I love that little ginger kitteh icon.

Anyway, onto the awesome.

I keep expecting someone to slap me and tell me that Obama didn't win. I wonder if this is what it was like when Kennedy was elected. Hmm. *knocks on wood*

Today I bring you all sorts of things in my life update including a tasty herbal tea recipe to get you on your feet when you have a ( Read more... )

I woke up in a new world today. A world were I can say my neice can become president, and MEAN it. Pardon me if I feel like my soul is swelling and brimming with National Pride. I kind of want to go out and get myself some flag pins.

I was MORE than touched about all the responses to yesterday's post. It was only meant to share my feelings before ( Read more... )

 
Dear Ella,

You may not know me, but today I vote for you.

Because you could not.

I'm voting for you because you had no say over your body. I'm voting for you because your mother, also named Ella picked cotton and raised children in fear. I'm voting for you because as a poor sharecropper in the deep south voting was dangerous for you even if ( Read more... )

So T's Mom, my future Momma in law, just sent us a reminder about T's Dad's birthday. The way she worded it was cute and really touching. You see because T's sister is also engaged...to a Joe no less. And she reminded us that he would soon be our Dad in law. Which made me think of something ( Read more... )

Okay, so I've been insanely busy, and Delia was here, and my Mother sent me a round trip fare to see my sister, and I was stompy and...

*sigh*

I realized I was being a tad neglectful of all my friends. So um...sorry?

Forgive me and blame it on the fact that not one, but BOTH of my laptops have up and died. Although ironically the laptop that ( Read more... )

So yes, updates for all. But quick updates since I don't want to be near T's computer. I'll explain why in a second ( Read more... )

So for all interested parties here is my new Nephew Ryan Lawrence.  8lbs even. Doesn't beat Auntie's 10lbs, but it was close.

Thanks to everyone for the warm congrats!


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*coughs*

Ladies and gents, I am an Auntie again.

Welcome to the world Ryan Lawrence.

I hear you are a freaking huge baby.

It is scary when I think about it.

My family came to Elizabeth in the late twenties. Apart of the Great Migration, the Smiths packed up their children and relocated here where business was booming and the living was better. My grandmother grew up poor and Black in the Great Depression, and my mother grew up angry in the Vietnam era. We have been ( Read more... )

I don't even know how to explain this. I- I can't ( Read more... )