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Dear Amber,
Apologies, I felt I left you out of my previous post. Sorry to hear that your poor mam passed on recently. I am sure she is with your mum and is happy, take it that they were a dancing couple. Remember them dancing together.
With heartfelt love & blessings.
Rachel
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Hi Rachel,
It's OK, I didn't feel left out.
When I asked for this thread to be started, it was my desire to have somewhere where we could remember our loved ones on those special anniversaries or whenever they popped into our thoughts and we wanted to share those thoughts somewhere. Yes, initially when our loved ones move on to the next stage of their journey we'll be posting here with sadness, but over time that will turn to sharing happy memories. And I think it's important to remember those times - that's how people live on, in our hearts and our minds.
I like to talk about my mam and dad, my memories of them, it keeps them alive for me, but my sister and brother find this too hard to do at the moment. Not really surprising I guess, as my dad died on 14th December 2006and my mam died on 5thMay 2007, both were sudden and unexpected, and we all cope in our own ways. My way is to talk, but that is not their way, and that is fine.
...take it that they were a dancing couple. Remember them dancing together.
That was an in-joke, mentioned at both my dad's funeral and my mam's - my mam loved dancing, but my dad had to have several drinks before he'd hit the dance floor! Thing is, he was quite a good dancer, he just didn't have the confidence.I like to think that on the other side he's found the confidence to dance and that they're dancing together.
As always, it's the "firsts" that hit home - the first Father's Day without your dad, I'd always thought is was just commercialism, but now I'd love to be able to send a Father's Day card. And now my mam's birthday, when I'd usually send her flowers.
I have lit a candle, one that should burn all day,and sang happy birthday, and I'm sure she was there as I did it.
With love to all,
Amber
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to my nan emphysema..I was 8 I saw too much...23rd june 1988.I still see you but my brother still misses you so much we all do. just to say we love you very much.
we miss you.
Mardigras
blessings to you all and comfort for your loss[sm=hidesbehindsofa.gif]im the one behind the couch offering the hugs of support.
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[sm=love-smiley-009.gif]I would very much like to say a big BOO and I LOVE YOU to my mum Mandy who sadly left us on 28th August 1994.[sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif]
She was not my birth mother... in fact there was only a 12 year gap between us so in some ways she was more like a sister[sm=love-smiley-009.gif], but she made up for all the pain of being ripped away from the woman who gave me birth. [sm=love-smiley-009.gif]She was an earth angel and in my mind the best person ever to have walked the earth! [sm=love-smiley-009.gif]She was, is and always will be my greatest inspiration.. along with my dad terry who i am so blessed to have in my life!!!!![sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif]
Times have been really tricky lately but I have felt mum[sm=love-smiley-009.gif] around soooo much - through songs randomly playing that we used to sing and dance around the living room together, through the smell of her perfume, through my best friend taking up smoking to persuade me to give up... just as she did to my dad, through little messages conveyed by the angels that only we would undrestand. i know she is right here by my side and I know that the absolute miracle in my liferecently is largely down to her!!!![sm=love-smiley-009.gif] It has been a tough year for me - I hit 30, an age that she never made, but I realise that now her spirit is kinda liveing through me... and that propels me ever onwards and upwards!!![sm=love-smiley-009.gif]
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[sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif]So much love to you Mum[sm=love-smiley-009.gif].... you will NEVER be forgotten!!!![sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif]
[sm=love-smiley-009.gif]Much love and very big hugs to everyone who posts on here... past present and future.
Losing our loved ones is always so hard, but in reality they really are never lost. They remain forever through our love and memories... treasure them always![sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif]
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I love this verse.
my mums best friend gave me a little book with it in on the day of my mums funeral and I kept it by my bedside for years.
Recently my cousin lost her husband tragically in a motorbike accident after only 10 months of marriage and I knew it was time to pass that little book on.
But here is the verse.... I hope it brings comfort and faith to others too XXX[sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=hug.gif][sm=love-smiley-009.gif][sm=1kis.gif][sm=angel_sm030.gif]
Death is Nothing at all
Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I and you are you
whatever we were to each other
that we still are
call me by my old familiar name
speak to me in the easy way
which you always used
put no difference in your tone
wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together
pray smile, think of me, pray for me
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was
Let it be spoken without effort
without the trace of a shadow in it
Life means all that it ever meant
it is the same as it ever was
there is unbroken continuity
why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you
somewhere very near
just around the corner
All is well
Henry Scott Holland
(1847-1918) Canon of St Paul's Cathedral