Info courtesy of "Lorna at Vicenza"

UK Mothering Sunday/Mothers Day = April 3rd

If anybody wants to send flowers in the UK, the 10% discount code for
bunches.co.uk is MD11 .......... includes free delivery and a free box of milk chocolates. Ordering is easy and they accept Paypal.

NB. Orders must be placed before midnight Saturday March 19th.

http://www.bunches.co.uk/flowers/mot...hp?aff=md2011a

Thanks Polly

Cheers Polly

Thanks for the reminder I had forgotten it was in March!
Flowers ordered = happy Mums!

Already sent my cards- it is usually around MIL's birthday- 18th march, so we bundle them up together. April is a rather late time to have it, so they will get cards very early.

It's in April.

It is 3 weeks before Easter- so as Easter moves about, so does UK mother's day.

Oh dear, that crept up and hit me in the face.

Hadn't thought about the date. I'll be over there with my sister and nieces, sorting out Mum's headstone.

This is your first year isn't it? Lots of hugs, I know too well how you must be feeling. For me it'll be 5 years tomorrow but in some ways it still seems like yesterday. The heart always aches at this time of year.

Thanks Paul - yes it will be. I know it comes to us all and will get easier as time goes by; at the moment I am still sorting things out because my sister is not really capable, so it's all very fresh. I'm fine most of the time but can have a wobble at the strangest of times, set off by the strangest of things.

(Also dealing with a Dad who seems to have given up and just wants to sit in his chair, go to sleep and not wake up - despite the doctor telling him his Prostate Cancer score is the lowest they could possibly record and he needs to get out and exercise.)

The shock of Mum suddenly collapsing and dying shook us into insisting that Dad have a full medical. It revealed that he had prostate cancer. At first he just wanted to give up and let the cancer run it's course but thankfully after much persuasion he agreed to receive the treatment. At the time I think his decision was more to save us the anquish than for his own benefit. He's now in the clear with the cancer, has picked himself up and remarried. Lot's of emotional thoughts and moments with all that but at least he's happy and well and that's all that matters really.

So yes expect your dad to feel very low for a while. But he's going to need lots of gentle and loving coaxing back into picking up the pieces of his life. What worked for us I think was impressing upon him how much he's still very much loved and needed as a dad and grampy.

Sorry posted with the best of intentions, but I know what you mean, Father's Day does the same to me.

Just spoke to my mum and i forgot her b'day from last week,im such a fkg dimwit Luckily me and Libby are going home next week so a meal/flowers and some serious crawling are in order

Ooooops. VERY Serious grovelling needed there

Big hugs. It's always difficult when there are reminders. Mum died 5 years ago and it does gradually become less raw. However, I was in Coles yesterday and someone walked past wearing her perfume and I welled up. Lucky I had 2 boisterous kids to distract me! It is weird the things that set it off.