Congrats on 10! Me & my wife celebrating 1 year of her naturalization to the US! After being here for 17 years.
The anniversary of my mother's death seems to always leave me a little melancholy. I am grateful for being blessed with having her for a mother, for the time I got to spend with her and the knowledge that I will meet her (along with my other loved ones who have gone on and my Lord & Savior) again in Heaven when this life is over. I still miss her and sometimes regret that she's not here to celebrate some of the milestones in our families lives and that seems to hit a little harder on the anniversary of her death.