AUTHOR: Marty, a.k.a. canape TITLE: This one's for the poop DATE: 8/16/2007 01:14:00 PM ----- BODY:
Heh. My mom reads my blog. And I love that she comments sometimes. Really, the whole telling the story of how I pooped in my training pants and then flushed them down the toilet was pretty funny. At least she didn't tell about me flushing my Fisher Price people down the toilet. For apparently no reason.

But, in light of our honesty, I have something share. It was in the box. The box my former MIL sent to me that she had been storing for many years. In between the Sweet Pickles books and my ONJ albums was sandwiched this:


The program for the 1960 Miss Arkansas pageant. What daughter would not be proud to say they had a beauty queen for a mother? I am. I think it is pretty cool. And she is by far the best looking one in the group. Of course we are talking about Arkansas.

Here she is in all of her stunning glory:

I only wish that the picture showed the dress too, because my grandmother Honey made all of her clothes. Even the evening gowns, and they were incredible.

My momma has gone out of her way though, to be known for something more than her looks. She doubled majored in piano and Christian education. She taught, she worked, and when my Bro and I were out of the nest, she went back to school and got her Masters of Divinity. She's a smart cookie. And a lovely cookie too. I mean, look at those eyebrows and the teeth that didn't need braces. Amazing.

So she didn't go on to be Miss America. She did have a couple of other great articles written about her that made her cringe and made her mother radiate pride. As Momma was busy studying in college, she had to put up with articles that praised her "deft hand with make up" and her "shiny well kempt hair." Oh, the tortured life of the beautiful! However, they did leave out her GPA and ability to whip up a snappy comeback to just about anything.

Not being Miss America, or even Miss Arkansas for that matter wasn't something she regreted I don't think. Perhaps the only thing she missed out on were the photo shoots. Because the pinnacle of every woman's life should be this Pepsi ad:

Be sociable, Have a Pepsi

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----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous slouchy DATE:Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 3:04:00 PM EDT Aww, those pictures are lovely. Better that she didn't win the Miss USA pageant...she clearly had better things to do with her life, yes? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous MB DATE:Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 3:16:00 PM EDT Eeew? Pepsi? You would clearly be in a DIET COKE ad, right? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous slackermommy DATE:Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 4:13:00 PM EDT How cool! I would be proud also. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Oh, The Joys DATE:Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 5:01:00 PM EDT My mom was Miss Teenage New Jersey.

Oh, the baggage I had. You are a better woman Canape! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Mamma DATE:Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 5:29:00 PM EDT Every time we here about Momma she gets more and more interesting.

PS--Her daughter ain't so bad herself. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Lisa DATE:Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 6:13:00 PM EDT Awwww... Now I know where you get YOUR hot mama genes! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Bon DATE:Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 7:55:00 PM EDT your mom is gorgeous, and you are hilarious.

as is the Pepsi ad.

i love the whole weird veneer of feminity that permeates that Miss Arkansas program - what a great thing to find in the box. keep it for Little Bird.

:) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous WhyMommy DATE:Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 8:08:00 PM EDT What a neat thing to find! I can TOTALLY see your mom in that picture. The one of her, I mean. Not the one with the Pepsi. Niiiiiiiiiice. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous gail DATE:Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 10:48:00 PM EDT That is the coolest thing eev-a! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous pastormargaret DATE:Friday, August 17, 2007 at 9:47:00 AM EDT Thanks alot! You are full of surprises. I guess I had it coming. Yes, the Pepsi shoot would have been too much for someone whose mom drove to five drive-in windows before finding the much preferred Diet Coke. Did the Fisher Price join the monster in the toilet? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Cathy DATE:Friday, August 17, 2007 at 12:32:00 PM EDT I am loving her eyebrows.

We here in Arkansas still love our pageants, although the newspaper coverage isn't quite as ... extensive?!

I will continue to resist, however, my in-laws' efforts to enter my daughter in the Little Miss Buck Fever pageant. She would never forgive me if she won and had to live with that title. (It refers to the opening of deer season, which is when the pageant is held. As the contestants march across the stage, you can hear the boom of gunfire. And the daddies in the audience are wearing blood-stained camo.) ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Jennifer, Playgroups Are No Place For Children DATE:Friday, August 17, 2007 at 3:50:00 PM EDT Your Mother is gorgeous! ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Bubblewench DATE:Monday, August 20, 2007 at 7:19:00 AM EDT Your mother is so beautiful. She is awesome. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR:Anonymous Ally DATE:Monday, August 20, 2007 at 10:48:00 PM EDT I love it when you write about your beautiful, wonderful mom. I'm living vicariously through your mother-daughter relationship. Hope you don't mind. :) ----- --------