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By: Tammy

Tammy — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:09:21 +0000

I’m just catching up on some blog reading and know I’m too late for the contest, but I’ve been reading some of the stories left here and wanted to add something about my mom. Her name was Marilynne (Mary Lynne) and she passed away 11 years ago this week at the age of 52. Mom was the youngest of seven children, born the morning after her father left for Japan (WWII). The two of them met for the first time when she was 18 months old. Her older siblings would show her pictures and tell her “that man is Daddy”. When Grandpa got home from the war, she called him “ThatManDaddy” for a long time.

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By: Kelley

Kelley — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:21:39 +0000

PS – the name she MOST liked to go by was “NANA!”

By: Kelley

Kelley — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:21:02 +0000

I know I’m too late for the contest too…bummer!

My mom’s name was Claudia June, and I never heard her complain much about her name, except when we were about to have our first daughter. She very calmly told me, “If you name her after me, I’ll kill you.”

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:41:34 +0000

I’m too late for the contest, but I want to tell you about my mom!

Her name is Gail (technically Eleanor Gail, but her mom was Eleanor and so she’s always used Gail as her first name).

She was born in Honolulu (a few years earlier than one of the early posters here!) and still loves to tell the tale of the big tidal wave they all survived! She finished her college degree 45 years after she started it and is a great writer. One of her assignments in her last few semesters of class was haiku, and she spun off dozens and dozens of them, most of which were hysterically funny!

I don’t show her or tell her how much I appreciate her nearly as much as I should. She was miraculous in those early days after our twin daughters were born last summere, teaching me how to be a mom and how to love babies. I couldn’t have done it without her! BabyB is named Eleanor, in honor of her and my grandmother. (BabyA is named in honor of DH’s grandmother Claire.)

My mom works too hard and too long. She’ll be 72 this year and she works fulltime as a children’s librarian. Her story times have huge waiting lists! I’m glad she does something she loves, and is surrounded by kiddos. She lives 5 hours away from us (and our girls, her last grandkids) so at least she can enjoy little ones closer to home.

By: Kitty

Kitty — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:48:49 +0000

I found your site this morning while blog surfing. Love it! Even tho the contest is over, I thought I’d post about mom anyway.
My mom’s name is Patsy Ann. Nothing special about her name, and if there was I’ll never know now. You see my mom has Alzheimers. She is a very young 65 years old and is laying in the bed in the room across the hall from me not knowing much of anything right now. She doesn’t know me at all, thinks I’m her nurse and calls me mamme. I posted recently on my blog about how I forgot to ask her questions about things, like her name, my grandmas history, just all kinds of stuff. Mom worked all of my life and we never really spent good quality time together. And now the regrets are starting. Too little too late I guess.
Mom was a great mom and raised the three of us to the best of her abilities, and thought that working and us having extra money was the trick. I would have rather had mom than the stuff she was able to buy for us. Hindsight is 20/20. OH well Im sure I’ve brought you down enough LOL. Have a great and blessed day, and thanks for being creative, great idea for a contest………Kitty

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:45:11 +0000

Just catching up with your blog after being away, I know this is late but here goes- My mum’s name is Mary. About 15 years ago at the age of 59, she had a brain haemorrhage and was semi-conscious in intensive care. The nurses were doing observations on her every 15 minutes, testing her response to pain, checking her pupils, asking her questions such as what’s your name? After being asked many times she eventually mumbled in a frustrated voice ” Mary Christmas!” It caused tears of laughter in what was a very stressful time and guess what – she made an amazing recovery after the doctors only giving her a 30% chance of surviving.

By: Lisamarie

Lisamarie — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:55:04 +0000

Well, I’m super late for the giveaway, but we’re missionaries in Africa, so we probably wouldn’t have qualified anyway. I just couldn’t let this opportunity pass to talk about my mom, though!

Her name is Lois, and was named by my grandma’s roomate in the hospital. My grandparents couldn’t agree on “another girl’s name”, and the roommate had delivered a boy and shared her girl’s choice.

My mom is one of the most caring and helpful people you’d ever meet. And it started young. My mom tells the story of when she was 4 and my grandma was letting the baby “cry it out” in the wee hours one morning. I guess my mom couldn’t figure out why her mother wasn’t taking care of the baby, so she went into her parent’s room (grandma was still sleeping!), picked up her sister, carried her downstairs, grabbed a cold bottle out of the fridge, carried it and the baby back upstairs and fed the baby in her bed. Then went back to sleep. She said at the time, she couldn’t figure out why her mom was so upset when she learned what happened.

By the way, my mom is Lois Marie, I’m Lisamarie, and my daughter is Felicia Marie.

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:11:05 +0000

My Mom’s name was almost Billie Sue after both her parents but thankfully they decided on Deborah Sue. She has always gone by Debbie and was going to be an Opera singer but changed her major and became a Teacher instead; which worked out wonderfully seeing that she home-schooled my sister, brother, and I. Also could you have imagined if she had been an Opera singer named Billie Sue?!
I have a funny story about “cooking” when Mama and Daddy were first married. Mama had been really excited about cooking a wonderful dinner for Daddy and had purchased a canned ham. Having a good old Southern cook as a Mom; she didn’t know quite what to do with a “canned” ham.
Well, she decided to bake the ham IN the can…she knew it was done when the oven door blew open and the can exploded She’s never been able to live that one down and actually never told anyone till several years later, haha.
She’s a wonderful Mother and perfect “Granggie” to my sister’s four and my soon to be four Our kids are “birth control” for my brother and his wife who increased their “five year rule” to ten

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:01:59 +0000

My Mom’s name was Gladys – My dad called her “Happy Bum”

She was one of 11 children. Her twin sister died at birth. She had 6 children of her own, of which I am the last. As a young bride with a new baby, and my father away working, she once tried to burn tires to heat the house- luckily, no one die. My father once brough home an entire beef tenderloin – she thought it was a pot roast and boiled it