Mommie’s Quickest Meal

Date: 2010.01.27 | Category: Just Amy | Tags: Just Amy

Today I am sharing Mommie’s quickest meal. It also is her favorite. Pick up the phone and order take out!

Seriously Mom is not the biggest woman in the kitchen but she is in every other arena of life. She raised two kids on her own with a modest income. We never knew the struggles she had privately. We thought it was fun to have a wood stove heat the house instead of firing up the furnace in the dead of winter. She made everything fun. We had great birthday parties and the best book bags in which to begin the school year. There was nothing we went without. We had everything we believed as children to be important, everything we ever asked for but most of all we had laughter and love.

She is truly a special woman in a sea of not so special. She gives without boundaries and loves without reason. She is the most thoughtful person I know. One year she discovered a waitress at a pizza joint she frequented had never known her father. He was an officer in the military and stationed in the waitress’s country (this woman was from a Caribbean island). Her mother and father had a love affair and he was shipped out to another nation before knowing the mother was pregnant. For whatever reason, the father never knew his daughter. She had since immigrated to our country and our little town. She shared her story with mom and my mother realized this father lived in a town near my step-father’s family in England. Not here in the states but in England. My mother spent her next trip researching and finding this girls father. I am sure by now you have figured out the rest of the story. She connected these two strangers and gave them one of the greatest moments in their lives. That’s my mom.

And I am proud to be her daughter.

Happy Birthday Mommie!

xo–me