Good morning and Happy 2024 brothers and sisters. I sit here and think about how this morning would be if my mom was still alive. The Lord blessed me with such a wonderful God fearing and praying mom and a good dad as well. I had the mom who would remind you of Aunt Bea on Andy Griffith. She was the best mom, wife, child of God, and my best friend. She would be yelling for us to get up that breakfast is ready. She would’ve gotten up and rolled out homemade biscuits with scrambled eggs, ham, bacon, sausage, grits, hash browns, white gravy and then our favorite chocolate gravy. I would tell my friends for those who didn’t have a mom like I had that it was almost like liquid fudge. We would squeeze butter in the bottom of the bowl and pour the chocolate over the butter and then take the homemade biscuits and make little dough balls and drop into the chocolate. OMG.
Then she would begin cooking for our afternoon dinner. I can’t even begin to think of all the things she cooked. The base was always a ham, chicken and dressing, she would make greens that included mustard, collards, turnips and kale with bacon drippings and pieces of ham in it. She would make me a broccoli and rice casserole, and my brother a hash brown casserole. We had homemade Mac & cheese, yams, black-eyed peas, pinto beans, because those were my dad’s favorite, Fried sweet cream corn from the garden she had frozen out of the garden and Jesus eggs. She always laughed and told people that there was nothing deviled in her house. I could eat a dozen.
For dessert, we would have homemade banana pudding, her famous chocolate and coconut cream pies. She’d make a Hershey bar cake and a Butterfinger cake and my favorite, a mandarin, orange, coconut pineapple cake.
She was such an amazing and wonderful lady. I think about how blessed I was, and how thankful I am that even though I’m by myself now, I had 54 wonderful years of unconditional love. Even when she found out that I was gay and she wouldn’t be getting any grandkids, she invited Freddie into their home and treated him just like he was family. She loved Freddie more than she ever loved my brothers wife. We had a running joke where she would say Freddie’s a better daughter-in-law to me than April.
Sorry for such a long post, but I’ve been pretty emotional this morning and I sure miss my mom more than I can ever put into words. If you have someone like this in your life, I hope y’all have the most blessed and happy 2024 ever. If you don’t, I hope the Lord will put someone in your life this year who will show you the unconditional love that every person deserves.
My beautiful mom below. Her and my dad met in the eighth grade at New Hope. They eloped to Trenton, Georgia and got married at 18 because their parents didn’t want them to be together. They spent a total of 58 years together and was never with anyone in their lives but each other What a blessing ❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is my favorite picture of my mom and dad and after he died I found it inside of his wallet. I sure hope you guys can see this photo.
Thanks to those who let me vent this morning. My heart and soul needed it.
Happy 2024 family 😊💝💖💘❤️🩹❣️
Then she would begin cooking for our afternoon dinner. I can’t even begin to think of all the things she cooked. The base was always a ham, chicken and dressing, she would make greens that included mustard, collards, turnips and kale with bacon drippings and pieces of ham in it. She would make me a broccoli and rice casserole, and my brother a hash brown casserole. We had homemade Mac & cheese, yams, black-eyed peas, pinto beans, because those were my dad’s favorite, Fried sweet cream corn from the garden she had frozen out of the garden and Jesus eggs. She always laughed and told people that there was nothing deviled in her house. I could eat a dozen.
For dessert, we would have homemade banana pudding, her famous chocolate and coconut cream pies. She’d make a Hershey bar cake and a Butterfinger cake and my favorite, a mandarin, orange, coconut pineapple cake.
She was such an amazing and wonderful lady. I think about how blessed I was, and how thankful I am that even though I’m by myself now, I had 54 wonderful years of unconditional love. Even when she found out that I was gay and she wouldn’t be getting any grandkids, she invited Freddie into their home and treated him just like he was family. She loved Freddie more than she ever loved my brothers wife. We had a running joke where she would say Freddie’s a better daughter-in-law to me than April.
Sorry for such a long post, but I’ve been pretty emotional this morning and I sure miss my mom more than I can ever put into words. If you have someone like this in your life, I hope y’all have the most blessed and happy 2024 ever. If you don’t, I hope the Lord will put someone in your life this year who will show you the unconditional love that every person deserves.
My beautiful mom below. Her and my dad met in the eighth grade at New Hope. They eloped to Trenton, Georgia and got married at 18 because their parents didn’t want them to be together. They spent a total of 58 years together and was never with anyone in their lives but each other What a blessing ❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is my favorite picture of my mom and dad and after he died I found it inside of his wallet. I sure hope you guys can see this photo.
Thanks to those who let me vent this morning. My heart and soul needed it.
Happy 2024 family 😊💝💖💘❤️🩹❣️
