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Mothering Sunday 2016

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Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
– Erich Fromm

Mothers Day 2016

Jean’s Mother’s Day, photo by PH Morton

Mothering Sunday 2016

Today is Mothering Sunday in the UK and also at some parts of the world.  We at GlobalGranary would like to wish those celebrating this auspicious occassion  a happy and loving Mother’s Day.

As has been a tradition with us since my son was born many years ago, we celebrate mother’s day annually. (Well I did carry him for more than nine months and as my own mother used to say ‘giving birth is being one foot in the grave! hahaha).

This year’s celebration is no different.  It just gets better.

My grandson, Nathan, secretly told my husband that he has a little present for his Grandma for mother’s day, see above photo.  Thank you, Nathan.  Love, love them.

I would like to thank my beloved son, James, my lovely daughter-in-law, Stacey and my adorable grandson, Nathan for the presents and lovely card.  I love them.  I love my scatch card as well.  Yippeee I won £2.00; I can feel that it is only a matter of time before I win the £100K.  Fingers’ crossed 😉

I love receiving presents but there is nothing to replace being surrounded with family during the course of the year and I am happy to say that my loving family is always there for me, in time of joy and sometimes sadness (infrequent 🙂 )

To those who have not been intouch with their mothers yet.  Give them a call.

I know the Philippines celebrate Mother’s Day the same date as the USA but all the same, I would like to wish my mother a Happy Mothering Sunday.

Cheers.

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Peter and I love this little drawing of our beloved Nat-nat of his ‘Family Morton’. He’s five and learning to write and read. I am so impressed with his skill and talent. I think we are going to have a boy genius here.

I saw the film, Imitation Game, which is about Alan Turing, a mathematics genius, whose war accomplishment is said to have shorten the second world war,WWII, by two years and saved 14 million people from becoming casualties of war. The young brilliant Alan Turing used to painstakingly separate his peas from his carrots which reminds me of our little Nat-nat, who is rather pernickety with his food.

He likes his food, don’t get me wrong, but he wants his dinner served according to his predilection or in a certain way. He doesn’t want things touching each other. 😉 He wants his peas in one corner, his chicken nuggets in another corner and his chips at another side and not to mention his tomato sauce pooled in the middle, not drizzled in the chips or chicken, otherwise he would refuse to eat. Poor Stacey, his mother, had to take all these into consideration when preparing our little angel’s din-dins

This is family.  Looking after each other, for better or for worst.  Blood is thicker than water.  Proverbs and sayings have been coined for thousands of years with regards to families.

Nathan, age 5, family Photo by PH Morton

Nathan, age 5, family
Photo by PH Morton

Mind you, family can also be a source of so much grief, a la Romeo and Juliet or the late Diana, Princess of Wales with her relations with the Windsor Family so much so that the Queen, herself, grimly admitted in November of 1994 that it was annus horribilis for her. 🙁

 

You see much more of our children once they leave home.
– Lucille Ball