Mama's story Part 2

hi everybody hi mary good morning good morning um we are going to do a little short um version of our mama's story we're going to pick up where we left off but first of all there was a couple things we wanted to say yeah we wanted to tell you that we have ordered some more cookbooks and uh so if you want one go to pinkymalls.comcakes.com on the website and you can pay on paypal on that and then if you want to um don't want to do that or can't get on the internet like that well you could just send a check uh to linda dalton and uh at 149 brooks road in jefferson texas seven five five and we will get your order that way but if you're making phone calls um this morning or any time we are the phone is ringing constantly and during this um video we may be getting some little interruptions for phone calls but we won't stop and answer them so either leave a message or call back because we are just getting one call after the other this morning ordering cookbooks and and our baked goods and we thank you for that and we're we're um our day-to-day primarily is going to be spent baking um so um if we don't answer your call please don't uh think that we're you're not important you are we just have our priorities and that's what we're going to try to do that today and work on that today so um i think that and thank you all again so much this is just a very humbling experience um we're going to pick up mom and daddy where we were talking about parties yesterday and um one of the parties uh uh mama wrote that daddy gave her a little tiny kiss and a cheek on the cheek and remember this was back and you know a long time ago but um it was really sweet when i read it i could almost see my daddy reach over and kiss mama um so um i'm gonna pick up here where um daddy gave mama a silver dollar that uh that night i think they were um at their aunt and uncles at his at my daddy's aunt and uncle and son i was teen and he gave mama a silver dollar that was uh in 1921 which uh was the year he was born and i thought that was really sweet and she said she regressed regret that she guessed she spent it she didn't but um they both had the same birthday right right they was both born yeah the same day both born on july 19th daddy was four years older than mama and um we've already talked about the cars but um uh i want to say this about uh daddy um my daddy did not drink uh he might have drank a beer or two before they got married but i remember one time in our childhood we he had some brothers that drank and they were in our front yard and i remember daddy had a beer in his hand i remember that my mama told him flat out you ever drink another beer there won't be a marriage and she meant it too yeah he knew she meant it he never drank another beer in his life and i mean you know a lot of people drink and hide it my daddy didn't drink no he and he did our family is is whatever you see is what you get we're not phonies no uh and it is you'd have to know our mama to know but but it was daddy knew she meant it um okay so um i'm hoping that i'm not getting ahead of myself but um um well they when they got married ain't elsie i went with them to get married yes they did and but mama told daddy she said um i won't get married unless you ask my daddy uh for my hand in marriage which you know was very customary back then so he was gone somewhere paulie was gone somewhere so she got up real early the next morning and she got a suitcase and she packed it and then she cooked dinner for daddy and she she had to go borrow a cup of sugar from one of their neighbors and uh i think she said it was down the road from fee gartman we some of our followers are are are related to the garments so they'll know what we're talking about is down on cottonham bridge road and but daddy was too nervous to eat so um paul hadn't gotten home yet paulie hadn't gotten home yet and mama was expecting him any minute but daddy was nervous and he was anxious and mama was too so finally paul got there but uncle hebron was with him and that's paulie's brother so that probably even made him that much more nervous because there was an audience but they were in a hurry to get off fishing so daddy cornered paulie and he asked for mama and what mama wrote if he asked for me and um um i don't know why but sometimes this is emotional you'd think after 50 70 years it wouldn't be but um paul told mama that it would daddy that it would be all right if that's what he wanted and he asked ask him to be good to me he gave her twenty five dollars uh daddy did to go get some uh yes paulie paulie gave um uh mama 25 to buy her new dress daddy gave her some money too but paulie gave her 25 and you have to understand that was a lot of money for paulie to pull out of his pocket and give um give to mama and that's what he gave her um and i i really apologize i know that some of this is not going to be in chronological time order but there's a few things on here that i want to say so um this is backing up they this was in in may they got married in may but in march um daddy drove up to my mom and them's house and um she said they only shook hands which i thought that was cute she said they wasn't getting married and they shaking they shook hands can you imagine walking and taking hands with your with your then to be fiance but there was a lot of people there and she said that um he told her that he was going to houston and get a job by the trailer we told y'all yesterday that he got a travel trailer and that he'd back be back after her so he did come back in about two weeks but he still didn't have things quite ready so um uh he drove up to that mon paulie's house on the 23rd of may and he sat in his car and they talked they sit in his car and talk they talked and talked is what she wrote and jesse mama's little baby brother our uncle who is only five years and our oldest brother so he he was almost like a brother to us like we grew up together and they lived with us part of the time he was not quite four years old but he did not like mama sitting in that car with daddy and mama was like a favorite mom was like a a second mama to jesse i mean she was so much older than that i was close to jesse and um he got a long stick and he kept coming out and hitting his car with a stick and daddy had the marriage license so he was going back to serena and the he was going to spend the night at serena with his uncle fred beasley my pinkie mom's sister i mean brother and then he'd be back after me the next morning of course there were no