Mother’s Day Began With Grief—And That’s Why It Still Matters

One mother reflects on the original meaning of Mother’s Day, the ache of losing her own mother, and raising a child with complex medical needs.

There is a silence in my house the night before Mother’s Day that feels almost sacred.

It isn’t the stillness of rest—it’s the pause before a memory opens.

The soft inhale before the wave crashes.

In that quiet, I become both daughter and mother.

I lost my own mother. And I became a mother to a child born with needs so complex that every breath has fe…