Happy FBLS, folks! But most importantly, Happy Mother’s Day!
And while we ourselves will be showered with love and attention from our own families, least we forget sending some gratitude over to our own mothers or those who have been mother figures to us.
Living in Japan for almost 8 years during my single, career-free days, I would always phone up my Ma to let her know I was thinking of her. There’d be tears of homesickness, which were largely due to me desperately missing her Indonesian home cooking. (The lady sure knows how to make a mean Nasi Goreng).
Then, the conversation would somehow steer towards when I was coming home to settle down and get married.
*Crickets chirping*
Strangely, the phone connection would turn “haywire” or I suddenly had to go.
Well, we all know the rest of the story.
I eventually did come home, found myself a husband and Ma got the grandchildren she so desperately wanted.
Interestingly, Telstra recently conducted a survey to look into the calling habits of Australians and found that almost half of young adults aged between 18 – 15 phone their mums everyday with more than one in 10 calling because they need something – the kind of phone call mums lease like receiving.
The research also discovered that nine out of 10 mums would rather their kids call ‘just for a chat’ with older mums (aged 65 and over) twice as likely to want their children to call to ‘check up’ on them than any other age group.
This year, my Ma’s visiting us so no more awkward conversations or imaginary crappy phone connections.
But, we still chat on the phone (My mum was born with a phone to her ear). Maybe not everyday but often enough to know the love is there.
To celebrate Mother’s Day, Telstra have graciously provided me with 4 double pass movie tickets to giveaway to my readers!
- All you have to do is:
- Leave a comment on this blog post telling me: What’s been the greatest piece of advise your mum (or any mother figure in your life) has given you?
- Subscribe to With Some Grace by Email
- And because it’s FBLS, follow With Some Grace on Facebook
Terms and conditions:
- This giveaway is only open to Australian residents
- Closing date for entries is Sunday, 19th of May.
- The winner will be contacted via email on the following Wednesday.
- If the winner does not reply to my email within 24 hours, another winner will be chosen.
- Entries will be judged on merit and decision of the winner will be final.
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* Not a deal breaker but how about giving a shout out to a new page you found ? Doesn’t cost much. Give tenfold, get hundred back, I say.
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Grace happy mama’s day darling!! The best piece of advice my mum ever gave me was to find and value my sense of self. If I do that I can do anything, and I will always be real/authentic in life – so matter what happens I can feel good that I’m being pure me … Mistakes, wins and all. xxx
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Happy Mothers Day Grace xxx
When I was a kid my mum would always tell me to “Stop worrying about what other people think”….so true!!
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Best advice my mum ever gave me is when you’re doing something and it’s just not working, stop, go have a cup of coffee and come back to it later. It will all work out just fine then. I have to say that most of the time it’s true! Happy Mother’s Day Grace!
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My mum taught me how to put a doona cover on the doona WITHOUT having to crawl inside it and try to squash it into the corners. I’d been doing it the hard way for years before I finally asked the question! I reckon little things like that are underestimated – the valuable titbits our mothers pass on and we often take for granted! Happy Mother’s Day to you Grace 🙂
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Happy Mother’s Day Grace 🙂 Have a wonderful day with your family – so lucky to have your mum around – missing mine terribly today – can’t wait to have her here next month xxx
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One of the best pieces of advice she gave me was if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all – I haven’t been punched in the head yet! Happy Mothers Day Grace! xxx
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My mum lives about an hour away from me. I see her once a week and we talk every day on the phone. I blogged about her today, being Mother’s Day and all.
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Mum used to always say “you can’t please all the people all the time! ” in response to the bitchiness I was trying to understand when I was in Year 8 that happened amongst teenage girls. There was always going to be someone who didn’t like something I did or said, so just I should just be MYSELF and get on with things!! I guess it seems quite blunt, but certainly true! 🙂 Happy Mothers Day Grace xoxo
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“To listen to and trust my heart as it is a perfect match for my baby and will guide me well.”
Happy Mothers Day Grace!
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Hope you’ve had a great mother’s day Grace! The best advice I ever received from my mum was to go with the flow and accept everything as it comes. It has been very practical advice throughout my life!
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Happy Mothers Day Grace. The best advice my mum gave me was “travel the world” and ” get an education” & “don’t gossip about other people” not sure if I achieved all those things in the right order but my mum is a wise old duck and I think I will take her to the movies if I won. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. PS. Thanks for the referral you gave the health company about me. Will have to wait to see if anything happens.
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Be nice to everyone and count your blessings.
I never forget her words and I am incredibly blessed by all the nice things she still does for me.
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A little bit late on the link up this week as we had such a busy day yesterday – Happy Belated Mother’s Day Grace and hope you had a fab day!!!
Best piece of advice from my Ma-Mi -> mainly because I am quite a worrier and a pessimist – she always tells me you can’t control what people say or their actions, the only thing you have control over if what you do, what you say and your own thoughts, so don’t bother about what people say to you as long as you are true to yourself. You are always a success in my eyes and I never see you as a disappointment in any way. My dad and I are always very proud of you. (The last 3 sentences she said to me when I didn’t do well in my Year 10 exam and I did not want to go to school anymore)
Hmmm! This makes me really think today! I would have to say…i had to walk away for awhile to think about his one. First of all I have to say my real mum didn’t really say or teach me a lot but every know and then she showed me that she loved me. So I have to take the credit from my other “extended Mum” who I lived with for 2 years while I was in high school. (I was not allowed to live with my Mum as I was thrown out of home.) This lady gave me a lot of love and security and WISDOM! She was fantastic and her husband was lovely too! The best advice that she gave me was to always FORGIVE even when it seems impossible – always find it in your heart to forgive. That has always stuck with me!
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I can’t really think of anything Mum has repeatedly told me enough for it to stand apart. My Dad though, did say something that resonates with me today. Carpe Diem (seize the day).
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Hope you had a lovely Mother’s Day, Grace.
The best advice my mum gave me was when Ashleigh was six weeks old. She was still quite small (around 3kg) and after bottle-feeding her expressed breast milk since birth, I wanted to try breast-feeding. But I couldn’t BELIEVE how much it hurt. I was sitting there with Ashleigh feeding, tears streaking down my cheeks, and mum said…
Not ‘you poor thing’. Not ‘why don’t you just use formula?’ Not any mollycoddling words of love and support. She said ‘suck it up, princess’. It might sound harsh, but it wasn’t. It was EXACTLY what I needed to hear at that EXACT moment in time and from then on, I was a breastfeeding machine!
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Guess Mother’s Day hasn’t ended. Hope yours was a good one.
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