75 Memories of My Mom
On your very special 75th birthday, I wanted to share a few memories. Although I’ve forgot more than I’ll ever remember, these memories are the memories that stand out the most. Enjoy!
Remember the time I threw my shoe through the window at Southwest BC?
That time I wore the dress you wore after your wedding.
Singing to me while rubbing my hair to get me to fall asleep
Cee Cee on the cross.
D’is Larry Boyette…
I was chasing bees at the log cabin and they were chasing me. You saved my life.
You got the bubble gum out of my hair, and realized it was poop instead.
“Bye Zye” the clown
You dressed me in a big brown coat and that brown hat with ear flaps down and sent me to my first day at Suffolk Christian. Many of my friends still remember that.
I wanted an up-pocket
Thanks for dropping me off at the Dunamis Club when we went to First BC in Hammond
I fell asleep at the corner of the hallway and living room in the log cabin when we had guest over. I didn’t want to miss anything.
I pooped in the closet at the log cabin, and I wiped with my Snoopy shampoo bottle. You cleaned it up
Victory Drill Book FOR - EV -ER !
You cut my hair so short one time that my bangs stuck straight out
Hiding in the hallway when the power went out during a storm with candles lit singing “What Time I Am Afraid, I Will Trust In Thee.”
Velamints… Packs and packs of Velamints
Waking up in the Zuni house and having breakfast, making fun of each other bed-hair
Pop Pop the Pirate
The time you broke your leg at Southwest on the ice and my class was walking by. I saw you on the pew with blood on your leg and your hose torn. You said “Everything’s fine.”
Stacks of presents neatly arranged on a chair every Christmas morning
Name Tags
Rt. 1 Box 92A, Zuni VA 23898
“You can’t go the movies for Cecil’s 13th birthday party. Hollywood is filled with sinners.”
Making homemade pizzas from Chef Boyardee kits
You sneezed so hard, you farted one morning while making breakfast
Everything was always organized to the tee whether working with the children’s choir or hosting a party
Every Thanksgiving, I was a pilgrim with aluminum foil shoe and hat buckles
The Foster Club
“This is Mrs. Aliff. I’ll be by tomorrow.”
Always a meal at night; always.
“Tommy, stop doing that at the dinner table. Go the bathroom if you must do that.” Challenge accepted… proceeded to go to the bathroom right next to the kitchen, press my bare ass against the wooden door, and fart until I messed myself. Always a crowd pleaser.
Friday family day
You always took special care of me when I was sick, or I broke my ankle, or I got stung by a bee, or a cut myself, or I got a knot on my head, or even when I opened Sharon’s forehead with a golf ball
Slicing a 5 lb. block of government cheese
I think you stopped sewing after you saw that red thread hanging from my chest; the same red thread that was on the needle that you stuck on the couch arm after you were sewing something
Laughing with all of us kids when we visited another church during vacation. After all, we were the “Greatest Display of Children”
You finally started talking to me 3 days after I got kicked out of high school
You always kept my Noid collection on point
The $1 budget you gave me to buy a Matchbox car on Friday night when we went to K-mart, if I behaved that week.
“You can’t go to Busch Gardens because they are owned by a beer company”
You always came up with the corniest, yet greatest games on our teen age soul winning trips
You call my Tommy
Packing my suitcase for summer camp, only to find the suitcase looked exactly the same when I return a week later. I didn’t need any other clothes because I didn’t need to shower.
That one piece, long sleeved, pants suit, bathing apparatus you wore on our summer vacations.
You always believe(d) in me
Vita Lea, Vita C, Lecithin
No single dating. You might not be able to control your hormones
Sitting with you in the living room while Libby was giving birth to all her pups
I was standing in the rain with my umbrella waving as you pulled away after dropping me off at college
Saturday night date night at Chesapeake Square
Love/Hate relationship with TV Show Rescue 911
I said “fart” when you asked me would I be able to finish cutting the grass before sun goes down, and you smacked me in the face.
When you see me now, you say “Hello, hello, hello”
You got me a job with Joe Bean’s because you thought I was the greatest
Family night devotionals and prayer
Your always available for a solid side hug
“Mom, I trimmed the bushes in the front flower bed. Are you surprised?”
Working together in the student ministry at Liberty
Sunday night dinner talking about how stupid some church people are
Wednesday lunch at Ryan’s… and we brought our own bottle of Butter Buds
Mother / Son dance at my wedding… wait a minute… dancing was a sin back then. Never mind
Mother / Son dance at your 50th Anniversary… I knew we’d finally get one in
You were proud that I made a plant holder out of macrame
The first, and last time, you made quiche…
Shopping the deals!
Making Christmas special for my children
Singing the appropriately placed Sunday School song whenever I was misbehaving (ie; “Have patience. Have patience. Don’t be in such a hurry,”🎶
You cried at my high school graduation
You’re always organized and you always make sure everything is thoroughly done
Rolling your eyes and laughing when me, Cecil and Nick were playing Rambo with water guns at the Hardee’s playground
Your Monday-After-Thanksgiving shopping spree with Pat… I knew we were in for great gifts
Driving to Atlanta watching you in the other car, wondering how you were feeling, not really knowing what to say to you, but loving you unconditionally
Dropping you off in Atlanta was the reverse feelings of you dropping me at college
You’ve always loved me and put my needs above your own
