Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Time flies when your having fun


Today is my mom's birthday. She's the one on the right.( I guess it wouldn't really be possible for Shay to be my mom ) Some things you should or can know about my mom. 1.She watches Law and Order every night. 2. She teaches Quest(the smarty pants) at Rugel Elementary 3. She was 1st runner up(and she made sure I said 1st) in a junior miss pagent as a teenager. 4. Her favorite subject to teach is Social Studies. 5. She's been to Europe and China. 6. She told her college roomate she would marry my dad before she talked to him. 7. Her favorite Ice Cream is Blue Bell Homeade Vanilla. 8. She just told me I was her favorite son...and always will be..."Matt and Corey are no competition..Simon's coming close though" 9. She use to leave us kids notes for chores that had acronyms we had to encrypt...such as YRAYTAOH (Your room and your things all over house) 10. She loves visiting her parents. 11. Her favorite brother is her youngest brother Nat(but only because its a maternal bond thing...she loves you all equally) She calls me Nat when I'm in the same local as Nat...Nat is Sarah's dad. 12. She had a smoking problem as 7th grader that lasted for a week. 13. She went to school with "Newman" from Seinfeld and he shared his romantic feelings towards her after they had done some one-act plays during 9th grade summer...."Newman!" 14. She's not a big pet person. 15. She LOVES road trips...she gets really happy on road trips...sings and laughs and sings more. 16. She cooks well, but not often, she cooks good Roast. 17. She was once known as "The Grinch" at our old church. 18. She's taught Sunday School and played Piano at church for 33 years. 19. She taught Andrew Calloway in sixth grade, and Jazreel is in one of her classes this year. 20. She's tried to teach all of us Piano, some of us have gone further than others. 21. She really likes Cracker Barrel, Spring Creek Bar-B-Que and her new favorite is Martinez. 22. She watches "What about Bob" regularly, and our family quotes the movie regularly. 23. She once got Jimmy Carter's autograph and threw it away. 24. She votes Republican. 25. She thinks Laura Bush is pretty...she wishes her hair looked liked hers. 26. She watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first time last week. 27. She met Brother Ned (the former pastor and founder of WBC) when she was 16. 28. He confronted her about her choice of colleges. 29. She met dad at the college she chose and Ned asked dad to pastor the church. 30. She tries to spend one on one time with the girls. 31. She thinks Kelly looks like her. 32. She use to think Kelly looked more like Dad, she still might, on that I'm not sure. 33. She is the reason I passed 11th grade Algebra 2, we spent hours every night working on it. 34. She's helped me with every research paper I've done up until college...her favorite was the Titanic, or maybe the one on hurricanes...or civil rights. 35. She loves to look at pictures and watch videos of her grandson(Simon). 36. She has three close friends named Lisa (Lisa Clark, Lisa Pinkston, Lisa Watson) 37. She sleeps on the right side of the bed. 38. She has a huge knowledge of music...just start singing...anything...old 39. She has pretty good handwriting, not great, but good. 40. When I took Piano, b/c she didn't think I would ever take it from her, and I still didn't practice then, anyhow, when I took Piano we would stop by McDonalds for a French Fries and chocolate shake after school. 41. One of her favorite sayings is "get over it" 42. She loves Matt and Corey greatly :) 43. She is helpless with directions. 44. She panics in traffic. 45. She was camp nurse a couple of years ago at Hilltop...she use to be a nurse 46. I've never seen her in a swimsuit, or swim for that matter. 47. I've never seen her fish...I don't think she ever has. 48. If you want to make her happy get her a frosty while your at Wendys. 49. In the past few years she's had both a bike and walking accident. 50. She's a very hard worker, the last one to leave most of the time. 51. She sincerely and whole heartedly cares about her family...the rest of you guys I'm sure she does too, but...I have no doubt about Dad,Kelly, Corey, Future Child, Amy, Matt, Simon, and me.

Kelly and Amy, I realize there aren't a lot of points on you guys relationship with Mom. If you want to add any feel free...

The bold transfer half way down is a could be error turned into a beautiful symbolic something

2 Comments:

At 12:42 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey there scott, i just happen to find you. i couldnt believe that you took the time to type all that information about your mom , Good Lord, thats alot of info. i think i now know your mom better than i know you. lol

i hope all is weel with you and hopefully we can get together and hangout real soon. i started nursing school this week and so far so good. but it is going to be a hard semester, but i'll get thru. it.
take care and God Bless.
p.s. i got to see matt, amy and simon Sunday. just thought i would rub it in. ha ha ha

 
At 6:27 PM, Blogger Amy said...

Scott needs to clean his room REALLY bad. We should all bug him about this. He has been sleeping on the couch b/c his bed is covered with junk.

 

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