{"id":9432,"date":"2015-05-10T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T05:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=9432"},"modified":"2015-05-09T05:10:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T10:10:33","slug":"happy-mothers-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=9432","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mother’s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Mother’s Day<\/h1>\n

To all of you out there who are mothers, grandmothers and even great-grandmothers, I wish you all a Happy Mother’s Day.<\/p>\n

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Ruth (Neddo) Robertson May 13, 1930 – September 14, 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For me, I’ll be partaking in what has become a tradition since losing my mum in the fall of 2012. Now on Mother’s Day, I visit the cemetery and leave flowers at her grave.<\/p>\n

The cemetery celebrations started the day we buried my mum’s ashes. We sent her off with a song by her favourite singer – Vince Gill, and her favourite tipple – champagne. For the last few years of her life, I spent a lot of time out home doing as I called it “mother-sitting”. She introduced me to everyone who came into the house as “This is my daughter, Melanie. She’s writing a book.” So when I was offered my contract, it seemed right that I should celebrate there with her and my dad.<\/p>\n

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Celebrating with my contract, manuscript and champagne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How do you celebrate Mother’s Day?<\/p>\n

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Happy Mother’s Day To all of you out there who are mothers, grandmothers and even great-grandmothers, I wish you all a Happy Mother’s Day. For me, I’ll be partaking in what has become a tradition since losing my mum in the fall of 2012. 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