40 Ways to Honor Your Mom After She Has Passed Away

By Julie Hoag

Being without your mom on Mother's Day is super hard. It just is and if this is you too, I am so very sorry for your loss. Moms are irreplaceable. Prior to Mother's Day, many people are shopping for gifts and making plans to spend the day with their moms, but those who have a mother who has passed away can't do that. Advertisements for what to buy your mom flood the market and are constant reminders of that tragic loss. People who have children can celebrate Mother's Day with their own kids, but they still are missing a giant piece of the day, their mom. Regardless, I think it's important to still celebrate the day. In this little book, I'm sharing ways to honor your mom on Mother's Day after she has passed away to help those who have lost their mom, like me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Julie A Hoag Julie Hoag Writer LLC
• Release date: Jun 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201538279

Julie Hoag

Julie Hoag is a fiction and nonfiction author, blogger and influencer, and cookbook author. Her books are available on online sellers. Visit her website at juliehoagwriter.com

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Table of Contents:

Poem

Introduction

Chapter 1 Emotional Release

Chapter 2 Relational Help

Chapter 3 Food as Therapy

Chapter 4 Activities that Celebrate your mom

Chapter 5 Buy Things that Help Honor your mom

Chapter 6 Mother’s Day

Chapter 7 Donate in Memory of your mother

Chapter 8 Religious Acts

Afterword

About the Author

A Mother’s Fingerprint

Once her finger touched this painted fruit teapot,

just as mine does now,

a lifetime kept safe in the cabinet, it fills its spot.

Gingerly, I cradle it,

from someone it was passed down,

faint childhood memory serves me well.

Once her finger felt the ridge of the gold paint stripe down the handle’s swell,

protruding like a tear on my nose,

my heart puffs her knowing story to tell.

Once she held this unused pot, too precious for mere water,

perhaps she hugged it to her breasts.

I can hold it to mine now,

undusted, unwashed for thirty years on repeat,

a hug. I can still hold her fingerprint lines.

By Julie Hoag

Introduction

This list was created in response to my feelings of grief and loss after the death of my mother. Being without your mom on Mother's Day is super hard. It just is and if this is you too, I am so very sorry for your loss. Moms are irreplaceable. Prior to Mother’s Day, many people are shopping for gifts and making plans to spend the day with their moms, but those who have a mother who has passed away can't do that. Advertisements for what to buy your mom flood the market and are constant reminders of that tragic loss. People who have children can celebrate Mother's Day with their own kids, but they still are missing a giant piece of the day, their mom. Regardless, I think it's important to still celebrate the day. In this little book, I'm sharing ways to honor your mom on Mother's Day after