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does every Christmas now is that I can't buy my mum one of the nice 'mum' cards I see...and that I won't get a 'daughter' card.

I know a lot of you are in the same boat, and do so sympathise...didn't want to say this near Christmas and be gloomy so will say now, that I will be thinking of those who don't get that card this year.

Rose xx

Same for me with my Dad Rose. Sad isn't it? But at least we can think of them and toast them at Christmas.

I will toast both my parents (have to toast Mum in Orange Juice as she was T total all her life!!!) Will toast Dad definitely, he died on Christmas day 2001, 8 years, doesn't seem possible. 5.30 Christmas day i will lift a glass to him. (he wasn't T total!!)

I have felt like that about Christmas since I was a child, I did try and make the effect when I had my own children, I put a tree up till the kids asked for one the eldest said he thought we were JW..... I detest the time of year..and I cant wait till I am able to board a plane and sod off for 2 weeks and lie on a beech....youngest is 18 next year...so it wont be then as her Bday is the 23rd Dec,

Rose my dad still gets my memory pressie by way pressie money goes to childrens charity,even birthdays ,fathers day ,he would have liked that he didnt like flowers.so no card but something that keeps it special....

I light a candle for my mum and kind of 'dress the Christmas tree ' especially for her...she loved the tree and the lights but, lol , she hated Christmas :) always said "it doesn't seem like Christmas does it? ", mainly I think because when she was a child it was a really big family thing...all of the aunts, uncles and cousins and enough food to feed an army...

My mum and dad used to
come to us for christmas and stay until just after the new year
we lost dad back in 1975 but mum still used to come and we would have a lovely time .. then mum passed away in 1994 ..
even OH still misses mum, he would say do you remember when
mum done this or mum done that, she used to have us in stiches .
but yes we raise our glasses to both of them every christmas ..
Hazelx

Christmas doesn't bother me so much. It's New Year that I find hard. I feel we're moving on another year and leaving my dad further behind.

Sue xx

I was thinking only this morning about the year my Mum let on that she'd always wanted a full size drum kit, well, couldn't do that so went out and bought her one of those kiddies tin ones with the two little wooden stick thingies, she loved anything silly like that.

We lost her 15 years ago next month, but it's remembering her through little things like that, so silly at the time, that make us smile.

Barb