Sunday, January 11, 2015

Barbara Slabaugh


It goes without question that I must write some thoughts and memories about my Mom-mom as she waits for Jesus to call her through the “pearly gates” she’s been yearning for the last couple weeks. I still feel kind of weird calling her “Mom-mom,” when everyone else refers to her as “Grandma.” I don’t think it really hit me that the name I use for her is all that unique until I left Delmarva and discovered that “mom-mom” is lingo largely native of Sussex County. I was taught to call her “Mom-mom,” and since I’ve only ever called her by that name I won’t stop now.