Ok. So I've been feverishlly publicizing the Thanks Mom Marrow Drive about the joint. I met yesterday with Yvonne, a lovely representative of my great South Texas Blood and Tissue Center. I am going to train to be one of their Patient Ambassadors. Which is totally cool because I try so hard already to spread the word, that it will be nice to have all of their resources at hand.
Yvonne is also a member of my parish, so we decided to do a quickie Marrow Donor Drive on Sunday, May 20th, so that we may get the registrations in time to beat the May 21st deadline. Thanks to our really cool Priest we have full support. He pretty much said if you can make it happen, do it!!! Yay!
Any of you San Antonio readers (of which I think there are only a few) are welcome to lend a hand. I have 2,000 bulletins to stuff on Friday, May 11th at 10am. Any publicity we can generate is awesome. Each person that we sign up could potentially be a life saved, and how cool would that be!
Zoe is a little on the mend. She's been extra spunky and sweet lately and is counting down the end of school. I think I'm going to take her someplace fun after school today.
Over Memorial Day, Sis #1 is treating me to a trip to New Orleans. She is a contest fiend and won this cool deal, so I get to go for an early birthday present. I haven't been on a plane in YEARS, but am super excited. No drinking for me, but I'll enjoy the time off.
In answer to Claire's question, which I was finally able to access, I'm not sure what's in store for Mother's Day. I think we are going to take our lovely Momo G out to brunch and some of my great siblings are coming in town. I'm fairly low key about this as it's more about my egg-cellent mom than it would be about me. She's the best mom a girl could have. We are so lucky.
BTW, if anyone can help me install a captcha on a Movable Type blog, I'd be ever so greatful. I'm not getting many comments lately, but am getting TONS of spamarama.
Anyway, it's almost Zoetime! I need to change into some mom close so I won't embarrass her when we go out. My hair is still growing, and even though I can style it, I'm not. I'm tired of looking at it. So ballcap it is.
I can do this. I'm a Ambassador. Although I'll still keep my title as Queen of the Universe.
Your assignment today is to tell me something cool about your mom. Even "bad" moms have done something cool from time to time. My mom's best skill is never panicking. I don't think I've ever seen her freak out in my life. Maybe when someone was about to barf, she did, but other than that, she usually just deals. I get my coping mechanism from her I think.
Posted by debutaunt at May 9, 2007 02:09 PMHey
Felt like I had to comment on this one. My Mum. The best Mum any girl could wish for. When things went wrong for me I always had a safe space to retreat to, she used to call me chicken and stroke my hair, nothing like it. She died 14 years ago of cancer and I still miss her with a depth that is fathomless. I am Mum now to 4 of my own and I just hope I can be to them even a fraction of what she was to me!
Love you always Mum.
AMxx
Posted by: AM at May 9, 2007 03:00 PMYea for your Mother's coping skills which you inherited. Glad Zoe is on the mend. A double yea for
your New Orleans trip, how great for you.
The best thing about my Mother was her patience with all of her kids. Next best thing about her-she was a fabulous hugger.
Happy Mother's day to you, your Mom, your sisters.
Posted by: Claire at May 9, 2007 08:38 PMmy Mom, the funny one in the family...always finds the humor in things...she passed down that trait to me, and now its humor that get me thru life...gotta find the humor to live on....
speaking of humor, going for my annual "smashing of the breasts" tomorrow...i think i'll laugh thru it :)
My mom is a kick to be around. She's imparted to us 6 kids a sense of adventure, attempted to teach us that integrity & hard work pay as well or better than crime might pay and that what ever we wanted to pursue, we should give it our best shot.
She demonstrated this sense of hard work and playing hard as well in a couple of noteworthy ways. She was a stock car racer in southern Colorado in her late teens and early twenties. This 'need for speed' launched, literally, a desire to fly so she then became a pilot by taking in laundry to pay for flight lessons. Later she combined summer fun with earning the bulk of her income by cooking at church camp, 3 meals a day, 8 weeks per summer for 350 or more people per meal, on two stoves of which one was a wood-burning antique and with no professional training for the job except feeding our crowd.
She's a great lady and a breast cancer survivor along with being smart, fun and frugal.
Posted by: Bren, Cody'sMom at May 10, 2007 12:13 AMSomething cool about my mom? I can think of two. First, she was the best person to do FUN stuff with! If you wanted to travel or shop or eat out or whatever, my mom was IT. (until she got sick. then her real personality was available all the time and she was a true bitch) Second, even after she got sick, my mom would help me financially if I ever needed it and especially if it involved my daughters. Now that my mom's gone, it just feels sad that she wasn't the mommy I needed.
Posted by: Traci at May 10, 2007 10:15 AMMy mom is the most wonderful mom. She is also my friend. She is strong, she is funny, and she is caring. I love her dearly. All of her strength became apparent when my Dad died. She could crumble or stay strong, she chose to stay strong. Not that it hasn't been an emotional battle. We are so much alike that we have our bad days on the same day. As in I will call saying I am having a bad day and she will be like "ya, me too". She is my shopping budy, my gossip buddy, and my no notice needed babysitter. I hope she can understand on some level how much I love and appreciate her.
Posted by: Missy at May 10, 2007 12:35 PM