Mama Likes It!


Today is the first anniversary of the day that Our Lord took Mama home to her reward. I and my siblings miss her terribly. I was still in the seminary and saw her regularly because I was only about an hour away in southern Indiana. I stayed with her during every school break. Mama suffered from cancer and it took about five and a half months to take her life. I have so many memories that make me smile and it is satisfying to know that she is with Daddy and especially with the Lord and the Blessed Mother, whom she loved dearly.

In the photo she is in the front, with Aunt Marie and Uncle Hayman, at a Blandford reunion in 2002, enjoying our famous Blandford BBQ chicken. It makes me quiver just thinking about that chicken.

Mama, you are a saint, no doubt about it. There's not a day goes by that I don't think of you.Posted by Hello

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