Happy Mother's Day

Hey Hooks, its that time again!  Time to celebrate that one day for your Mom!  Thought I'd put up a list of great gifts and some not great gifts.  Here goes.

1.  Take Mom out to eat a wonderful all you can eat fried catfish lunch.  DO NOT take her all the the catfish YOU can eat and ask her to fry them.

2.  Mom loves flowers.  Take a bunch you've picked.  DO NOT pick them from her prized flower bed she has worked on for years.

3.  How about cleaning the house for her.  DO NOT ask her to come over and clean yours after church.

4.  Get her a spa day.  Mom loves manis and pedis.  DO NOT buy her some fingernail polish from WalMart and sling them at her saying, "Looking a little faded there, Mom."

5.  Mom might like a nice set of good smelling soaps and lotions from Bath and Body Works or some girlie store.  DO NOT buy her a tub of GOJO from the local auto parts store and leave it on the kitchen sink.

6.  Have your little Hooks make her a card in their own handwriting with little things written by them.  DO NOT have them scribble something on the back of the church bulletin.

7.  Take Mom out 4 wheeler riding.  Mom likes mud too.  She is a Southern Hook after all.  DO NOT ask her to push you when you get rutted out and spray mud in her face.

8.  Pay for Mom to get her hair fixed.  You know colored and cut.  DO NOT toss her a box of Loreal hair dye you found in the 1/2 half bin and say, "Roots are showing there, Mom."

9.  Take some old pictures of your family and put them in a nice frame and hang it on Mom's wall.  DO NOT collage pictures from your phone and throw them up on Instagram or Facebook.

10.  Just give Mom a big hug and a kiss on the cheek and say proudly, "Mom thank you for everything you've ever done for me.  I love you."  DO NOT end this heart felt sentiment with, "What's for lunch?"

Happy Mother's day, Mom.  I love and miss you.

Stay Southern, Hooks.

-JD