MAMAW

The other day I synced an old email address to my new phone, which I forgot that had all my old contact synced to it from college. On my phone it has two people that I called the most, and could you guess who one of them was?

MAMAW!

She has been gone for over 2 years, and it shows you how much I talked to her. If you knew me in college, I was on the phone with her all the time. If she hadn't heard from me by noon, she was calling me. If I couldn't get ahold of her, I was calling Leslie, the boys, or Aunt Sue to see if they had heard from her. One of my fears while I was in college was that she would fall in the house, and couldn't' get up. She would be all alone. I was also afraid, knowing that she was aging, that she would pass away and I wouldn't get to say my goodbye.


As most of you all know, she pretty much raised me. From the time I was 5 years old, when my mom died, she became my mom. She never took mom's place. She didn't give birth to me, but she was my Mother. I was lucky that I had an amazing woman to look up to in life. We joke saying that were becoming like Mamaw more and more each day. But if I am half the woman she was, then I am okay with that. She was hardworking, headstrong, and just plain strong. She outlived two of her three children and her husband. She helped raised all three of her grandchildren and her two great-grandchildren. She was even helping with Lily. I am sad that Lily will not get to know this wonderful strong woman, but she will know who Mamaw was and how much she meant. She was our family's rock. But more importantly she was my best friend.

I miss her everyday, but I know she is watching over me.

--Rue.