Memorial Day Weekend

I've decided I should write a post about something so I'm going to write about what an absolutely hysterical time Memorial Day was in the ATL.

The festivities took place at Kingsland, my mother's parents house on Kingsland Court in Vinings, GA, and BaaBee, my grandmother, decided she would invite lots of friends. So who was there? Well, Momma, Daddy, Giles, Margaret, Vivian, and PeggyDee and BaaBee and DanDan, of course. Now the company included Becky, her nurse Shwana, Joan Palmer, who went to high school with BaaBee, her daughter, Gail, who owns the Pottery Shop and Doodlebug in Symrna, and cousin Karen. Let me just say it was quite a crowd. For those of you who have ever asked me how people are in the South, especially women, this was the epitomy of Southern women. Everything relates to a story and oh, did you know so and so and it's the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life, it addition to hoping in some odd way that I'll turn out just the same. A Southern woman who has seen her fair share of history, had some adventures along the way and just happens to know some incredible people and many of them well known, famous or only so in their own mind. :-)

I got to hear about Joan's "home," MLK, Jr.'s secretary, stories from the first female air traffic controller to Hartsfield Airport, learned about some new connections of friends who sing for the MET and conduct, stories of playing for Robert Shaw, discovering penicillin in Alabama before it was discovered in London and the list keeps going. The amazing thing is that it all comes from people in my family. Isn't my family cool?! I love family gatherings, they're so hysterical, you hear great stories and you manage to learn something along the way.

Anyway, that was my weekend in a nutshell, in addition to a voice lesson Saturday, singing in church and several times over again Sunday evening at church and for the lovely Tenney family and getting back to work at NGPC this morning. :-)

I hope everyone's having a wonderful summer!