"You might have a mom, she might be the bomb
But ain't nobody got a mom like mine
Her love's 'til the end, she's my best friend
Ain't nobody got a mom like mine"
Just a few lines from the song I wrote about my mom...just kidding--Meghan Trainor wrote this song, but I love it, and thought it was appropriate for this post!
I love celebrating Mom every day, but I especially love
celebrating her on her birthday! How she has put up with me for 25 years is
certainly impressive as I can be quite a lot at times—from being a little girl and convincing her to buy me McDonald's for dinner even though Dad let me have it for lunch in the same day (definitely didn't get dessert after that), to getting into a wee bit of trouble in grade school, to making
difficult life decisions post-grad. She’d be the first to say I’m a bit
dramatic at times, and I’d be the first to agree with her!
"She my world, she's my heart and there's no denying
I'm her girl no matter what even when I'm lying
She loving me, loving me, loving me, loving me, love
She love me like nobody else"
Regardless, she’s still always been my fangirl, my friend,
my person, my heart-mender, my advice-giver, my tear-wiper, my "momual" in life,
my problem-solver.
“My mom and I have always spoken the same language. We can
do anything—we just have to figure it out.” As I sat on the beach and read
these words out of this month’s issue of American Lifestyle magazine, I looked
over at my mom sitting next to me and smiled. Lilly Bunn, an interior decorator,featured in this issue, had perfectly summed up the relationship between my
mother and I.
"See we go way back, oh, I remember
All the times that I cried, she made me feel better
She loving me, loving me, loving me, loving me, love
She love me like nobody else"
Over the years I’ve learned that together we really can do
anything! Maybe not the first time around, but that’s the best part of having a
problem-solving mom—no matter what challenge or failure she’s presented with,
she sits her butt down and brainstorms how to unriddle the situation.
Considering all the things that I’ve come to her about, I would say she is a
professional unriddle-er!
I’m constantly getting told how much I resemble my mother,
and I honestly think that’s the biggest compliment anyone could give me. Not
only because she’s so beautiful, but because she’s an amazing person, too. I’m
not only proud, but also honored to be her daughter! If I could continue to
grow up and become just half the person she is today, then I’d be perfectly
appeased.
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| Mama, it's our world, and everyone else is just livin' in it! Thanks for always teaching me how to have a good time, and to take things with a grain of salt--except tequila, tequila doesn't need it! |
This year, we just so happened to be at the beach still for
her birthday. It was our last day there which was a nice distraction from the
fact that our week-long vacay was quickly and sadly coming to an end. We spent
the day doing all the things Mom wanted to do. It started off with a family
bike ride that was so relaxing that my ham of a nephew fell asleep and his
little head kept bobbing back and forth behind my brother-in-law—it was
priceless! After that, we spent a majority of the afternoon soaking up our last
set of sun rays on the beach. Post sunbathing, I headed out to pick up some of
the most generously sized cupcakes I’ve ever seen, while Mark made a pit stop
at Barnacle Bill’s to grab fish to throw on the grill. Now, I know what you’re
thinking…isn’t Barnacle Bill’s the restaurant Spongebob worked out in Bikini
Bottom?? Well yes, but luckily Mark didn’t have to travel all the way to Bikini
Bottom for this fish stop!
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| If you look closely, you can see Franklin's little head hunched forward! Bless his sweet heart! |
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| Preparing some veggies to go with our Wahoo for dinner with the monogrammed cutting board my sisters and I got my mom for her birthday! It was one of the samples at my favorite monogram shop here at home--Miller Monograms. I knew I had to get it for her! |
Anywho, I need to talk about the cupcakes more because wow. They
were from Sweet Carolina’s Cupcakes around the corner from our condos in Hilton
Head. Because of their abounding size I chose six cupcakes of different flavors
for all of us to share: your classic yellow cake with chocolate icing, salted
caramel, fresh blackberry, chocolate cake with cream cheese icing, red velvet,
and their signature sweet Carolina cupcake—a vanilla cream cheese frosting on
their pink velvet cake topped with pink sparking sugar.
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| Practically drooled over them in the store, drooled over them at dinner, and am currently drooling over them now. They were amazing--group favorite was definitely the Fresh Blackberry! |
After dinner, I quickly cleaned up for us in efforts to selfishly
hurry everyone along to dessert—y’all know my sweet tooth is serious! I served
them on my brand new platter that I purchased from Emily Mccarthy Shoppe, the
first stop during our day trip to Savannah!
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| Come to mama! |
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| Was thrilled to already put my coral Emily McCarthy platter to good use! |
Mom sliced them up and passed around pieces for everyone
including little Franklin. We chatted with our mouths full as we shared corny
dessert jokes, like “That one really just takes the cake!” Yea, we’ve got some
work to do when it comes to our jokes.
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| Not only is he cute as a button, but he loves to share his sweets with Aunt Lulu--something I will just never be able to do... |
It’s safe to say that our bellies were full post dinner and
dessert, and our hearts were just as full after our family vacation!
So, long story short, thanks a million Mom, for doing
whatever it is you did throughout my life—I seemed to turn out pretty darn good
if I do say so myself, but definitely would not be the woman I am today without
you!
"Her love's 'til the end, she's my best friend
Ain't nobody got a mom like mine
Oh, how she loves me to the moon and back
That's what she told me
Her love never ends, she's my best friend
Ain't nobody got a mom like mine"
