Mother’s Day

May 10, 2026

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers. Children, may your mothers live a long, healthy, and happy life. Cherish your mother while you have her.

I lost my mother to Alzheimer’s in September of 2024. My loss is still too recent for Mother’s Day to be a good day for me.

The ads pushing me to buy something for my mother, are a blow to my heart. At least Amazon allows you to turn off ads for Mother’s and Father’s Day.

Mother’s Day has become a time for remembering my mother, grandmothers, and my Great-Aunt Hazel. My Great-Aunt Hazel was loved as if she were one of my grandmothers.

I take time to remember the stories they told, the lives they lived, and the love they gave me. I do this with the love in my heart that I have for them. I have such happy memories of my grandmothers and Great-Aunt Hazel, and I find comfort in them. They live on in my heart.

With my mother, I struggle. I try to remember the earlier days, before Alzheimer’s began the long goodbye. It is hard to get past the last eight years of her life and remember who she was before. While she lives in my heart with love, sorrow lives next to the love. One day, I hope she only lives in my heart with love.