"Missing You at Christmas Mum" Glass Memorial Robin Heart Plaque with Tealight Holder

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To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Every year we meet Brian’s extended family for brunch on Christmas Eve – it’s a big family gathering. He was her first grandchild and she so wanted to be a gran, it breaks my heart he won’t remember her.

My doctor unhelfully I think said to me that people grieve until they get bored of grieving, I was thrown into my own crisis 3 months after she died as I received a cancer diagnosis and found that was all I could think about, rather than missing my mum so I don’t know if other than listening to you that I can help. I thought I understood how much I miss you until I realized I would have to celebrate Christmas without you this year. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. At Christmas, for instance, when people come together, the absence of friends or family can be more keenly felt. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.I celebrate my Grandparents now by putting their tree ornaments on our little hallway tree - I used to decorate their tree with them every year (even as an adult!

Nothing replaces a hug but hear the words your mum would say to you and that will help get you through.

But while trying to untangle my Christmas tree lights recently the full weight of my loss came crashing down. I lost my lovely, happy, fun mum to a brain hemorrhage in june and am dreaing Christmas but I have a 12 year old daughter who adored my mum (she lived with us) and I have to make the festive period fun for her. For the first few Christmases I just fucked off to Spain with DF and DB and avoided it all completely. But Christmas it’s just becoming unbearable again, to the point where I am breaking down in front of my children all the time (they are 3 and 1), feeling that excruciating pain and longing like I just have to see her, and just howling like a small child that I need my mum.

It will never have that sparkle which it once had even doing it all for the children isn't the same as she will never see it and they are all so young too- 5, 3 and 2. If the item comes direct from a manufacturer, it may be delivered in non-retail packaging, such as a plain or unprinted box or plastic bag.Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. and it’s all made worse than we had the most special Christmas planned two years ago and then she got sick just before and was in hospital suffering on Christmas Day and dead within a month. You can't bring them back but you can feel their presence, not in a woo way, but in yourself and how they shaped you. I don't know how the day is going to go/how I'll feel, but I just wanted to acknowledge her in some way.Last year my Auntie Pat, ( my dad’s cousin who I’m close to) came for the day, which was pleasant, although I struggled with Christmas Eve.