Blog for Sister

My sister Peggy keeps wondering when I'm going to add to my blog again. I told her I just didn't have anything to say. "Oh, but you're a journalism major", she says...that doesn't mean I can just come up with something to blog out of thin air.

So, just so she'll have something to read, here are some thoughts.

Our dear Aunt Burtis passed away a couple of weeks ago. She tried to mother us Newman kids a little bit after our own mother (her little sister) passed away 10 summers ago. P-Sue, remember when we were little how we used to say if anything happened to Mother and Daddy, we would go live with Aunt Burtis and Uncle Junior? Remember how when we fussed in the car on the long, long way home from Hattiesburg, Daddy would say "Are y'all going to visit each other when you grow up like your mother visits her sister or are y'all just going to fuss and not visit each other?" I vote for the former...visiting my sister's homey and comfy home is something I love to do. I told her once that her home is company-friendly and conducive to good visiting. I meant it.

My mother's entire immediate family, including grandchildren and their spouses, except for our brother, was there for Aunt Burtis' service. She would have been proud; our children loved this aunt very much, too. Our brother wasn't there because his car had been in an accident (a friend had borrowed it). We missed him greatly, but understood. It would have been a long, long walk for him; it's a 4-hour drive!

But...maybe we'll get to see little brother before too long...and hear him play the piano! Stay tuned...I may have something to blog about before too long!