It's that time of year, Christmas 🎄

Dear Mum

It’s the 25th of November today and you know what that means, it’s Christmas decoration day in the Hodgson-Fopp house 🎄 It doesn’t feel right though; carols should be playing, champagne should be flowing and I should be on the phone with you (it’s what we always did, eh?).

Needless to say, my motivation this year isn’t what it usually is and I suspect it may take a little longer than usual. We will get there though, it may be next week, rather than this week but we will get there. It will make the Twiglets smile and that’s what it’s really about anyway.

I so desperately wanted to call you yesterday, I did call you but got your voicemail. We had some bad news about Aoife, she is very ill and unlikely to make it through the next few weeks. I will never forget the night we lost Boyd in 2008. I was at your house and you were at Jill’s. You came straight home, I was distraught, and I slept in your bed.

The days are long, the nights are often longer. There’s so much to tell you but that can wait for another day. We all miss you so incredibly much. I talk to Kel’s every day and we have a laugh and often a cry. It’s hard to believe it’s been 146 days since we lost you. It feels like yesterday, that I held your hand and told you that I Love You 💜

I miss you so much Mum.

I Love You 💜

Matt

P.S. I love this photo of all of us at Christmas.

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