I have decided that in honor of my mother, Donna Faye McElwaney and her birthday on January 18th, I am going to do a free photoshoot giveaway this month WOOT WOOT....First I want to tell you why I am doing this and then I will tell you how you can win the free photoshoot!!! Basically to make a VERY long story, a little short.... My mom was not in my life from the time I was a little girl up until I was in my twenties and decided that I wanted to find her! One day I just decided that I wanted to know where my mom was, started doing some digging and found my pappaw's wrecker service in the phone book, in ATL, called and asked him if he knew where she was and he told me yes, but not the answer that I wanted, he told me that she was in jail....Now before I go any further I will tell you that my papaw that I talk about is my mom's father and I had not seen him in a long time either because I was not raised in GA, I was raised in TN....So basically my mom's whole side of the family was like strangers to me...Ok, back on track, I finally got in touch with my mother in jail and we began wrting back and forth, talking on the phone when she could and she even would make Kaleb and me some little knick-knacks in her spare time and send to us:o) It went pretty well, considering the situation we were in, I mean to finally find my mother after so long and her be in jail was pretty devastating to me, but I just went along with it like it was all pretty normal. This actually went on for quite some time. It came to a point, though, where she got sick, so sick that she had to be put into the hospital....Her mom called us and we went down to visit....On the way down, so many thoughts went through my mind, like so many questions that I wanted to ask her...When we got to GA and got to the hospital, its like this sudden mad feeling came over me....We went up to the room and I was actually ok for a little while....We (Joe, Kim and I) walked in and I will never forget that first glimpse of her, it was like seeing a complete stranger, as hard as that is for me to say. I walked over and just looked at her and say hey. She looked so different from what I expected. She looked so sick! She was so yellow, her whole body, her hair, her eyes, her arms, everything, it was not what I wanted my mom to look like....We talked for a bit, very short words, and then there they came, the questions just started coming out and the mad feeling....She was falling asleep from the medicine that she was on and that made me even madder, she couldn't even stay awake to answer the questions that I had waited my whole life to have answered....I stormed out, Kim and Joe behind me and we left....This was not good! I cannot believe this is the way it had to be, and it was because I couldn't hold back my feelings and my anger!!! It's like it had been bottled up for so long and it had to be let go...We went back to TN and I didn't feel good about myself at all.... She ended up getting out of the hospital a few days later and we got to visit a couple more time within the next couple weekends before she passed away on October 1st 2006. I quickly realized that even though my mother made alot of mistakes by me and my sister and also for herself that she is only human, like all the rest of us...I didn't need my silly questions answered to feel better, I only wish now that I would've just spent the time with her that I could and spent it like mother and daughter should....I often get jealous of many of my friends when I see or here of them doing things with their mothers or even for their mothers....I just thank GOD daily that he gave me the mother that he did and blessed me to get to spend the time with her that he did...I miss her so much, noone will ever know!!
Now, onto the good part....How can you win the free photoshoot??? Well, all you have to do is write a letter to your mom of why she is so special to you!! If there is a specific time that you can remember that she has just melted your heart or if it's just every single day that you wish you could tell her something but don't well here's your chance, it's whatever your heart desires... You will need to submit your story in 800 words or less to cnfphoto@yahoo.com by January 17th 2010....The winner will be announced on January 18th, 2010! Make sure and put the subject of your e-mail as "the butterfly story"!!! There will also be an extra little give away for the winner when they are announced!!!Now, remember write this in a letter format just as if you were writing it to your mother....I CANNOT wait to read these...Good luck!!
<3 Christy
~If things never changed, there would be no butterflies
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