I REMEMBER MAMA

When Mama couldn't pick me up, after school,I never panicked.I knew that someone would be waiting to pick me up and take me to their house and wait for Mama! It would be an exciting afternoon, either way! Perhaps I would make Oatmeal Cookies with Ethel Wells,or learn to decorate sugar cubes with Martha Traverse. I might possible practice flower arranging at Mary Lib's,or enjoy helping OB make her wonderful Pecan Pie. If I was at "Other Mother's",I probably had tuna fish sandwhiches along with Tara and then we may have made some Chocolate Chip Cookies.(Hers were the best!)
All of Mama's friends played bridge,(and she belonged to this same bridge group for 50 years.), but I'm not sure they ever really played true bridge. (but they had alot of fun!) They were always available to pick me up after school, and they never minded.Jewel use to drive up to the junior high school, where we had swimming,during PE class,just to watch and make sure I didn't have a seizure during class.
The Reid's and the Ray's were so close that my brother's and I even spoke at OB's funeral several years ago.....That was hard too. People don't have these kinds of friendships anymore, and it's a shame.
God gave me a treasure when I was growing up, and I didn't even realize it!
Those treasures were Mama;Carolyn;Ellen;Martha;OB(Jewel);Other Mother(Elizabeth);Mary Lib;Norma;Shirley;Mary Simpson.
I have the treasures of their children as my friends now in Tara who belonged to Other Mother!;Janice who belonged to OB;Bobby who belonged to Mary Simpson, and one of the first Mom's we lost;Jimmy,who belonged to Ellen, and whose Father was one of the first we lost!Bill,who belonged to Mary Lib,has gone home to the Lord and was my first sweetheart at the age of 9!;Ed, who belonged to Shirley, is a banker in Mt.Dora,now.
Isn't it cool how God gave Mama a wonderful treasure of friends, and so gave me their children as mine too! He is such a wonderful God, and I get to spend an Eternity with all of them!
Woo Hoo!
Becky