Left to right, meet my daughter, myself, and granddaughter.    Taken in 2007 in Spur Texas, we had just come in from the garden and they were about to get ready for their trip home to East Texas.  Motherhood is so incredible and even across the miles there is so much to share and remember.  The questions of rearing and raising and some of the things we did are often on my mind.  I think of traditions and all the things we pass on to our children.  There are the cool traditions like having to bring an ornament or something decorative for the holidays of you can't open your gifts.  There are also the dreaded traditions, a hand-me-down you know is coming and can't dodge.  It is where you pay for your raising.  Like the curse, for example.  Ah yes, the dreaded curse.  Moma had three daughters and she passed it on to us girls.  I am sure it was passed down to her by my Grandmother.  A right of passage it was passed down to me as a young girl although I was suffering from selective hearing but somehow I heard the curse.  Mom said, "I hope you have a dozen and everyone is just like you."  Ya think?  I had to wait till I was a parent to find out what my childhood, my youth would cost me.  You cant stop the inevitable.  Compare it to Santa's "List" at Christmas or "Wait till your Father gets home".  You don't know just how much trouble you are in until it is all said and done.

I surrender Moma To my Moma: 

I would like to send the most sincere and heartfelt apologies for all the stunts I pulled and the disrespect I showed her.  Moma is gone now to a wonderful reward and I look at my children and grandchildren and think of how I wish I had listened more.  I see my daughter, now an adult and how well she turned out and my son is a fine young man.  I know I must have heard something she said.  I must have heeded some of her advise.  Look Mama!  Only two!  Perhaps I wasn't the pain I thought I was.

To my Daughter and to my Son... yes son, you to will pay for your raising, a message to you both:

You make me very proud to be your Mother and I love you both very much!

Kids..Believe That!

Note to myself:

As a MOM Ya think?

As a Family!You know it!

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