Dixiegirl's Weblog

It has been a very long time since I posted on my Blog page.  In the fall of 2009, my Mother became very ill and in March of 2010, she lost a very long battle with Carcinoid Cancer.  I am sometimes sad when I think of her, but more often her memory brings a smile [...]

  So being from the South I have always enjoyed the humor of Jeff Foxworthy and Bill Engval.  One of the routines that Bill does is about “stupid people” and how they should wear a sign warning the rest of us.  You know, the ones who ask “You have a flat tire” when they find [...]

Well that is the question—are you a doer or an undoer?  A few posts back I wrote about being a Helicopter parent.  You know, the parent that gets involved when teachers and professors say that they should not.  Well there are two sides to everything, and being a parent, I will usually be found on [...]

This morning I got a hard dose of reality…I found out I was not cool! Seems that I have been misleading myself thinking that I was cool, at least in a retro 80s kind of way.  But I guess my kid differs in opinion.  Surely you remember what it was like, walking 20 feet in [...]

When I told this story to my son, his response was “only you Mom”.  I don’t know, maybe he is right, I do tend to get myself into to some odd, sometimes funny predicaments.  I assure you this predicament was not funny to me at the time. Everyone knows how it works, you fill up [...]

We the people…or rather me the person, the person who wanted to see the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence before I die, actually had that dream realized this past weekend. History is exciting for me, not so much for my husband and son, who accompanied me on this adventure to our nation’s capitol. I [...]

I have a friend who flies helicopters, and I think that is pretty cool, but if you are called a Helicopter Mom or Parent, you are definitely not cool.  Well, I am a Helicopter Mom and I am proud of it!  What is a Helicopter Mom you ask?  Schools or colleges refer to parents they [...]

As kids, my father took my brother and I to more Civil War battlefields than I can remember.  We toured antebellum homes and plantations, museums and mountains. Only once did we cross the Mason Dixon, to visit Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  I loved learning about all of those places.  My brother claims he has seen more cannons [...]