First 5K - YAY!

 No not me! - or you would've heard it on the news (lol) - but my daughter. She ran her first 5K (YAY!) Sunday, June 24, 2012 in the Baltimore Women's Classic Race* .

 waiting for Mommy to cross the finish line

 MADE IT!

 

Surrounding Mommy with our love and support!

*The Baltimore Women's Classic helps improve the quality of daily life for families engaged in gynecologic cancer treatment by providing services, such as transportation, grocery shopping, meal preparation, house cleaning and prescription drug co-payment. The race promotes a healthy spirit in our community where runners, volunteers and race organizers help women of all ages and abilities take strong steps toward a healthier lifestyle.

Mother's Day 2011

Dear Son and Dear Daughter with me on Mother's Day 2011

On Mother's Day 2011, I had ALL of my children--my children, my children's spouses, my children's children--with me. I was quite happy.

My 15 minutes of fame! -

On Page 6 of the "Mid-Atlantic Regional Connection" a newsletter for the Mocha Moms, Inc. I am mentioned ---alongside my daughter---for participating in a public awareness event for Infant Mortality. I am excited to have participated and to have been acknowledged as a Mocha "Mom-Mom" (smile). Thanks Daughter and Mochas for including me!

THE BACK STORY

Lately I have been trying to "find myself" as this stage of life is commonly called. Frankly I know exactly where I am! I am a very educated, talented, smart, funny African American woman of a "certain age" trying to make this time of life meaningful. It is not lost on me that people (my children) are watching how I handle and navigate this.

So one day my DD shoots me an email suggesting that I might be interested in a public awareness project on Infant Mortality. Certainly I thought, I could easily make the 10 hats requested and hopefully before I left on vacation. But as I was packing I decided to take yarn with me "just in case I had a moment". Well we know flying is about waiting these days and I had plenty of time! So my project went from making ten hats to "how many can I get made before the mailing deadline?" My DD says I was getting obsessed clearly she's right because I had to make myself stop at 70!

THE NEWSLETTER ARTICLE

Chapter Spotlights
Mocha Grandmother "Hats Off"

Almost 2 months ago Southern DC Mocha Claudia Booker sent out a Mocha SOS for the "Heads Up on Infant Mortality Public Awareness Project" for Wash-ington DC. She asked Mochas to knit or crochet in-fant hats. These hats would be given to the local hos-pital NICU’s. Mocha Claudia posted the request on the Yahoo Group to get the word out. [One Mocha] shared the request with her mother in [another state]...Last week Mocha Claudia received 70 beautiful infant hats ... As an added bonus, this Mocha Grandmother has decided to help head this project for the NICU babies in [her home state]! "HATS OFF" to Mocha Claudia for serving the "Head’s Up" project from the heart, to [our] Mocha for sharing her mom, [and ] for [her mom for] being [such] an angel for the NICU babies!

Getting started...

So my daughter blogs. I am quite happy to receive her new blog entries and even happier to see how well she writes and expresses herself. so I wanted to try it. Do I have to tell you that this is almost two years later!? Today I'm sitting in her dining room having her tell me step by step. Not that it is really hard but I tried it twice before and still nothing. I want to write. I think of writing everyday and yet here I am stuck on what to call it, what to say, what the url address should be (U-R-L?) my BFF-R mentioned yesterday that I think too much. Clearly!