- Newport cigarettes
- Pajamas for Christmas Eve presents
- 24hrs of A Christmas Story on Christmas Eve
- Complaints about how much her back hurts
- A hacking smoker's cough
- Reddish hair with grayish white roots
- Croc shoes
- Giorgi vodka
- Homemade cheesecake
- Jamaican meat patties
- Stuffed rigatoni
- White rice, red beans, and chicken cutlets
- Her being the best damn cook
- V.C. Andrews books
- ABC Soap Operas
- Very clean house
- Her referring to me as, "My baby!"
- Her saying "mother fuck" and leaving off the "er"
- Her always being sick
- The fact that she's not perfect but she loves me perfectly
- Her calling young kids "Silly Goose"
- Her saying, "I think NOT!"
- Her always landing a kiss on my ear by mistake and it feeling like a suction cup
- Her sacrificing so much for the kids
- The smell of Vicks and Bengay being like her signature scent
- Her go to threat was, "I'll knock you into next week"
- Her doing the finger point when dancing
- How she loved watching Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, and anything having to do with the ocean like Shark Week
- How she couldn't swim but loved the ocean
- Anything regarding nurses because she was a nurse
- She would always leave me voicemails at the worst times that usually started with, "Yeah...hi...this is your mother...pick up the damn phone"
- She would walk me to the bus stop in the mornings and wait for me to get on to go to school well into my teens
- She always did the holidays very big, especially Christmas, with tons of decorations, lots of presents, and the best food
- The songs, Shower Me With Your Love by Surface, and Superwoman by Karyn White
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation was her favorite Christmas movie
- She loved to watch and sing to musicals like Grease and West Side Story
dec 11 2013 ∞
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