Beginnings

I think they gave me sweet tea in my bottle!  You can not - seriously - can not have been born and raised in the South and not had sweet tea.  It is like the Tide without Bear!  Recently, I have started to become nostalgic for my time as a child raised in Alabama.  There are so many good stories about my crazy family that I thought maybe a blog would be a good place to put them down so I don't forget them as I am getting older.  Also, I figure (another word only used in the South) that there are many of you who have very similar stories and will get a kick out of these.  For the most part I am going to try to keep names out of this because some of these stories could be embarrassing ... to me, probably not my family!

So let's see, just to get you started I should tell you a little bit about this family.  My dad is a semi retired minister who once worked as a manager at Winn Dixie (grocery store) and was in the Air Force for a few years.  My mom is a semi retired homemaker, seamstress, cook and yes she has been paid for some of these jobs.  I have a brother who is 3 years or so younger than me who has been a chef at a country club, a construction worker until he fell off a house and broke both arms (they are fine now) and a computer systems administrator.  My sister is 12 years younger than me.  She will always be the baby and she was not a mistake but there were some misses between my brother and her.  She is a sweetie who is loved by all studied to be a teacher but ended up processing insurance policies.  My husband of 18 years is the only sane one among us and I feel lucky to have gotten some sanity from him.  My daughter is the light, heart and soul of my life and provides just about as much entertainment as the rest of them.

There are others you will meet along the way...my mother's twin brother, my dad's twin brother (yep, it's true).  My aunt who retired both from the Marines and from teaching school!  My other aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents.

Most of what I have learned in life I learned during those first years growing up and spending time with my grandparents.  You will hear a lot about them because unbeknownst at the time they were my best examples of how to be caring, loving and Southern!

Come back because I plan to add things as I remember them or talk about them with my family!  It should be fun!  Especially those stories about outhouses!!