Mother's Day carries special memories for Premier Alex Scott. He says Edith Lucille Scott was always supportive of both his brother James (Jim) and himself in any endeavour they decided to undertake.

“She was supportive of Jim and me right up to her dying day - in whatever we did, wherever in the world we would be found,” he says. “My regret is that she did not live to see her great granddaughter, Netanya Eve, (my daughter) Robyn's daughter or see (my son) Lawrence graduate from Lynn University with his private pilot's licence and, oh yes, see me become Premier.”

He said she supported him through her entire life.

“She supported me with my education, marriage and politics,” said the Premier. “Although, I think she even liked my wife, Olga, more than she did me! While she was omni-present, she did so without being intrusive. She gave me my space, but taught us, my brother Jim and I, how to use it.”

He says while growing up his father was the family disciplinarian, but his mother was the conscience of the family.

“If my father did not know what we did - we were safe; however we were never able to ‘shake' Edith Lucille,” he said.

“She was in my head and heart. And I can hear her say ‘things done in the dark will be revealed in the light of day'.

“Can you imagine trying to have a good time on a date with those words of your mother running through your head?”

Before Premier Scott's mom passed she made him the best farine pie and he visited her every morning before work to deliver a newspaper and every Monday he picked her up and took her into Hamilton.

His fondest memory that he now holds dear of both his parents “would have to be watching them enjoy our children Robyn and Lawrence, as their grandchildren”.