So it is Mother's Day here in the UK today.

Ya know, every year we go through the motions, and say our thanks, but it takes time to understand what someone really is to us, and over time, we learn what it took to bring us up to who we are today.

I am so damn lucky that I was really close to my folks. Not everyone got to enjoy the experience I have had, and that is a sad state of affairs. We are all different and have been through our different circumstances, it are these that make us who we are. I have learnt much in my time speaking and talking to others who had different life experiences.

I am greatful for the family life I had, and right now, still lucky enough to be able to spend cherished time with my mom, so today I get to tell her how very much I love her.

I chose to use words on paper today, and hope it is ok to share this with you.

My mom is a special kind of woman.

She’s very unassuming, humble and meek

She’s everything you expect in a shining example.

Patient, she’s had all the time I ever needed.

Diligent, I’ve never had to go without clean clothes

Dinner on the table, a clean room, a friendly smile.

She’s faithful, always there when the chips are down.

Loyal, she’d step into the ring for her kids if she had too

When it came to family my mom knew we were her’s.

Love without conditions, encouragement to be all we could.

Never left alone, never forgotten to fend for ourselves

When it came down to it, we knew we could always turn to mom.

She does not understand our appreciation and adoration.

She sees herself as just a normal woman; simply a mom as required

Yet as I have grown, I’ve learnt not every mom was so great.

Mom would go without to make sure I had.

She would walk miles to be there when I performed at school

To see her look proud of me only made me proud to be her son.

In my selfish moments, she never turned against me.

When I was wrong and did terrible things, I never feared losing her love

She forgave seventy times seven, and a lot more beyond that.

Never a birthday forgotten, never a day without a kind word.

Christmas as a child meant Santa’s gift never failed to appear under the tree

Yet truth be known, it was her that sort to hear the squeal of an excited child.

Nights when I was ill, sat on my bed with a cloth to mop my brow.

At my bedside through weeks spent in painful recovery in hospital

I never knew till now how much she was there for me in every way.

How can I not appreciate, cherish and love her dearly?

Who would not look at a mother so committed to her children’s joy

And not see a special woman, a perfect example of what a mom really is?

Words are simply not adequate to say thank you.

No measure of action I can take could ever truly express my gratitude

Nothing I say will ever been seen through her eyes, in the way I see it.

So I can only simply say, it is well; your job is done.

You are my mother, a woman I am so immensely proud to know

You are the mom I was blessed to be born too, the mom I love.

Always I will know these things, and though you might not understand.

You should know, your sacrifice, your love, your effort, your hard work

Will never be forgotten, it will never be lost.

Happy Mothers Day.

To all you special woman out there, mothers that might understand these words I share, a very happy Mother's Day to you today. May you feel loved and very special as you are.