Happy Mother's Day - FOR SHERRY

Today is a special day boys and girls.  I know that if you're reading this then you're probably on Facebook and you probably have seen the millions of updates testing to what you are about to read.  So for that let me just reiterate what everyone and their dogs have already said.  Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and soon to be mothers out there. To all the women out there that aren't necessarily mother's but have look after and loved someone as if they were.  Because without the mothers of the world out there you wouldn't have some sap like me here writing this blog.  Thanks Mom!

Now that that is out of the way I think that I will use this little bit of time I have before me and my sister take my mom to see the great gatsby to talk about a special lady that I have in my life.  To say that my mom is the best mom in the whole wide world would be quite the understatement.  And I guess from as early on as I could remember I have always been a mama's boy.  Now as hard as my dad tried to boyz n the hood me and make me a man (which he did by the way, I am a man, for all those out there that have something to say about it.) I have been and will always be a mama's boy. 

And it's crazy because the older I get the more I realize that I am so much like my mother it is crazy.  Everything in me that is thoughtful of others, patient, loving, and my love for cooking I get from her.  But don't let all that I just said fool you because my mother can also be a bit of a hard ass (somebody just ask on Christopher Ponder if you don't believe me... Oh and as some of you out there might not know who Christopher Ponder is, that's my father)  And I like to think that I get that from her as well.  

I'd like to tell a few stories about her that I always especially remembered.  When I was a kid I played sports, and my dad was always my coach.  Well my mother didn't always come to my games because she thought that she made me nervous.  And I would always tell her that she didn't but in reality she did.  Whenever I would look up in the stands and she her but there I would always try to throw a little bit harder to strike everyone out or swing a little bit harder to hit a home run for her.  Or if I was on the basketball court shot a little bit more to score points for her.  And of course it always backfired and I always had some of my worse games when she came to watch me play.  And after every game I would go up into the stands to sit by her pouting and she would always tell me how great I played, and I would just smile and give her a big hug.  

I remember my senior night playing basketball she came and I we had the whole senior night ceremony before the game or at halftime or whenever and I was so excited.  You have to understand I wasn't really the greatest of basketball players, I mainly got by because I worked hard and was charlie hustle on the court... But on senior night I was gonna score 20 points for her.  I'm pretty sure a few air balls and ill advised three pointers later I was being hell at by my coach on the bench.  We ended up winning the game and I got back in the game and if i remember correctly my stat line was something like 6pts 7rebs 3assts 5tos it was a pretty pathetic night by anyones standers and after the game I went up into the stands and give my mom a hug, and she told me I was the best on out there.

And that's my mom.  It always has been and always will be, even when I suck, which has been quite a bit she always always thinks that I'm the best. 

I was almost done with college and I came home to hang out with her one weekend.  I was in her room laying in bed bothering her I'm sure when I looked over at her nightstand and saw a framed picture of me with from when I "played" at OU if you want to call it that.  She had went on the internet and printed out the picture of me from the website and put it in a picture frame. Even in one of my biggest failures in my life my mom was still proud enough to frame a picture of me.  

So I'm gonna stop writing right now, because I need to go see Leo get is Gatsby on, but let me just end by saying if you have a mother that is even half as cool as my mom, you need to get your ass on the phone or drive over there right now and tell her you love her.  Because it is the mothers that wiped our butts, and comforted us when we were sick, and cheered us on in whatever we did.  I LOVE YOU MOM, THANKS FOR BEING MY BIGGEST FAN.