Today would have been my mother’s 59th birthday, and it’s the first time she isn’t here to celebrate it. She died on October 25th 2007.

I think in a lot of ways I am still trying to come to terms with the fact that she isn’t there any more. A lot of the time, one of the kids will do something and I’m half way to the phone to let her know, even now! I’m so sorry that she is missing them grow up. I miss her advice, especially when one of them is not well- she was a doctor and always had helpful things to say if they were sick. She was SO delighted with Robbie and she would have been so excited to see him learning to crawl, pull up and develop. Plus we’ve only recently been able to 100% say that he definitely has brown eyes, which she would have been very pleased with! Ricky she always doted on too. He still asks about her and clearly misses her.

Here’s a pic taken a while ago in the garden she loved, with my brother Brian, Ricky and Sophie the dog-

Mum hadn’t been well for a long time and was constantly in a lot of pain. I hope she is very much at peace now.

Thinking of you today, Mum. Love you.

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