Happy Mother's Day for yesterday. Hope everyone had a lovely time and that you were well looked after by your children. Thoughts to those who no longer have their mums or their children with them.
The Coming Home Part 2 reminded me of a past Mother's Day. I've been in London over the weekend - quite a change from the norm for me as I don't get away often - on my return yesterday the house was filled with a most fabulous scent. It was the smell of the blue hyacinth sitting on my kitchen windowsill.
The smell brings back memories of a happy Mother's Day in 1994. This was the first Mothering Sunday after having Emily - she had been in hospital for many weeks and had just escaped from PICU on to the general cardiac ward. Her dad had brought down the boys to see us and they had presented me with a cut blue hyacinth for Mother's Day. I'm sure it was probably purchased from the service station on the M6 but it is the thought that counts. The flower lived for an age on the windowsill of my tiny room in the parent's accommodation block, filling the room with its scent and greeting me when I walked in of an evening. The smell reminds me of that time and they are happy memories because she was getting better and I knew by then that I would be bringing her home.
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That's such a lovely story.
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