I feel the same way. I share in your first without mom. I want to stay in bed and veg. I know she would not be happy with that. No one is really around to make me do any different.

It's good that you have your children with you for that added push. They want to celebrate you too. I have kids but they are older and 7000miles away.

I hope your children make you feel celebrated like you celebrated your mom.

I share your pain. It will be my first mothers day without my mom. I always celebrated this day with her. I also have children and family members who want to celebrate mothers day but I feel that I can't do it this year without my mom.

I will be getting her flowers to remember her on this day.

I hope that you have a good mother's day and continue to honor your mom.

This will also be my first Mother's Day without my mom, who died very unexpectedly 10 months ago. She was only 61. I am still in shock and have PTSD from what happened, so seeing all of the Mother's Day commercials and cards and what not has had me feeling upset all week.

Does anybody have any ideas for what I could do to honor my mother with her not being here? Honestly, it would be for my dad, since it will be his first Mother's day without his wife / mother of his children. I almost think not acknowledging Mother's Day would be best. I don't like this stupid holiday anymore because it's a slap in the face to all who have recently lost their mothers. I feel like mashing all of the mother's day cakes at the grocery store.

Show videos of her, when she was younger, alive, well, healthy vibrant and laughing! Nothing brings them back, if only for the duration of the clips, quite like moving video, hearing the sound of their voice, enjoying their sparkling wit!

This will be my 4th Mother's day without my mom. Every year is difficult and I too have lost my excitement for celebrating. I have children too, but I didn't realize how much Mother's day for me was about My mother and not myself. I guess that's in line with what my mom taught me about making things about others and not myself. However, I've decided to take the day and try to remember what it felt like to give her a hug, the sound of her voice, the funny things she used to say and all the people who she impacted.

I've decided to give myself a "pass" to cry if I feel like it. I think I'll always miss my mom, especially as I get older and learn more and more about those things she tried to teach me, but I didn't understand until I started having more life experiences. In a way I feel like she's kind of with me as I keep learning from her example and teachings as I walk through life's journey. Of course life goes on and regular days have become easier and easier, but I think Mother's Day will always be tough for me and I will never look at the special day the same again.

((hugs)) during this time and know the pain of losing your mom is confirmation of how much amazing love you shared.

Thanks to all -I know Im not alone.It seems as though the greater our moms were(mine was an angel) -the deeper the hurt....

It has been two years since my mom passed. Has been very difficult. Have tried to keep busy so I won't focus. There are still moments thoughts of her slip in my mind. Praying and knowing I am not alone has been helpful. She was a single parent and many difficultis but seldom complained. Has stood by me though good and bad decusions. Was very lucky to have the mother I had. My heart goes out to people in pain who no longer have their mothers to celebrate today with.

This was my 7th Mothers Day without my mom and it is still just as painful as the first. I often wonder if there is something wrong with me for feeling as if I can't go on without her, although clearly I have gone on...gotten remarried and had another baby...but living without my mom is the single most painful and single hardest thing ever!! They say time heals all wounds, well time has been no friend of mine :(

This is my first mother's day without my younger4 daughter. She died April 19, 2015. I'm having a hard time finding an ACTIVE group online of other parents who have suffered this loss. I am disabled and live alone. I am unable to drive so the computer is my main connection with the world.

My name is vader.I am 67 years old and I am so happy that some people feel the way I do.I have been without my mother since 2003.My mom was 84 ,in ill health and in a nursing home.I tried on Mothers Day..but it was so hard and i cried..I do miss her and i do miss her advice.Theres noone who can advise me now and I wish that she was still here.