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For everyone who has lost a loved one love and hugs and for my hubby John 2years last sep my mum who passed at the end of april and my very best freind chris two years new years day to the big C love Valxxx

Thanks Val - lovely to hear from you... have logged on to messenger a few times but keep missing you all.... HAPPY CHRISTMAS !!!! :-)

Hi Gaynor It was lovely to see what you wrote about our special friend Juney, On behalf of the Harem I would like to say, we will all be thinking of you and the family over the next few weeks. Lots of love to you all Val, Keith and Sandra, Joyce, Carol, Anne, Sandra and Jimmy and Catherine xx

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Hi Gaynor, Thanks for this thread,and I too will make it an extra special day for my family. We will carry on the tradition that my darling mum always upheld. Set the table with the best that you have,dress up with the best clothes you have. Raise your glass to absent and lost loved ones,and be glad of your family around you. This will be my first Christmas without Mum,I was one of the lucky ones,she was 94,so she was around me for a long long time. I will think of all of you,who has lost a dear one. God bless. Trish xx

Thanks Gaynor, God Bless Mum & Dad-love you both loadsxx

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Hya Gaynor I will be thinking of you on Christmas Day and the New Year,your Mum was a lovely special person. So you try and have a good time for her.

To all of our loved ones.... CHEERS !!! xxx

I'll join you in raising a glass Gaynor. To my nan and to OH's father and nan. We love and miss you so much! Fiona. x

Thats lovely Gaynor. I will be thinking of you I know when I lost my dad that first Christmas we said let's not spoil it for the kids. Everything going fine till we all sat down for dinner. Then it hit us. I know your mum wouldn't want any tears so you all be happy and think of the nice times . Take Care Love Germaine x

I’ve cooked the Xmas dinner since, forever and mum and dad were always over for the day. I won’t bore you but most Christmas days were tense and terse comments were made….but always later regretted. Unfortunately both mum and dad are dead now, funny; I’d do anything for a terse comment with them now. Mind you dad gave us a REEAALL laugh one year. Drunk, he fell asleep. Then halfway though a film he wakes up and calls out…. “….and there’s another thing”, pointing at the window. We all turned round to see what he was pointing at, and back again....rofpmsl…..he’d only dozed straight back off, flies undone, belly too full from grub. A truly fond memory!!! To all those no longer here I raise a glass Caz

I am sure that June will be with you at Christmas Gaynor, as I know my Mum and Dad are looking out for us at Christmas, to them too it was always a special time. God Bless June and all those of our families that have gone before us. Ann Glos

Let's keep this going.... I really believe our loved ones who have passed on before us will be around us on Christmas Day.... I'm sure my Mum will be and although we may not be feeling 100% I know my Mum will be holding us all close on Christmas morning when I know we will be feeling very emotional. 'Happy Christmas Mum' Thinking of you as always Love you so much CHEERS !!! Gaynor :-)

My mam died at 12.05 am on Boxing Day morning,we are sure she 'hung on in there' so to speak so we wouldn't have the extra grief of her anniversary being on christmas day.!!!! It will be 6 years this year and sometimes its like yesterday ,but it does seem to be getting better,we also lost my brother in law ,my cousin,s husband and my best friends sister all within three months just before and after that christmas.However we do and I hope we will continue to spend christmas like we always did with our families and friends, it changes each year due to births, marriages and sadly deaths,but on the whole we have the wonderful christmas that my mam ,and the others would want to be sharing with us.(And probably are ,somewhere) Brenda

I was very lucky... I spent every single Christmas of my life with my Mum 45 of them!... she really made Christmas special. I will miss her in every way but I know she will be with us even though we can't physically see her. To all the Mum's and Dad's out there and their families who miss them xxxx

Thank you Gaynor, This will be my third Christmas without my dad and second without mum, I miss them dreadfully, also our beautiful niece who lost her life this year, she was only 15, my prayers to my sister in law and all our family... I am not sure how we will get through this but have to for the sake of our younger children. Thoughts and prayers for everyone that has lost a loved one xxx

i will be thinking of you all as well as my own dad who died on 20th december in 1985

Gaynor,Thats lovely. To all of us who have lost a loved one, recently and some not so recent. raise a glass to them and remember them with love. Gaynor,My father always loved Christmas too,he was a big kid about it just like me,thats why I too always make Christmas special. Bless you Roxanne xx

Thank you, Gaynor. To your Mum ............ and to my Mum and Dad. For some strange reason I think I shall miss them more on my birthday this year, too. A toast - to our loved ones ... :-)