Mom's Month

You know, sometimes something really important slips through the cracks. The month of March was a big deal for someone very special to me and my wife and kids... Meme!


first place winners
In late March, Meme (my mom) got a phone call from someone at the Tulsa Libraries. She had entered an essay in their 2008 Adult Creative Writing Contest, and she won first place! The picture above is all the winners, taken after the awards ceremony on April 6... click through to Flickr if you want to see their names.

Anyway, her essay was about her work as a Tulsa Police Department chaplain. Another thing that was due in part to her work with the Tulsa Police happened on March 11... in a small informal ceremony with Pastor Bob, Geoff Jackson and about a dozen friends and family members, my mom was ordained as a minister by Grace Church. We were all so proud! (I didn't take any still pictures... I shot video of the ceremony but don't have an easy way to upload it.)

Congratulations, Meme, and congratulations again! Now that it's April, how are you going to top March?