Motherhood

Happy Mother’s Day to me

Last Monday my friend AJ called and invited P, Caroline and me to spend Saturday at her family's ranch. I told her we would love to because we always love spending time with her, plus she's leaving in two weeks to go to Africa for three months to work on her book project called Lahema's Legacy. So on Saturday we headed down to the ranch for a day of fishing, swimming and just hanging out. Of Read More

In somewhat loving memory of the fish

Doodle, Motherhood

It was sometime around Easter when it dawned on me that April was right around the corner and I knew deep in my soul what was looming on the horizon. So it was with fear and trembling that I opened Caroline's school bag during the first week of April. Sure enough, there it was. The note announcing it was time to make the shoebox Fiesta floats for the Fiesta float parade at Read More

The steam has left me weak and nonsensical

Doodle, Motherhood

So, yes. The blog is undergoing some renovations. It's still a work in progress, so what you're seeing isn't the finished product. Right now it's the beauty equivalent of having on some foundation, but knowing you're going to look better once you have on a little bit of lipstick and perhaps some mascara. And, no, the staff at Big Mama, Inc. is in no way involved in writing any html, or css, Read More

Next week I may get my oil changed

Another day, Motherhood

Well, I’m sitting in Discount Tire while I attempt to compose this post. With any luck, the ambience of a bargain tire warehouse will inspire some creativity, because heaven knows I haven’t been able to think of a single interesting thing to say while sitting at my desk at home. It's a little known fact that Hemingway composed most of his best work at his local Discount Tire store. My car Read More

And as I washed the smell of bowling alley out of my hair, I knew it had been a good day

Doodle, Motherhood

Guess what it did here yesterday? Seriously. Guess. IT RAINED.And here is where I'd like to make some stupid joke about animals walking down our street being led two-by-two by an elderly gentleman with a long beard, but at this point it just seems like a cliche.Caroline got in bed with us at around 5 a.m. when she claimed that thunder had woken her up. The rule at our house, that we enforce Read More

Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen, nobody knows my sorrow

Motherhood

So, last night I finally gave the girls in my Bible study the blog address, which means admitting in public that I am known as Big Mama on the world wide web of internet. I had mentioned that I had a blog last week, but then I started to sweat profusely and couldn't really get the words out, so I left feeling like I had just told a group of people that I write things on the internet in what may, Read More

Blah, blah, boots, blah, blah, zucchini, blah, blah, pizza

Motherhood, Shopping

I already mentioned that I started my day on Friday by horribly disfiguring my thumb in an accident of idiotic proportions. In fact, I tried to dodge the "how'd you do that?" question from P because I didn't want to see the look on his face that would confirm my brilliance, but eventually, there was no other way to explain how I'd sliced my thumb open in my car without telling some lie about huge Read More

BM stands for Beth Moore, Big Mama and something else

Doodle, Motherhood

Yesterday morning, I took advantage of Caroline being enthralled with one of the Muppet movies while I sat at the kitchen island to work on my Bible study. Gulley, some other girls and I are doing "Jesus, The One and Only" this summer and I am loving it. And I have to say, I thought I knew a lot about Jesus, but this has made me look at some things in a different light, which really needs to be Read More

I didn’t know the meaning of embarrassment until I was a mama

Motherhood

This morning, while it was still just the heat equivalent of being baked in an oven as opposed to being dropped in a Fry Daddy filled with boiling oil, Caroline and I went to the park. She went down the slides and played on the various playscapes and then said, "Come on, Mama! Let's go swing!"I put her on one swing and I sat down on the swing next to her, even though I noticed it had a little Read More

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