On My First Motherless Mother’s Day
3 min readMay 9, 2021
I’m OK and not OK
Well, here it is: my first mother’s day since mum died. I’m lost for words and yet I feel like I have lots to say.
Strange.
I had a few friends ask me the day before Mother’s Day how I was feeling about it. I thanked them for their thoughts and said ‘I’m OK’. But then I woke up crying.