Treasure your Mum

If, like me, you are fortunate enough to have your Mum in your life you are indeed a lucky, lucky child.

My Mum is almost 97 years young and has been an inspiration to me all of my life.  She is a strong, fiercely independent woman. A woman who went through WWII with her husband in the army who enlisted on Valentine’s Day and was injured on Christmas Eve 1942 making it necessary for her to travel to Oxford from our small market town on the edge of the North York Moors.  This journey would be difficult enough these days on Christmas Eve…………………………can you begin to imagine what it was like in wartime over 70 years ago?  Only a strong person could make that journey.

She brought my two brothers and I up to know the difference between right and wrong, to care for others less fortunate than ourselves and most of all to TRY; try with our school work, to try with everything we undertook.  If we tried, it wasn’t important if we then failed at least we had tried.

Most things in our house were handmade.  Mum made the clothes we wore, the rugs under our feet, the lampshades above us, the curtains covering the windows; if it was possible to be handmade then it was.  The love she felt for her family was there for all to see.

Many of the children in the care of Children in Distress have been abandoned by their Mothers. BUT in many cases it wasn’t because their Mothers didn’t love them, it was because their Mothers DID love them that they abandoned them.  The medication costs for a disabled or poorly child in Romania are beyond the reach of many families so rather than let that child remain untreated and ultimately die, their Mothers abandoned them into our care so they could receive the treatment they needed.

If your Mum is in heaven and you are unable to send her flowers on this Mothering Sunday, perhaps you would consider making a donation to Children in Distress in honour of your Mum and therefore give hope to other Mums who have entrusted us with the care of their children.  Please go to our website www.childrenindistress.org and press the donate button in honour of your Mum.  Thank you!

Treasure your Mum; she will love you like no other person.