My mom passed away on March 5, 2015. I started to make a list early on and I wanted to post it here and continue it as things came to me. This way I'll always be able to remember her and the little things.

• “Flossy” or “Floss”
• Same hairstyle for over 20 years
• “Chair” as “Cheer”
• The greatest bond in the world
• Homemade soup and corn bread
• Favorite color: Blue
• Elvis lover
• Loved the Gaithers
• Jovan Musk
• Skinny
• One of my best friends
• Could always tell my problems to her
• Country music fan
• Loved Martina McBride
• Frozen strawberries
• “Amazing Grace”
• Cigarettes
• Coca-Cola lover
• Hated sweet tea
• Hated beef stew
• Loved raw vegetables
• Ranch dressing
• Best friend: Sharon Guy
• Always cleaning
• Loved to be warm
• Cold toes
• Congestive heart failure
• Getting soaked in the rain at Wal-Mart
• Watching tons of Christmas Cartoons
• That night we watched tons of Christmas Cartoons and ate popcorn
• Camping in the woods with Daddy
• Bon fires on the 4th
• Going to see RHPS at my university
• First copy of my homemade poetry book
• Always drinking out of mugs
• Always curling her hair
• Hairspray galore
• Our old house
• Great Christmases
• Sitting in the car waiting and waiting for them to play John Mayer’s “Waiting on the World to Change”
• Getting stuck on the elevator at the beach when I was 9
• The many doctor visits she went with me on
• Pictures of her holding me so much as a little baby
• Doing a project on her life when I was in middle school
• Trying to dance around the house with me
• Watching Muppet Babies
• Watching Muppet Christmas Carol all the time
• Little Women
• Alvin and the Chipmunks
• She loved me so much
• I was what she lived for
• “Mom seat belts her coffee!”
• Loved coffee
• False teeth
• Decorating the Christmas Tree
• Always cutting my bangs
• Cutting my hair and giving me a mullet
• When I was 4 or 5 and going to sing a song with her on stage at church and I totally choked.
• Strawberries with ranch dressing
• Always picking out our Christmas tree
• Her awesome dinners
• The beautiful crafts she made
• Birthday: July 29, 1959