Hi , one of the really positive things we did with our parents is talk about their childhood, it really helped to show how far we had come as a family in just two generations and really helps us to appreciate what we have now.
My mum passed away from lung cancer 3 years this Christmas. I miss her face, our conversations, her stories, her love for me, all of the things that you would expect.
I recorded my mums voice secretly so that our conversation would sound natural, I do find this hard to listen to because I can hear the rasp in her voice from the lung cancer but I have to say that I am so glad that I have this because I will always have this and it reminds me that she was real, she was here.
Something that happens to you when you lose a loved one is that you feel that you have lost something of your past, it maybe memories that only you have both made together or maybe questions that you never thought to ask at the time but will never know the answer to now that they've gone
About a year after mum passed I was walking through a Garden centre one with gifts and books and I found a book that took my breathe away, I wish that I had seen this when my mum was unwell, I've looked on the internet and found a link for the book. You can get them for mums, dads, sisters etc, I wish that I had asked my mum to write this for me XX
