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Sunny Hochberg's avatar

I so enjoyed reading this! Beautifully written. As a daughter, mother, grandmother and great grandmother, I am filled with gratitude spending this weekend with my son, my only child. Despite a number of years struggling on his life’s journey, I couldn’t be happier or more proud of him. Happy Mother’s Day to all the other mothers who read this today! 🌸🪷❤️

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Phoenix's avatar

What a beautiful story, my eyes are filled with tears of happiness for your family. Blessings and tribulations often go hand in hand, and they can be sneaky buggers! It's 10pm on mother's day in Australia, and I had the loveliest one I have ever had, 22 years after my first. A beautiful card drawn by my 17 year old artist, depicting the two of us as mother and daughter unicorns, a lovely trip to the movies with my 18 year old special needs son, and lunch with both of them and my mum which my 2 nieces joined later on. I got cherry earrings, a unicorn tshirt and lots of love. My non verbal son even managed to say something which sounded like happy mother's day mum (to me at least). 17 year old made the best banana bread I think I've ever had, and it made my day that it wasn't carrot cake like last week (even though that was honestly the best carrot cake I've ever had, because ive never liked it).

It was a beautiful autumn day here, crisp but lots of sunshine, and two drivers in a row stopped and waited as my son and I crossed at the roundabout, when they didn't have to.

Just a really, really lovely day.

Did see my eldest too, briefly, was nice to wish her "happy almost mother's day", she's due with her first in the next couple of weeks and we can't wait! Life goes on..

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