So the title of this was supposed to be mother’s day CONtest! but i couldnt get the CON to be uppercase…keep reading and it’ll make sense but i LIKED that title dang it! OK, soooo ill try to do this justice while not making it toooo terribly sad but it’s gonna be kinda hard…here goes it=)!
Alright one of my high school friends, Sarah, and i have lived reeeeallly super similar lives…i.e. her dad is a CPA in town, my dad is a CPA in town, her mom worked for her dad and still was able to STAY happily married..LOL…my mom works for my dad and still able to STAY happily married, her mom is THAT mom that always got her girls matching PJs to wear at Christmas even after they were grown, my mom is THAT mom that had christmas cookie decorating parties when i was little and Christmas Cookie Classes for me and my friends when we needed to learn for our kids! Her mom was AS excited anticipating her future grandkids as my mom IS doting on her grandkids! My mom had run into her at office depot or somewhere and she had my kids and Sarah’s mom went nutso over them and told my mom how very READY she is to be a grandmother as well! She WOULD absolutely have been that grandmother that builds a tribal hut in the woods for the grandkids summertime fun (note:if you dont follow us on fb my mom just did this for my kids)…i have copied and pasted from Sarah’s facebook page to make sure i get the REAL point accross as to what a special mom she has! Then i will EXPLAIN what we NEED from my wonderful facebook fans, blog followers, etc….now from Sarah’s page…
My life has changed a lot within the past year. My very best friend and hero, my mother, passed away this year very unexpectedly. There were no symptoms, no signs, no answers. God just took her and one day we will understand why. My dad, sister, and I continue to struggle on a minute by minute basis. We miss the person that was always there for us no matter what, who put herself LAST when anyone was concerned, but also knew how to make us laugh uncontrollably! She was also the kindest, most gentle person I have ever known or will know. As my future mother in law puts it, “she set the bar TOO high that no one will EVER be able to fill her shoes!” I miss my mother so much that there are no words. I am a ticking bomb sometimes, never knowing when I will cry, but I know she is happy where she is…it’s us who suffer! My life has also changed in that I am going to marry my very best friend this year. Travis is special to me, not only because I knew him when he was 8 and I was 10 and that he was at my house a lot growing up, but because of how he has dealt with me during this great turmoil of my life. Trav has shown me how much he truly loves me by being there, saying the right things, and just loving me no matter how hard I push sometimes. He has been there every step of the way even when I have been a monster to deal with. Emotional stress can make you that way! SO on Oct. 24, 2009 I will marry my best friend and lover! And I can’t wait!!! I will be Sarah Stinnett…who’d of ever thought!!! Especially when he used to ask me out in 04 and 05 and I always turned him down! ha, God has a plan!!!!
The night of the funeral it all just hit waaaay too close to home given our eerily similar lives and i went to the funeral w/my mom and literally (kinda wierd for me bc i can maintain kind of a hard as* on the outside like my dad sometimes)BUT i literally LOST it in the parking lot just telling my mom bye to go home! They had an amazing slide show of all the memories Connie (Sarah’s mom) had lived, captured, with and for her husband and girls and it hit me like a TON of BRICKS….after my mom finally talked me into a state where i could possibly drive back to knoxville (about 30 min away) i raced over to my office and emailed Sarah that her mom just BEING THAT mom made me realize that i was soooooo SUCKED into my business i didnt know my a** from a hole in the ground and that i needed to get my sh** together! That’s about when laura and i started hiring and firing left and right so i could TRY (note: still TRYING but doing better)to run my business that i LOOOOVE and be a mommy to the kids that i ADORE! I remember what the t-shirt said that i was making when my mom called me stunned and nearly speechless that someone had just told her of Connie’s death! It was that kind of SHOCK and unexpected tragedy! Still honestly blows my mind! And it all just kinda in my head relates to my business bc Connie was a regular reader or “pointless blogs by emtanner”…LOL…everytime i sound like a sailor i used to think…”sorry Connie Overholt” bc Sarah had told me that she and her mom were addicted to my pointless ramblings..well she didnt say that but we all know that’s what it is=)..haha!
So now Sarah is married to Travis and they are ready to start working on Connie’s (and Lonas’…that’s Sarah’s daddy…not doing him much justice here am i…Sorry Lonas=) grandkidlets! Sarah and I have always had this odd friendship in that we have lived in different places and totally been in different worlds probably since high school but we have always kept up via mail, email, etc…It’s wierd bc it’s like no time has lapsed when we do talk,email, etc….it’s one of those ya know “comfortable friends”…for instance…(and she is maybe gonna wanna kick my you know what but this will definitely lighten the mood)…the other day she emailed me to ask me some questions about the “trying to get pregnant process” bc im well pretty dang good at it..LOL…and she said ya know you are one of the only people besides my mom that i honestly feel like i could just call and ask if it is normal that i have grapes coming out of my butt…LMAO…just to clear up! it was a figure of speech..Sarah does NOT have grapes coming out of her butt…well not YET anyway, but i assured her that it might be normal after a couple kiddies..haha…and then went on to explain to her how i stood on my head to be SURE it “took” when i wanted to be pregnant YESTERDAY with hadly! and it worked! Soooooo now i am sure you get the idea that we are quite comfortable w/each other! LOL..we can always continue to be REAL with each other and hide well pretty much NOTHING even though we dont see each other on regular basis these days…
NOW with all that said…Sarah asked me to get my creative wheels turning and help her and Travis think of both boy and girl names that have CON (for Connie) somewhere in it…doesnt have to begin w/ “CON”..just has to have “CON” in it!! That kinda thing is right down my alley BUT it is pretty dang hard after pondering it for like a week i am not doing so hot….sooooooooo i couldnt think of a better contest for MOTHER’S Day at EMTanner Designs bc i do have quite amazing peeps that help me out a lot! soooo now i want YOU to help SARAH name that baby in the works after her special mommy, CONNIE! And in the meantime don’t let everyday BS get in the way of you and your kiddies even though we ARE raising kids in a superduper hectic crazy day in time…STOP and smell the roses! be THAT mom! MY MOM and CONNIE are THAT MOM and look how great me and sarah (and laura..sarah’s little sis) turned out!!! JUST KIDDIN’!ha! Oh and just to make you want to help w/names even more Sarah WILL be THAT MOM without a doubt! She needs like 5 or 6 i think!
SO post your thoughts here or on a facebook NOTE that ill be adding labeled CONtest..C’mon guys blow us away! we will randomly pick someone who played with us to win a $100 gift certificate in honor of her mommy, CONnie!=)…GAME IS ON…let’s name that Stinnett baby to be! I know i can count on you guys! get creative!!!! Cannot WAIT to see what you come up with!!!
