Pop icon Madonna took a moment from her hectic preparations for the upcoming Celebration World Tour, starting from July 15, to reminisce about her late mother in an emotional post on Instagram on Monday.

Memories of how her mother had to endure hardship flooded back to the 64-year-old singer when she visited her storage vault filled with legendary concert costumes. Madonna’s mother had passed away from breast cancer at the age of 30 in 1963.

“A trip to my archives is always a nostalgic trip down memory lane! If I think about my journey through music over the last 4 decades— how could I not think about all the incredible clothes I got to wear and all the amazing designers I was lucky enough to work with!!” Madonna wrote.

The Like a Virgin singer also wrote about her humble beginnings and her mother’s sacrifices for her. “When I was a little girl I remember my mother was always cold. Partly because she was sick but also because she never had a coat. She always spent what little money we had on our coats and I remember standing outside waiting for the schoolbus With my mother shivering in the cold in the middle of winter!!”

“Years later when I became successful my mother’s sister said to me, ‘Now You can buy all the coats your mother couldn’t buy for herself’!” the singer-actress recalled. Madonna, often referred to as the Queen of Pop, also recalled her incredible journey to stardom and expressed her gratitude for what she has become in life. “The journey from the memory of my shivering mother in Winter to me shivering in the over air-conditioned storage space where all my costumes are stored is quite remarkable! I am overwhelmed with gratitude,” she mentioned in the social media post.

Madonna, who was named after her mother, concluded the post on a tender note. “Every time I put on an incredible coat I think of my Mother. I hope she likes my taste in costumes But most of all i hope she’s warm! 💗,” she wrote.