Happy Mothering Sunday......

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A quick hello today to wish all mothers a Happy Mothering Sunday. I hope you enjoyed your day and were pampered as you should be but then again it should be Mother’s Day every day......
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In a way I had two Mothering Sundays because last week I received my card and present from my son. Bless him, he dropped in from work and said ‘Happy Mother’s Day for tomorrow’ and promptly gave me a card and present accompanied with a kiss. He thought it was that day or should I say Andy did for he phoned Christopher to remind him...lol...

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Bridget Doyle nee Paisley

My paternal grandmother

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A Mother's Love Is A Blessing

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An Irish boy was leaving

Leaving his native home

Crossing the broad Atlantic

Once more he wished to roam

And as he was leaving his mother

Who was standing on the quay

She threw her arms around his waist

And this to him did say

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A mother's love's a blessing

No matter where you roam

Keep her while she's living

You'll miss her when she's gone

Love her as in childhood

Though feeble, old and grey

For you'll never miss a mother's love

Till she's buried beneath the clay.

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From the song of the same name

by Thomas P Keenan
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This is an appropriate poem for my father because my grandmother did indeed stand on the quayside to see her son leave his native land for England. Sadly I never knew my paternal grandmother but felt I ‘knew’ her from the many times my father spoke of her......Take care until next time...lol...

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When you Educate a Man you Educate an Individual
When you Educate a Woman you Educate a whole Family
When you Educate a Woman
You Create a Nation.....

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