Midweek Blues~April 25, 2012-Blue flowers for Mom

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Midweek Blues ~ blue flowers for Mom

On Monday my husband and I took  flowers out for Mom.

It was a rainy and gloomy day, so it was a quick visit, but I wanted to go since

I had last been there just before Christmas. I was dismayed and saddened to find that her flowers which I had taken  then had been removed.

This place removes flowers if they become faded or blown out of the one vase that's allowed!

(the vase goes down inside the  flat monument when not in use, leaving just the flat and bare plaque!  It just made me sad to see that)

I hope to be able to get out more often  to insure this not happening again.

Still miss you, my sweet mom!

Love,

Junie

Mom's Christmas flowers-2011

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Mom's Christmas flowers-2011

The month of December is 'getting on with it,' and I'm falling behind with everything - even more so than usual! 

  I decided I needed to get Mom's Christmas flowers out  today, before time completely got away from me!  Charles was happy and willing to take me, and we had an enjoyable time together, though, of course, it was shadowed with some sadness.  Still, I felt better, having brightened that little spot up for this holiday!

~Love and miss my Mom~

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Junie

Christmas memory of Mom-

Christmas memory of Mom

June Kellum   (from Face Book)

♥▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬♥ஜ۩۞۩ஜ♥♥ஜ۩۞۩ஜ♥▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬♥ There are moments in life when you wish you could bring someone down from Heaven. Spend the day with them just one more time, give them one more hug, kiss them goodbye or hear their voice again, or even a text. One more chance to say I LOVE YOU. Copy and paste in remembrance of someone who is not here.

Love You, Mom!


Junie

Mom and "Fashion Frocks"~

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Recently I posted this picture of my sister and me on FB as my profile picture!  :) 

I like to change my pictures there often and it's usually without a predetermined idea or plan... I just go looking in my family pictures! I'm often drawn to the Way Back times of our lives. It was that way with this picture change.

Seeing the picture again brought back memories of those little dresses we were wearing! We didn't have a lot in those times so I suppose that's why I remember this so vividly! They were both of a cotton  material. 

(Cotton Pi cay???...

I know that's not the correct spelling...:(    )

My dress was a combination of white and aqua and my sister's was, mostly, baby blue. Mom always managed somehow to get pretty things for us - bless her!

OK-Remembering our dresses of this time brought back memories of our mom  selling dresses for a company called "Fashion Frocks." It was one of those deals where you could sell merchandise to family and neighbors and friends from your home! You would be supplied with  catalogs and sample swatches of the clothing materials to show your customers. It seems like Mom was into this for quite some time and I remember her being involved in this from the mid 40's....when I was very young.  I liked looking through those books and being able to feel the material of the dresses pictured. Mom would sometimes use some of the money she made with the sales to buy herself a new dress.

I'm not sure if this company carried childrens clothing, though; so I'm not sure where Mom bought these dresses for my sister and me!

I looked up Fashion Frocks online and found a lot of info is out there about this company that came wandering back into my memories today!  Check out the link!

  Notice the size of the women's waists-and the lengths of their legs in these illustrations!  LOL

To this day I have never been able to  reach the status that would qualify me as some folks idea of what a woman is supposed to look like!  Have you?  ;) - OK-In my youth I DID have a small waist....but everything else was small too ....so I guess that didn't count for much!  :)  At my tallest I was barely over 5 ft tall!  :)

Mom, too, was a little lady...but always beautiful!  

This is my mom and dad in 1950.

This is my mom and me in 1972. 

Love,

Junie

Mom's Christmas flowers

 (post from Junie's Place-Dec 6, 2010)

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Today my daughter, Tina, and I took flowers for our Ma-Ma.  It's always a bittersweet event-bringing Mom flowers but I always will-as long as I'm able.

  Joy, my sister, was unable to come with us because of a medical appointment with her husband. 

Tina and I also did quite a bit of shopping today. I appreciated her taking me out because I really do not like driving a lot.  We had a fun day Christmas shopping -and just being together for a few hours! Oh-and we had both breakfast and lunch out-lol- We really made a day of it!  :)

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Here we are at home and later with Mom's flowers.

Love,

Junie

Flowers for Daddy!

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Every year we go to Alabama in early August for my husband's family reunion...

... and I also have the time to take flowers to my dad's grave.


It's been so many years now since he left us!
It was much too early...
It seems strange to realize that I am now almost 10 years older than Dad was when he left us!

Always in our hearts, Daddy...


Love,
June

About Ma-Ma

Thinking of Mom...

Today is the 6th. anniversary of Mom's leaving us. In many ways it seems much longer.I can honestly say there has never been a day I have not thought of her and missed her and wished she could still be here with us all.

So many things have happened since she passed on...so much sadness within the family...

This is a picture I found tonight of a happy day for all of us! I believe this was the second birthday/reunion party we had for her. It was Jan.6th, 1990, on her 81st. birthday!

She , so, looked forward to these reunions every year and we were able to share this with her for 12 years! She loved having all the kids, grand kids, and great grand kids come-as well as other relatives and friends. Our little farm was the perfect place for a bunch of folks to get together! :)

Here is Mom with her 5 'Kids!'



Love,

June Bug
( Junie )

Thinking of Mom~2008

Thinking of mom ~ 2008

Mom has been gone, now, more than 5 years...and I still think of her every day! And she's on my mind more than ever as this Mother's Day draws near!

This was one Mother's Day we had together ... Mom was almost always with us on special days!

I miss you, Mom!

I wrote this in memory of our sweet Ma-Ma!

It's been posted a few times here but this is for Mom so I'm putting it here again! The roses I saved were the last ones we could give her!

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Mom’s Last Roses

These are Mom’s last roses.

I kept a little part

of all the roses given,

from every grieving heart.

I handled them so gently

and dried them - as you see.

I found the perfect basket-

arranged them carefully.

I found the sweetest ribbon,

and made this fancy bow-

attaching it, expertly!

It had to be - just so!

It had to turn out special,

and easily convey…

how much I do still love her

and miss her every day!

These are Mom’s last roses.

They’ll always be a part

of all my memories of her

and the sorrow in my heart.

June Kellum

Sept. 2005

5 Years Today

SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008
5 Years Today

Today is the 5th anniversary of Mom's leaving us. The date had not hit me until my sister reminded me tonight!

I never would have thought this day could slip by without me remembering but I know Mom would understand and forgive me with all this sorrow that's in my heart with the recent events in our community.

Mom would be so hurt to know of the loss of these young men's lives....It wouldn't matter that she had not known them- just as it doesn't matter that I didn't know them!

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The picture is Mom and me in 1977...31 years ago!

...This puts Mom's age here just about a year older than I am now!

Folks say I look like my mom ~ and I say, "Thanks!" :)


Love,
Junie

Remembering Daddy~2007

On all our trips to Alabama we take flowers for my dad....so it was a part of this trip too.

Most of his family are buried here and most of Mom's are too! They both grew up in this area of Alabama (Springville~about 100 miles north of Birmingham) and knew each other most of their lives.

Mom's original plan was to be buried here but in her later life she decided she belonged in Florida...I think she wanted to remain close to her kids here!

...and I guess it doesn't matter...

I visit each spot as often as I am able!

Always in my heart ~my mom and dad~

Love,

June