phones or electricity back then so you know it was just um that was just what they did so um uh and this is backing up a little bit here and i'm sorry i keep picking up this piece of paper but i don't want to leave something out that i feel like is important um when when daddy went in the army um it was on june 6 1942 and shortly after then a mama started getting letters from him and i don't know if y'all know this or not but back in the day um when the busloads would leave um for the army the young men and i said young men because most of these were young men uh they wrote their addresses their apo address down on pieces of paper and they throw them out the window you remember mama talking about that i don't remember linda i'm sorry there would be a bunch of girls a bunch of young girls and they would throw these addresses out the window and they girls would scramble to get these addresses and they would write the servicemen and there was a lot of girls that wrote daddy a lot of girls but mama was the one that daddy liked and uh i i didn't see the piece of paper or i don't have it in front of me but daddy told uh mama and he so he told her this many times that she was the most intelligent young man that he had ever the most knowledgeable person he had ever made and mama keep in mind mama never graduated from high school because she had to work but she was a very very smart one right and she and she said the only thing she really regretted in life was that she never uh graduated never did get her diploma and then uh so whenever uh she died and we had her funeral uh that was part of the funeral service uh brother willoughby presented us a diploma for mother saying that because she had graduated from much higher higher power than a uh school diploma you're gonna make me cry mary anyway it was a beautiful service but my mother was very intelligent so um thank you mary's gonna always step in when you see these eyes getting a little red and water coming out of them um she's my strong one so um there would be times that she didn't hear from daddy and you know it was a war going on and their their letters were censored and um there would be times that letters couldn't get out so she would be she would be very worried about him she was so lonesome and um and then let's see here i lost my train of thought so then he wrote her that he would be coming home now keep in mind i'm talking about censored he told her that he would be coming home by the time the wind started to blow so woman knew in march that he would be home so that was good that's how they knew about the time that he would be coming home and um and i'm totally totally skipping around in some of these things i'm saying that i hadn't actually planned to say today but um they came they left out and came in through san francisco you knew that yeah i knew that and the golden gate bridge has always been a really um and i'm you know i'm a texan but the golden gate bridge has always helped a special meaning for me i remember the first time i went over it um i was in working in san francisco and i was going over to um an area that i had to cross the bridge and i wanted that moment to be very special so i planned to go over that bridge at sunrise and i did i i went out there when i went out there i didn't because i know how linda emotional linda gets about it and i just i didn't go over the san francisco bridge when i went out there but uh so um gosh i hope i can do this um so the first thing he knew of course he knew you know that he was getting close to home but that was the first thing he he knew that he was whole when he saw that bridge yeah well anyway i was afraid this is going to be too much for linda but because she's so emotional about her dad um but mother and daddy we had we had a good life but he had some hard times in the in the surface matter of fact daddy um he actually was a cook he was a cook in the army but he still a lot of the things was really traumatic to him that he had to see and and um conquer and everything so it made it just the noise and all made it really bad for dad um i lost his hearing matter of fact my dad lost his hearing in the surface i want to tell something funny now so y'all know that i'm not just a sad person i'm not um i want to tell about um uncle jesse so um um okay here it is i think i found it so um after he went to the service i mentioned this mama was real lonesome and one day she came in from the field they worked in the field and jesse which was her little brother he was about two years old and he came running through the hall and yelled hazel hazel cecil loves you and they and she and she we you got a letter from him and he said he loved you and she said surely mom hasn't opened my mail and of course she hadn't but it must have been a poster it was strictly his no he just oh he just i was okay he just made it up is his word so this was the first letter but i received many more over the next two years she listened to the war news on the radio and cried and prayed many nights and um she had a cigar box full of letters that he wrote her of course they got burnt up in the house but um we thank y'all for listening and thank you for bearing with us as um you know uh we tell this and i skip around and um we will be we will start we actually would probably start on uh after when we start was first mother's first child charles yes well we'll pick up there and pick up there on the next one or when they got we didn't tell about her dress we may mention that on our next one but um thank you all again for watching um please share us with your friends and um um we we really did have a good childhood i can't help it we did we really did and linda she's she's okay y'all worry about her she's i'm just gonna get to work so i ain't gonna have time to be thinking about anything sad so we love y'all and there'll also be another video not live today but we have a video of making that um peanut butter pie yes well we'll post the recipe recipe and us cooking the peanut butter pie and something i didn't tell you uh whenever i did that video uh is that you have to um put you need to put it in the freezer after it's after you make it put it in the freezer because it's just easier to cut and and it doesn't take but a few minutes for it to thaw out when you want a piece and it may be later on this afternoon because we got to get our aprons on and get busy cooking so thank you again thank you have a good day bye-bye

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Published: Mon Jan 25 2021