I know how you feel. It gets really lonely when family seems to disappear before us. I used to have a large and loving family. Now all I have left is my drug addicted mother...who is partially dead, and my very ill sister. Everyone else has either passed away, or just gone on with their lives without us. I hate it mainly because I feel my children should have the family experience. But then again I just realized their father and I will just have to be enough, and be extra loving and fun so they don't feel left out.

There are family members I've also never met, or don't remember meeting. Sadly I have no recollection of what they look like either. I think loneliness has a lot of responsibility with why we try to remember important people from our pasts. Life gets lonely, and lonely gets you thinking.

I'm sorry you feel kind of low about this. Do you remember what your mama looks like at all....in your memory?