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Hey Ma, First off, and most importantly, I love and miss you. I miss you every day. I'd give everything short of Shawn to hear you call my name one more time. And I pray every time I call your name, you hear me.
By Derrick McKinney 4 years ago in Families
Belief in another.
My mom has her own unique way of showing me, her eldest daughter, that she believes in me. I like to call it tough love with little bits of help sprinkled in.
By Shannon Lemire4 years ago in Families
Dear Mom: There's Something I Want You to Know
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom! I am writing this a few weeks after Mother’s Day this year because I was contemplating what I wanted to say to you. There is so much I would like to talk to you about if we could be together one more time. What I wouldn’t give if that could be.
By Linda Rivenbark4 years ago in Families
Tamales and Needles
Dear Ma, I must confess that Christmas of 2002, I put my hand in the tamalera (a big deep pot for tamale making) and the tamales came out raw (pintos) because of me. It was my fault. I'm sorry, I did so even with all your warnings, but my cousins dared me. That day we all laughed at the mishap and all the aunts scolded us kids asking who had dipped their hand in the tamalera. (It's an old Mexican superstition, the person who puts the tamales in the pot is the ONLY one who can put their hand in before they start cooking, if someone else does, the tamales will not cook. Silly I know, but it's a thing.) Again Ma, I'm sorry.
By Elsa4 years ago in Families
Parents: Are you helping or hurting your child?
I was born by caesarean at least a month early, a good kilogram underweight, something doctors scheduled to happen despite my mum's protests and then my dad signed off on. Because you know, men had authority.
By sonia wilson4 years ago in Families
Been a while. . . .
Well, I guess you can say I'm back to writing because I'm on my last pregnancy and it's been hell. Not hell that it's another girl but hell with how things have been going in my life. I'm sure that I left off with having my son and dealing with some father-in-law issues, well I will say some things are cleared up, but other issues just keep popping up.
By Manda Marie4 years ago in Families
How To Make Your Girlfriend Feel Special In 12 Ways
1. Classic Good Morning Text There is nothing like waking up to a text from your favorite person. While a "hi" might start the conversation, a meaningful and thought-out opener will show your girlfriend that she truly is special. Some options might include "Good morning, beautiful. I was thinking of you" or "I hope you have a wonderful morning. I can't wait to see you tonight."
By Botezatu Florentina4 years ago in Families
I Need to Tell You Something. Top Story - May 2022.
I hold the piece of paper in my trembling hands. The wrinkles from how often I crumpled the paper only to straighten it back out again as I changed my mind one more time making the material feel almost soft. I wrote this letter knowing that I would not be able to keep my thoughts straight without it. My mouth is dry, it feels as if I have inhaled sand and I lick my lips to try and get myself ready to speak. I know what I have come here to say today will be difficult. I look at the wrinkled notebook paper with its tattered edges from the spiral and begin to read.
By Whitney Roden4 years ago in Families
Adolescent Adventures
Hey Mama, you were on my mind so I thought I'd write you a little something, see what you have been up too lately. I know how much you love getting mail, and packages. You always thought it was the most silly thing about you, how excited you get about mail. Well it turns out you passed that trait down to me. I love sending and receiving mail and packages, makes me happy to send packages to people and surprise them and just excited about getting them for the same reason. It's been so long since I've gotten to see you, and that really sucks something awful. I miss you something awful. I was thinking about growing up, all the places we've been together and all the memories we've made through the years. I was just thinking about back when I was in high school. You always got so involved to help us kids with our projects, and school events. You really inspired my creativity and sparked a flame in me that I know wouldn't be there was it not for you. I enjoy making art so much thanks to you. All the memories I have of the school projects you helped me with. Remember that solar system replica we made? We spray painted all of the planets. I was so proud to take that to school. I felt like the coolest kid.We were always pretty good kids but we had our wild moments. With five of us, and especially when we were all teenagers, my word I still don't know how you did it.. speaking of things unknown, I never told you this story, I bet you will laugh and want to whoop or ground me haha. My senior year after cheerleading one evening, my boyfriend at the time and some of the other football players had an idea to pull a prank on one of our teachers. I went with them down the road to our Park, Ivy Agee Park, after we made a dollar general run... for supplies. They had the great idea to T.P. roll someone's house that missed practice. I guess being the week of Halloween people get a little wild. Well we took all of these packs and rolls, back packs full, rolls of toilet paper just falling out of our arms and backpacks running up the hill to the house. We had to hide behind trees because they were home! Two of the guys said, "okay throw as many as you can before I yell run. Then when I yell run, drop everything and run as fast as you can back to the truck or you get left.. and possibly arrested." haha oh my goodness we threw several rolls then ran as fast as we could. Nick yelling to the driver, "Go,Go, Go get the hell outta here." After I got home that night, you were in the living room, you said "Hey baby did you have a good practice and have fun?" and not even 15 minutes after the "Toilet Paper Crime" I already almost outted myself. We had swore an oath to secrecy between all of us kids. Not a soul was to know. We could never tell anyone or admit it.. and after you asked me, I opened my mouth immediately finding myself ready to say the words, "Yeah! Mom we just T.P'd a house.. I quickly realized that and that it would've resulted in me getting grounded.. My heart was racing so fast. No one ever found out to this day who was involved. I hope that story made you smile and maybe laugh a little. I miss you everyday!
By Katie Westmoreland4 years ago in Families
One cannot be too sentimental
People are emotional animals, this is an undeniable fact, it is because we are flesh and blood with feelings of people, so we will have a lot of distress and trouble from the emotional side of things. People do not have feelings not called people, but if people have too many feelings, will also become one of the important reasons for their own distress.
By Frank Morgan4 years ago in Families
I Love You, Mom
In the second blog I ever wrote, I talked about how drastically different Father’s Day is perceived and celebrated compared to Mother’s Day. It was a funny little take on how Mother’s Day was the Super Bowl and Father’s Day was the Duke’s Mayo Bowl (which is an actual college bowl game). There have been seemingly endless number of commercials from jewelry stores, department stores and even day spas since April and with many states dropping mask and other COVID restrictions, restaurants and their parking lots will be overflowing with people giving their mothers a day out with a good meal.
By From the Mind of Nobody4 years ago in Families
A Mother's Love
This Mothers Day, we celebrate all the mothers in the world. The ones that are always there when we need them in our life. Mothers are the ones who take care of us when we are sick and when we need a shoulder to cry on when things are not going the way that they should. Our mothers are the ones we run to when we need advice about what to do when our children are acting out; and doing things that they should not be doing. She remembers one day when her children decided to become cooks with everything in her kitchen. She called her mother to find out what to do because she would have done something drastically wrong. After all, all the food that she had was now on her floor and everywhere else that you could think. Can you imagine five dozen eggs all over the floor, a bag of flour all over the children and on the floor? Now we sit here and make fun of the things that our children have done in the past because they are older! How we miss the things that we cannot have anymore. Not a day goes by that I do not miss talking to you and looking at your beautiful smile. You were the glue that kept this family together and talking. Now that you are not here, it seems as though our family has gone their separate ways from one another. We spend our lives arguing and fighting over the things that happened in the past, and sometimes it; is harder to let go of the past. It is hard to let go of the past and live our life the way we should because sometimes the past comes back into our hearts. It is part of our life, and sometimes you know that you should give in to the past because of the hurt and awful things that happened in our past life.
By Tammy hopkinson4 years ago in Families