Super?! Me?!

My son's preschool teacher, Sheila, just gave me this "super" award! She must be working on securing a good end-0f-the-year gift! Just joking Sheila! I have it already haha! At any rate, I feel mighty special that Sheila chose me as one of her "super bloggers." I admire her for the awesome way she commands a classroom full of 3 and 4-year-olds while still gaining their unyielding love and devotion! My son thinks she is the smartest, funniest, and sweetest person, and I can't help but agree. Thank you Sheila!

Here are the rules of accepting this award:

• Tape the award somewhere on your blog



• Pass it along to 5 fellow super bloggers, and comment on their blog to let them know how lucky they are today!



• When you present your Super Blogger awards, link back to the super blogger who gave it to you.

So without further ado, (drumroll please...) here are 5 of my favorite bloggers:

• Christy's blog is one that I check every day! We attend the same church, but have never officially met. She is a joy and inspiration to those she meets (in real life and online) and I can't wait to chat with her face-to-face!


• At Aleesa's blog, I get a chance to see the inner workings of another house with a precocious (albeit darling) four-year-old! We also attend the same church and our "darlings" are both students of Mrs. Sheila. Darling four-year-olds aside (well, if that's possible!), I enjoy chatting with Aleesa while we work on projects for the children's department at church.


• Random Alien Musings is a blog by my dear high school friend Kunta (formerly known as Joe)! His blog is thought-provoking and fun, and I realize how much I miss him and his beautiful wife each time I read what he has to say. While his accepting this award my prove tricky (seeing as how the award says "the masked mommy"), I feel confidant that Joe is secure enough in his manhood to pass the award on to others!


• I will cheat and add a sixth recipient because I have three dear cousins who all blog: Kim, Lori, and Tricia are my sweet cousins with their extra sweet husbands and syrupy sweet children (I suddenly feel the need to brush my teeth)! We had so much fun growing up, but as it goes more often than not, growing up means growing apart (in our cases, geographically speaking). Our reunion this summer will be a blast!

Missing my Mema

Today is my Mema's birthday. However, no birthday parties are to be had today: she passed away in 1999. Growing up, I spent a great deal of time with my Mema. She was not just my grandma, but my friend, confidante, cook, shopper, and movie watcher. Thinking back to all the time we were blessed to share, there are a few things that really stand out. I rembember:

• Staying up late watching scary movies


• Eating her fried chicken and potato salad


• Savoring her collard greens, salt pork, and cornbread (NOT the Jiffy kind, but skillet cornbread)


• Talking about anything and everything


• Listening to Bread, Richard Clayderman, and Barbara Streisand in the car on the way to school


• Squeezing homemade buttercream icing straight out of the icing bags into open mouths


• Loving all the clever comebacks I could've used for school drama, but hating that I didn't think of them at the time


• Crawling in her lap and crying my eyes out when I found out my puppy died (I was 22!)


• Rolling and "putting the color on" her hair


• Playing endless games of Chinese Checkers or Trouble


• Waking to the sound of her singing "Good Morning to You" with her purposely cracking the last note of "you"

I miss my Mema so much! Not a day goes by that I don't wish my children would've had the opportunity to know her. There are several of you who knew her well and have special memories of her. If you were blessed beyond measure by knowing my Mema, please feel free to post a comment with your favorite memory of her.

Here is a picture of Mema and my little sister taken in 1991.

Happy Birthday Mema!