Dame Miranda Harcourt is looking forward to Mother’s Day, even if two of her children won’t be around to share it.
“I know that Thomasin and Peter will have no idea that it’s Mother’s Day because they are both overseas, but our youngest, Davida, will secretly message them, and then I’ll receive their love and blessings,” she laughs.
“I’m fine with that because as a family, we really don’t have any traditions around Mother’s Day except maybe some craft projects. Whatever the celebration, whether it’s birthday, Mother’s Day or Christmas, we always try to craft gifts as a family.”
While chatting to the Weekly, Miranda sends Davida away to find some matchboxes her youngest painted as presents one Christmas. She returns with a selection of gorgeous little painted boxes – one is a bed, complete with pillow, another is a little house with a tiny teddy inside.
“I’ve only got three left because they were so wildly popular,” says Miranda. “Everyone in the family claimed one for themselves. because the teachers go, ‘Okay, kids, let’s make a beautiful card with a handprint and in your terrible handwriting write ‘Mum I love you.’ And so there are tears all over New Zealand because the teachers have put the hard yards in!”
Looking back, Miranda, 62, admits it took her a long time to realise she was actually a mother.
This story is from the May 07, 2024 edition of New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
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