My Mamaw

My Mamaw has been on my mind a lot lately.  She has not been doing well (health-wise) for a while now, but is hanging in there.  She is 92 years old and is one of the most inspirational women in my life.  I am not the writer of the family (my brother has that talent) so I thought I would just share a list of things that I remember when I think about my Mamaw.

1. The yellow stool in her kitchen

2. The smell of box bushes outside the house.

3. The metal box

4. Canada Mints

5. Giant Grocery Store

6. Mamaw's Sugar Cookies

7. The Story of Little Black Sambo

8. "It freezes nicely"

9. Pinning my contact information into my clothes when I would go into Washington DC with my parents - just in case I got lost.

10. Flabby arms - (I know that does not sound very nice, but it was an inside joke)

11. Thimbles

12. Playing Boggle

13. Sun Tea

14. Being a great hostess

15. Christmas

16. Her China

17. Sugar Pot

18. "Oh, Billy" - she used to say that when she was mad at my Dadaw

19. Riding the bus

20. House Dresses

21. Going out to special dinners

22. Spaghetti dinners on Saturday nights

23. Cereal one morning, Eggs the next...

24. Diagel

25. Thinking about how a lot of things seem to revolve around food...

26. The copper breadbox

27. Sitting on the screened in porch - wish I could enjoy that now. 

28. The temple

29. Her Strength to take care of my Dadaw 

30. Tissy 

31. Using my manners and being on my best behavior when visiting

32. Going to the Park

These are just a few things that I remember... again, I am not the writer in the family and I know that my brother has more eloquent stories... perhaps I will share one of his with you one day.  

I love you Mamaw!