Happy Mother’s Day

Most of us remember our mama’s cooking something special. One of my favorites was peanut butter cookies that came out of the oven puffy and hot and she would take a regular kitchen fork and mash some crisscross marks on top of the cookies.

Did those crisscross marks make them more delicious or was that the way her mama made them? Now, our Dianne Dunagan can make a mouth-watering, just sweet enough, coconut cake, but my mama added a little something to hers.

She always bought a coconut at the store, cracked it open and gave us a little taste of the coconut milk like an appetizer before she would grind the fruit of the coconut for the final product.

If you don’t know, this Sunday, May 13th, is Mother’s Day. Mother is quite a title, most of the time not the royal type. They can be your birth mother, an adoptive mother, a step-mother, a foster mother, a relative or friend that assumes the role. Mothers come in all shapes, sizes and ages.

And regardless of the time in between, there is always the comfort of her hug that suddenly sends you back many years. My mother will be 101 years old on her birthday so I have had many of those hugs.

Do something nice for your community Saturday, May 12 and you don’t have to do hardly anything besides take some non-perishable food and put it in your mailbox or put a note notifying your mail carrier that you want to donate to their yearly drive appropriately named, “Stamp Out Hunger” and they will collect it from you.

Or if you are in town, you can drop it off at the post office anytime. The food will be donated to the Jasper County Community Food Bank. Any questions call locally 706-468-1832 or search on your computer, “www.stampouthungerfooddrive.us”.

Have a Happy Mothers Day, Monticello MOMS.