They’re all special, so tell yours that!
CHRONICLE
FOR Mother’s Day this year we want to celebrate all the mums in your family who’ll get a card this year - just like this four-generation family, who are all at the same school!
Little Jacob Davison, three, attends the nursery where mum Janine Tottle, 27, is a nursery assistant, grandma Deborah Ainsworth, 50, is a teaching assistant and greatgrandma Jean Ainsworth, 68, is admin assistant in the office.
We met them all at West Pelton Primary School and its Little Ducklings Nursery, near Stanley just before Mother’s Day to photograph them all together - and ask what their respective mums mean to them.
Jacob said of mum Janine: “She’s beautiful.” And he said he loves her “to the moon and back” before giving her a lovely hug.
Janine, of Chester-le-Street, said of mum Deborah, of Stanley: “She means everything to me. She’s the glue that holds our family together.”
Clearly moved, Deborah, of Stanley, had to hold back the tears to tell us about mum Jean. She said: “She’s a brick. She goes above and beyond - she would give me the clothes off her back and the food off her plate. She is reliable and dependable and everybody would say the same. She’s my mum and I love her and she keeps everybody in check. She’s the person who when you are low, bumps you up. Sometimes I take her for granted and I shouldn’t.”
Jean, who has four grandchildren in all, said: “It’s nice to know you are loved so much by your family. They are really kind and caring to me and their grandad. We are all supportive and we are a close-knit family. We just love each other to bits!”
Headteacher Julie McDowell said: “They are a lovely family.” Jean has worked at the school for 34 years, Deborah for 19 years, Janine for two and a half years - and Jacob started nursery a matter of months ago. Send your photographs! We’d love to publish photographs of your family - from the children to oldest mum whatever their ages.
If you have a photograph of all the mums and children together, that’s perfect! Or you can make a collage and send that in. Upload it, with all the names, using the form on our website at chroniclelive. co.uk/yourmum
If you don’t have a photograph of everyone together then you can use the form to send separate photos of the generations.
Do make sure everyone is happy to be included in our special gallery on chroniclelive.co.uk and possibly in print in the Chronicle too.
You can also tell your mum how much you think of her with a FREE message in The Chronicle printed on Saturday, March 25. Visit chroniclelive.bookanad.com before the deadline of 10am on Friday.