Mom / Mum / Mama / Móðir / 母亲 / мать / Moeder / Madre / 母
In honor of Mother’s Day (in most countries) this weekend, we would love to “meet” your moms.
Images from years gone past or just an iPhone snap that you took yesterday… please share with us!
(Maybe your photo will be our next Spotted. post!)
No photo handy, tell us a quick story about the woman you call mom or even just her name.
We’ll start:
Here is Rae Lou, Rachel’s mommy with (almost) all of her grandkids from last summer.
And here is Peta’s mum, Leah with baby Peta, 23 years ago.
We love you Mom and Mum! Happy Mother’s Day.
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Awwww, look at baby Peta! Rachel, you have such a beautiful family!
This is a photo of my mom, Rita, and I. I think i was 3 at the time…
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3488/3981479330_12dba05ab2_b.jpg
My beautiful mama last year when her and my sister came to visit us…
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3394/3558872464_1d8259eaac_b.jpg
I also need to add a photo of my wonderful Granny Tracy because she helped my mom raise me…
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Beautiful post, girls! this is my mother, lost in a happy moment with my son. Not so much happy moments for her lately, so this is a treasure for me. Happy mothers day to all of you, and all of yours!
This is me with my mom last year after I graduated from photography school. I love her dearly. There are no words to really describe how much. She is my safe place. Happy Mother’s day Mama!!
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This is my momma back in the day, and yes the hair gives away the year … 1969. She is self conscious about wrinkles these days so this is my ode to a younger, but just as beautiful and wonderful as the older, mom.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47007766@N03/4585958694/
My Mom teaching us to ski on Aspen Mountain, Colorado. She was the first woman ski patroller in Colorado, and is still involved with ski racing today. I am so proud of her. And we still all ski together.
My 91 year old Gramma passed away last Feb 8, this will be my moms and my first Mother’s Day without her. I am not looking forward to missing her so much that my heart will ache just a little bit more than it has for the past 3 months since she died. My Gramma was full of poise, grace, class and wanted nothing more than to leave her two daughters, six grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren with the stories and traditions of her heritage and childhood growing up in Cleveland’s Little Italy Neighborhood in the 1920′s and 30′s. Being Italian was “the greatest thing to be”, according to her, there was no better nationality in the world. She regaled us every year with the stories of Christmases where you got an orange, some nuts and a dime! And my great grandfather and great great granfather were wealthy, a dime bought alot of things for a kid back then. I could fill this whole page with the stories of how my grandma baked bread for the neighborhood in the brick oven in the backyard that my grampa and his brother built for her, or during the feast of the assumption in august, they would start cooking weeks in advance for the five day long festival. But this sunday,, my first Mothers Day without “my grammy” i will bake the coolies she was “famous” for , fill my kitchen with that familiar smell, and raise my wine glass in a toast to her wonderful life and honor her on Mother’s Day………
My wonderful mother at my daughter’s (her granddaughter’s) engagement party. She is a strong and supportive woman to her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. We all love her to bits!
sorry to hear of your loss. thank you for sharing your story with us!
Doesn’t Peta look like her Mum? And I love the photo of Rachel’s Mom (see I said Mom, not Mum!), she looks so happy and proud with all her grandchildren. Beautiful!!
My Mum and I talk everyday, and always have. The thing I love the most about my Mum is how much she loves my children. They are her world, and they are also my world so I suppose we have a lot in common.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohsewpretty/4586306074/
OMG – I love the pics!! Rach – your mother rocks. Loving her pant suit!!!! Look at her. She looks so happy with all of the kiddies. And check you and your mum out, Peta! Thanks for sharing!! xoxo j
My Mum was only 16 when she had me. So now at 27 I have a 43 year old mum!!
Here she is back then! Look at the hair! (my grandfather was a photographer) :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45825410@N06/4586362904/
This was taken last year with all my siblings: http://www.flickr.com/photos/45825410@N06/4586362784/in/photostream/
I want to say that we have a great relationship but I’m just always learning. I spent a lot of time apart from her as a young girl and it seems we’re playing catch up now.
Thanks Mum for working hard to bring me up!!
whoops. Don’t know where the picture went. Here’s the picture of my Mom with my sister and I skiing in Aspen Colorado in 1972. I was two. Hopefully the picture will work this time…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dqmountaingirl/4586185830/sizes/l/
Here is my Mom and my son (her only grandchild).
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1657011616&v=photos#!/photo.php?pid=777567&id=1657011616
My mom has gone through a lot in the last 6 months medically. So to have captured this photo a few weeks ago just melted my heart. I had a tough pregnancy with Ethan and she wanted to be a grandma so bad. No matter what she has had to go through these past 6 months just seeing Ethan and watching Mickey Mouse (what they are watching) a thousand times always brings her a smile. She was a single mom since I was 10 and I tell you this lady is my hero. Thank You for giving a shout out the Mom’s and Grandmother’s.
My Mom hates taking pictures. I do not have a nice picture of her or of the two of us, because she always fights the idea. More than that, I’ve been living abroad for more than 10 years, and so I see her in person only every 2 years or so. Although it’s not the same, I call her several times a week and I feel like we keep in touch well, considering that there is an ocean in between. Growing up, I never thought that I was being instilled with her values every day, because she rarely lectured me (she did about school though, I had to get straight As), and all of her teaching was done by example. We’re flying back home to visit our families next week, and for the first time, now I am a Mom. This time I’ll make sure that I take a good picture with my Mom and with my 10 month old son.
Thank you for sharing your pictures, Rachel and Peta.
My mum is called Rita. She is my rock. Here she is with my Dad and my son Josh…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34484279@N00/4532504164/sizes/l/
This year will be my first “official” Mother’s Day with my Ma. She adopted me last year (I was 34 and she was 69). Apparently, you are never too old to need a mother, nor too old to give up on the dream of having one someday. Here’s a self-portrait I captured of the two of us the weekend of our adoption party: http://www.littlebirdphoto.com/personal-work/magically-appearing-ma/3626133
Great photo, Rachel! And thanks for adding the “almost” – I see that Brian is missing. Here are my moms:
My mother:
My grandmother:
My great grandmother:
I hope I did this right, am I supposed to use HTML?
vicki we need the html! and yes, there is one missing from that shot. too bad brian was not there!
my daughter and I
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This is a photo of my mom and I and my dog from a few years ago. At the last minute, my friend bailed out on our weekend camping trip. With only an hour’s notice, my mom dropped everything and joined me instead. This photo makes me so happy.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfcreeker/2922541978/in/photostream/
my beautiful mother
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this is a picture of my youngest daughter and my mom. Making cookies about 6mos. before my mom passed away. I’m always asked who Lydia looks like…her older brother and sister and I have blond hair. She’s my mom—through and through. And she reminds me of her every day.
I just happened upon your site and loved this post. Even though the date has passed, I thought I’d share a couple different posts about my mom:
Loving her granddaughter: http://marcelacamille.blogspot.com/2010/05/joy-in-her-posterity.html
And a couple four-generation ones that I love. One with me as the baby and one with me as the mother:
http://marcelacamille.blogspot.com/2008/05/celebrating-motherhood.html
You have beautiful work!
Both pictures are gorgeous! I love the first one. The plants are all so green, behind all those happy people! I also love Peta’s smile, in the second one!
Where have you gone? No new posts since mother’s day! i really loved this blog!
What’s going on girls. Are you giving up this place?