I HATE Mothers Day!
Am I the only one? My mother is long deceased. My ex-wife took off years ago, leaving me with 3 kids to raise by myself. I really miss my mom. I always get so depressed on mothers day. 
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I'm so sorry...
I hope your children love you bunches!
My mother's birthday falls right around Mother's Day every year. She refuses to allow the words "Mother's Day" to be spoken in her household.
She's almost as adamant about the word "Birthday," but not quite.
-- Mal
I lost my mother in the fall of 2011, so this is my third year without her, and all the commercials and publicity surrounding Mother's Day really get to me, too. 
Maybe it's the "holiday," but I've been thinking about it a great deal lately. My mother's death was an accident, fell down the stairs in the dark when the power went out in these parts during Hurricane Irene, was in ICU in Albany (NY) Medical Center for three weeks after that, visited her everyday and still had such hope, which probably makes it harder. I often think of what else I could have done.
How wonderful that you have your daughter, know that must help a lot, and I imagine it's hard for her, too. Take good care of yourself and do whatever it is that helps you feel better. Just know that you're not alone... 
i know what you mean about wondering what else you could have done. i played that tormenting song over and over for a long long time. every once in awhile i still play it but mostly i have managed to forgive myself for not being able to foresee or predict the future.
my heart aches for her with a pain i have never known. i love her beyond words and miss her just as much. it's astounding to realize the intensity of the bonds we are capable of creating with others. my mom always said i was "overly emotional" and i had a dismissive tendency to chalk it up to having a "poet's soul." but these past years? i never knew these waters ran so deep.
sometimes i feel she is watching me, shaking her head sadly, sympathizing with my plight, and yet amazed to realize how much she is loved.
thank you for your warmth and hugs. you're not alone either.
My mother is deceased and my only pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.
I hate being wished "happy Mother's Day."
It's a reminder of everything I don't have.
I speak to my mother once a year (long crappy story) so Mother's Day is depressing to me. I love my kids dearly and they always do something fun for me on Mother's Day but there's always a little pain along with it.
about all the people wishing her a happy mother's day. So, I wished her a Happy Evil Stepmother's Day, and she appreciated that (she's a stepmother, but childfree otherwise.) 
I was also a single father. I was more of a mother to my daughter than her "real" mother ever was with some isolated exceptions. I raised her from kindergarten through HS. Hey, there's a shitload of us "male mothers" out there that seldom get any credit. I suppose I'll get reamed by the anti-masculinity crowd for saying shit like that, but fuck 'em.
Happy fucking mother's day to ya. 
My own mother was completely out of her tree and pretty much destroyed me with how she "raised" me.
My mother-in-law is a better person in a lot of ways, but she's got tons of emotional issues and won't seek/accept help. Talking to her is a huge exercise in frustration, not to mention often depressing.
I just give up.
