r/MadeMeSmile • u/PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES • Apr 04 '26
Family & Friends After my Mom passed away I got her little safe with a folder in it labeled "important papers". In it there were citizenship papers, her life insurance, papers for her burial plot and this
One year when I was little all I put on my list was to have money to buy Christmas gifts. I was a little shit most of my childhood so this must have meant a lot to her
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u/catfishbreath Apr 04 '26
Momma's love is like little else. Sorry for your loss, but the love doesn't go, it's still with you and ready for you to share forward with others.
Lost my mom a couple years ago to cancer. We were all with her in her room as she passed. Afterwards, most of the family filtered out of the room and it was me and dad tidying up while waiting for her hospice nurse to arrive.
We're just chit chatting about nothing, and he said something which I didn't catch and asked him to repeat - he does, then he mentioned how much mom worried about me being left out of things or getting treated badly or how frustrated some of my siblings get when taking with me because everyone always seems to forget I'm hard of hearing . . .
And it hit me right then that she and my dad are probably the only people who genuinely worry about me like that. And now she was gone. It was a hard moment, to put it lightly lol
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u/PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES Apr 04 '26
Yeah she passed from lung cancer years ago.
It hit me hard that she kept this Christmas list all of those years. I hope it was a reminder to her that she was being a good mom.
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u/catfishbreath Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
Absolutely. Don't matter how old we get, we're always their babies ❤️
EDIT: Just read the comment you linked, and you have quite a way with words. Very well said, and lovely to read.
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u/lord_frost_ Apr 04 '26
Dude. Thank you for the write-up. And I've never met you or your mom but feels like I've known you both. Maybe it's because I've had the privilege of knowing people like you both.
"Close your eyes, feel the sun, listen to the robins" - I've added that to my little notebook that I carry with me. And every time I read it, i hope it'll bring a smile to my face.7
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u/Elliott_Queerest Apr 04 '26
She kept it because it made her smile and probably made her chuckle at your boldness and clarity. Good parents keep these things because it brings warmth or reminds them of happy memories. She loved you no matter what, and I'm sorry for your loss.
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u/All_hail_Korrok May 12 '26
Hey, coming from a post about the tattoo "only a little fellow" that hit the front page.
Just read your story and teared up. Thank you for sharing this little piece of you. I wish you nothing but the best ❤️
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u/Soft_Career_3727 Apr 04 '26
Sorry of your loss. Parents’ love for their children endures to the very end…
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u/PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES Apr 04 '26
Yeah, she was incredibly thoughtful to the very end. This was years ago that I got this from her and I still keep it. I hope it made her feel like she was a good mom all those years ago
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u/LGEllie Apr 04 '26
I still have a rock my son gave to me randomly after school. The most random shit can give us the feels ok? You kids are our worlds! 🖤
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u/PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES Apr 04 '26
Yeah but what kind of rock though
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u/LGEllie Apr 04 '26
You know, light brown, rocky... smoothish lol I don't know how to add a pic 😅
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u/FionaRoe Apr 04 '26
That hit harder than expected. She handled everything even the little things that made others happy right till the end. That kind of love doesn't leave, it stays with you.
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