Children are often spoiled because no one will spank Grandma

I love this quote and have always wanted to paint it on something for Ma. It is so true in our family!! Ma kept me everyday when I was little while my mom was at work and then in the afternoons when I would get out of school. She always kept food in my hand and love in my heart. There is never a time that we get off the phone that she doesn't say "I love you, love you" at least three times before we actually hang up. I could never imagine my life not growing up right next door to her and Papa. There is definitely some part of me that wants to live in the play house in Mom's backyard so my kids can grow up being so close to my mom, but I know Stu will never go for that :)

This was Ma, Mom and myself Mother's Day 2013! 

Ma is such a fighter! On Friday, she fell and broke her hip at home and just got released from the hospital this afternoon. The family has hired someone to help her at home when they can not be there for her. Prayers are still appreciated!! Stu and I were lucky enough to get to stop by and see her on Sunday night before heading back to Greenville. We took my birthday fruit pizza up to the hospital to share with her and the nurses since she was not able to make it out to dinner with us. She was sitting up in her bed and seemed very cheery when we got there. It was a relief for us not to see her in so much pain.

I am not only lucky to have gotten her skinny genes of the family, but also her energetic, outgoing and excited personality. I have always been called "a little Barbara" by my dad, and now that I am getting older, more and more people say it! When most people meet her for the first time, they fall in love her!


The picture to the right is from Thanksgiving 2013, below is Mother's Day 2012, and the bottom is Mother's Day 2011.

A few months ago I was down at her house visiting and stumbled upon some of her and Papa's high school year books. Ma attended Midway High School in Camden, SC and graduated with the class of 1960 with only 11 classmates. Not only did I find out that she won high school pageant and was Miss Micasocar, but she was quite the popular one when it came to high school superlatives. I found it hilarious that she was 4 out of the 10 of them including most intellectual, friendliest, most talented, and most likely to succeed.

I feel so blessed to have grown up with such a loving grandmother that is one of my best friends!