For the past hour, I have been fighting back tears thinking of things that I will miss with my Mom someday. She may not see me get married, she may not see me have another baby, she may not see me become CEO of my company someday (let's be honest here, no one will most likely see that one.) She most likely will not see my son graduate from high school or play football for the Vols or become the first decent black President (did I say that, oops, I meant to say first decent mixed race President... oops again)
I think that I have to change the way I am thinking here. She has seen me graduate high school, college and grad school. She has seen me become a pretty decent mother. She has seen me be a person capable of giving and receiving love and I think that fulfills every mother's wish for her children.
I am going to leave you with 2 stories about my mom that make me laugh every time I think about them. Imagine her "mom" voice with her mixed Kentucky/ East Tennessee hills accent when you read this story, if you have never heard her, it's a hoot...
Linda on tattoos -
So I came home for Easter while living in Hilton Head Island, SC with a big tattoo of a Taurus on my leg (no not a longhorn cow or Chicago Bulls logo, but a Taurus head people huge difference) and it is scary looking and yes, I highly regret both the tattoo and the placement on my leg. We went to the Methodist church that we had been going to for years where the preacher never and I mean never taught out of Revelations, but decided this year on Easter to mention the "mark of the beast." Well, me being the biblical scholar that I am, I was scared, terrified, about going to hell because of this huge mark of the beast on my leg. My mom looked at me and said "Honey, I think that our Lord Jesus knows the difference between the mark of the beast and pure stupidity." That is the last mention she ever made of that tattoo, but that just kind of illustrated life according to Linda for me...
Linda on spaghetti -
My whole life, my mother made the most insanely delicious spaghetti. I begged her to make it every time we had any type of family dinner. It was the perfect combination of spices and noodles and tomato sauce, YUM! When I finally was living on my own, again in HHI, SC, I decided to make this spaghetti for my roommates so that they could see what a good cook I was. I called my mother asking for her famous spaghetti recipe and she was extremely puzzled and asked what in the world I was talking about. "Moo-oom, you know that delicious spaghetti you make all the time, the spaghetti that makes spaghetti my favorite food in the whole world..." She thought for a second and then busted out laughing and said "Oh honey (real slow like you really want to say ooohhh idiot,) that is Kraft Spaghetti Dinner, it is in the green box, usually right next to the blue macaroni and cheese box at the grocery store, you add tomato paste and ground beef and VOILA!" Yes everyone, that is my favorite food in the whole world, I am such a foodie...
