Day 2-Inner Beauty

Howdy!

  Before we dive on in let me first express how BLESSED and truly loved I felt yesterday by everyone’s support for not only me but also this journey that I'm starting! Thank you ALL for being some really rockin’ individuals (8 

  Secondly a couple different people messaged me individually thanking me for starting this blog because they needed to remember the happy times too…So consider this your daily dose of a good chuckle or two that could lead to remembering your own memories of my mom. I will say for me that personally this blog has already started to comfort me. Last night I lay awake in my bed. Not because I was crying and thinking “Oh! Woe is me to have to endure such tragedy!” but because all of these fantastic splendid memories, that had previously slipped my mind, that rushed into my brain.

I truly hope that this blog gives you everything that I think its going to give me. To quote my very lovely roomie (COUGHAMYCOUGH),”It gives those who knew your mom a reminder and for those who didn’t the chance to get to know her and learn more about you.” I’d like to think that’s true.

With that being said….

Memory #2-

   Before I get to into this memory I’ll give you some background info to why I chose this memory! Currently I’m a youth counselor at A&M United Methodist church and it seriously is one of the best things in my life. Anyways tonight in bible study I will be leading a group of middle school girls (with the help of some fantastic godly women) in a lesson about inner beauty and I instantly pictured my mother. 

  After a couple rounds of chemotherapy, like most women, her hair started to fall out in chunks. So one day she decided to just shave it all off. I’ll be real here, bald heads freak me out. Like they give me the heebie jeebies. I have no clue why but they do. So when my mom shaved her hair off, I was nervous that I’d be to weirded out to look at her.To my surprise she worked it. In her head she saw herself as being fabulous and so did everyone else who knew her. Don’t get me wrong she missed having hair, but she was an expert in making something unpleasant into something you could smile about. You could literally throw garbage at her and she’d find some way to make it into the greatest thing you had ever witness. She really had a knack at that.

  So anyways in honor of me talking about inner beauty tonight, here is a picture of the queen of inner and outer beauty, taken right after she shaved her hair off.

The first thing she wanted to do with her new look was naturally to dress up like Britney Spears…If you’re not sure what I’m talking about google search “Britney Spears shaves her head” back in 2007 and compare….Ladies and gents half of my chromosomes come from this woman. 

Have a great day!

Love always,

Erin

P.S.

Sorry for the blog change and the awkward format of the last two posts!
It'll get better from here on out! PROMISE (;