I Am My Mama

Mama and Me on my wedding day.

I love my Mama very much! She is a wonderful mother, friend, teacher and person I can laugh at! She’s amazing! People have always said that I look like her and act like her, but I never really believed it until my senior pictures. I took one look at my picture and nearly fell over. I do look just like her!

When I graduated from college, I was walking through our student center and heard over all the noise, “You have got to be Gayle Sue’s daughter.” Now I knew I had a distant cousin at school with me but I had never met his family. It was his dad (my mom’s first cousin). He had never seen me or even a picture of me and he picked me out of a crowd. I do look just like her!

My mama was an elementary school teacher for years (I don’t know how many but a bunch). She was very close friends with her coworkers and they would show up at work (very often) dressed alike or very similar. I just couldn’t understand that and would make fun of them relentlessly. When I started working my grown-up job with the State of Oklahoma, I became good friends with Lora. We started dressing alike…ALL THE TIME. We NEVER talked about it, it would just happen. We didn’t even go shopping together. People thought we were sisters, best friends, cousins and one person thought we were mother/daughter. Still haven’t figured that one out. I do act just like my Mama.

As any good woman, you find a shoe that you love and goes with many things, you buy it is in another color so it goes with everything! My Mama would do that with many pairs of shoes. She’s so smart! As smart as she was, occasionally in her sleepiness, she would put on the correct style of shoe, just in different colors. Sometimes she would go all day without noticing or some punk kid would point it out to her. This one I really couldn’t let go. I would make fun of her for days. Even now, just thinking about it makes me laugh. I arrived at work this morning with two different shoes and two different colors!

I am my Mama!

Twins

That's right folks. We are not longer just waiting patiently to see if it is a boy or a girl, it is now one of each? two of the same? TWINS!!

We went on last Monday for our first ultrasound. As soon as the tech made one swipe over my belly, I saw the two sacks and knew it was twins. I closed my eyes and prayed that I didn't just see that. Then I hear "Look there are your babies!" Yes babies not baby but babies. Matt almost yelled "I knew it." I was in shock and was for most of the week which is why I am just now blogging about this. I am super excited, just extremely terrified as well. We are just praying now that both stay very healthy and that I am able to carry them full-term. I will probably be big as a house but will love everyday that they are able to continue to grow and develop inside of me so they can have the best start to life. Just because I want them to stay in there as long as possible, does not mean that I will not complain or vent or stress about how I am feeling, looking and what I am becoming because as I see it, it all goes together!

I'm excited about the changes that will come our way in the next 7 months.

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I Can't Work My New Cell Phone

My husband loves the newest and most complicated electronic devices that come out on the market. We got him and iPhone in October and by December he wanted a new Android.

He calls me on Thursday last week with this "it will save money in the long run" pitch about switching cell carriers and phones. I knew what he was getting at, he just wanted the new Android (Droid) X. Now, I had no idea what this thing was. It has a weird red eye and sounds very Si-Fi (which of course is right up his alley). To make a long story short, we switched carriers, I got convinced to get this Droid thingy and now a week and a day later it lays here beside me and I have no idea what to do with it.

I tried to make a call from it early this morning and it wouldn't work. I was thinking I was really inept until I discovered I couldn't accept calls either...not my problem. My phone was not "activated" properly. So all the work my husband had done the night before was wiped clean and I had to start all over this morning on my own. Let me explain my electronic abilities...wait I have none. It has been a challenging day with this new contraption. I have finally been able to make calls. No one has called me (that I know of) so I don't know if it receives. It keeps saying "Droid" in this awful robotic voice anytime I do get an email or a text from my husband trying to convince me that I am going to like this phone. It sort of freaks me out. I want to make the creepy voice stop!

Needless to say, I have no idea what I am doing or even where to begin with this silly thing. Sometimes I think I wish I could go back to a phone that just makes and receives phone calls and is attached to the wall with a black curly cord. Life was much simpler back then!

(I actually had a phone like this growing up!)