By Kamanthi Wickramasinghe

If your mother has passed away, Mother’s Day could be a tough day to handle. While feeling sad is perfectly normal you can still make her smile from up above by doing a few things to honour all the moments you had with her.

Here are a few ways in which you could do that :

Memorialise her recipe :

If your late mother was known for her delicious chocolate biscuit pudding, simply imprint her recipe with her handwriting onto a tile or a mug and leave it as a memoir in your kitchen. This will last for the next generations and people will always admire your mother for her culinary skills.

Recapture a moment in time :

Retrace the steps of your mother’s favorite hike or replicate her life-changing trip to any destination, recreating the photographs she took along the way. If you can track down the same backdrops that were in her pictures, you’ll have a poignant now-and-then to look back on.

Start a remembrance chain :

This is a great way to connect with loved ones near and far in memory of your mom. Ask those closest to her if they’d like to write down a special anecdote or funny story of her. Then send a blank journal to the first person on the list along with mailing labels with the other participants’ addresses written on them. Each person records his or her memory, signs it, and then passes it along to the next participant. At the end, you’ll get an especially meaningful memento.

Commit a random act of kindness :

Leave home-baked cookies for a sick neighbor. Add coins to someone's parking meter or do anything similar in loving memory of your mother.

Create a gallery of her life :

When you frame and matte official documents, like her birth certificate, diploma, passport, and marriage certificate, it begins to tell a story. Group them together on a wall in matching frames for a beautiful illustrated history of her life.