Happy Super Bowl Sunday! I hope you have some kind of a crazy fun party to go to (or maybe hosting?) I'm going to be hanging out with the youth from A&M UMC tonight and boy am I excited! So if you ever met my mom you would remember her sarcasm. She had a real interesting sense of humor, that thankfully rubbed off on me and my brother, that sometimes made people uncomfortable. I definitely know I'm that way now. After my mom died I was lucky to have friends that had already gone through losing a parent. So we kind of formed this...The dead parent club...I know. It sounds absolutely terrible, but I promise you it was one of the best support systems I've ever had. In this club I have my beautiful roommate (COUGHHISHANNONCOUGH) and my lovely friend/future roomie (COUGHHIKENDALLCOUGH). Sometimes it is really nice to be around people that just understand. They don't try to give you a pity party and they understand that its annoying when people treat you differently. Its awesome. If you're in the same boat, or even a different one, find people who understand. Seriously.
This memory is kind of short but I think sometimes we all need a reminder to not take ourselves too seriously and also just to remember how great my mom's sense of humor was.
Memory #6
When my mom got diagnosed with breast cancer she decided that no matter what she was going to try and find as many ways as she could to make herself laugh and to make everyone around her laugh. She was a goof and I'm proud to say I was her daughter. Sometimes her humor was really dark but it was still pretty great that she could find a way to make even having cancer sort of funny. For instance, let's just say there was cake in the kitchen and there so happens to be one piece. You get home for school and its still there. Score. So you go to get that piece of cake feeling pretty joyous about consuming the last piece of cake. My mom used to just walk up behind me and whisper, "I have cancer." SERIOUSLY. What else do you do but just straight up walk away and give up on the cake. She did it as a joke she almost never said it with a straight face but she would use this line for almost anything. "Mom, Sam is being annoying!" "I have cancer."
"Mom, I don't want to go to baseball practice." "I have cancer" Seriously she always found a way to somehow work this in. At the time she said it, it was like a weird unfortunate funny but now thinking back on it, I think its one of the funniest things ever.
Point is my mom had a great sense of humor and I miss it a lot. Sorry for the shortness today!
Love always,
Erin
This is so Melinda - I remember her telling me about doing this to y'all. Still makes me laugh!
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