouted down at me that I was stealing them and I certainly wasn’t as I had cash in my pocket. She marched in and proceeded to dress him down for verbally attacking me and ended with, “Even if she was stealing condoms don’t you want teenagers having safe sex?”

Waking up in the hospital after almost bleeding to death the night before and seeing my mom asleep sitting in a chair with her head and arms draped over my legs.

My mom is happiest when she throws her parties and is around a lot of people and playing games and having fun. She’s in her element when she’s able to entertain and take care of everyone. She is one of the most fun and hilarious people to play games with (dice, dominoes, board games, cards). The last four or five times her and I played poker with a group of people, we both cleaned house and made grown men cry. Damn, it was fun. :D

@noelleptc Memories of any female figure that has ever had an influence on your life are acceptable!

@noelleptc Ofcourse! I must say, I’ve got more happy memories of me with my gran, than me with my mum. She was there all the time you see, whilst mums can get very busy… :)

That is so beautiful @noelleptc What a fabulous person to have in your life.

I loved my nanna too. She was my rock.

@noelleptc That was absolutely heartwarming :)

As a child, going to the library with her every week to pick out new books. As a teen, we would go out to dinner together once a week before my Girl Scout meeting if Dad was out of town.

As an adult, taking her on a trip to Florida. We’d get up early with our binoculars and bird books and hit the beach. We also went to visit an old college sorority friend of hers, and the woman told some wonderful stories about the shenanigans they got into and called Mom by her old nickname…one that I had never heard before. The whole trip was lovely.