Anita Shropshire-Towery...

We all have our good days and bad, thinking about not being able to see your beautiful face. We find all these post you'd left, letters you had written, pictures and old gifts. Those are the moments that we know, your watching over us because a part of you, will always live in our hearts. I will never forget the things that you taught me and the things that I will soon pass on to my two little girls. They miss you like crazy. You haven't been gone that long at all but I still feel like you are here all the time. I was talking to Kimberly and she was telling me about how she still wants to pick up the phone and call you all the time and then she realizes the bitter truth, she isn't here to call anymore. I feel the same way. In a different way, on the other hand, I feel that God gave me Anita when my dad was drinking, so that I she could watch over me and keep me safe. My mom says that she would've never let me stay every weekend with dad but she knew that you were going to take care of me. I miss you telling me that I needed to wear my hair in a ponytail all the time and then as I got older you used to tell me to wear my hair down. You'd tell me that you would beg me as a kid to get it out of my eyes, and she couldn't keep a hair bow in my hair for nothin', but now I won't ever take it down. You used to just look at me and smile and rub my hand and tell me how beautiful I was. You'd tell me that you didn't care what anyone thought, that I was your daughter, blood or not. Even after you and dad got that divorce, you were always there with open arms and a place to stay if dad got to drunk while it was just me and him living together. You taught me what cradle cap was on my oldest daughter. You showed me so many things that I pass on and use on a daily bases. God gave me you for only a short period, but you gave me a lifetime of knowledge and for that, I thank you. I miss you more than I could type. I'm also grateful that Kimberly and Scottie are still talking to me and keep me in their lives and Kimberly still lets my dad and I see my little brother, Joseph. I know that you would be happy to hear that we are all getting along good now and you have nothing to worry about. Kimberly is taking very swell care of Joseph, your baby. He's 16 now. I wish that you could have been here to see that. Scottie helped Kimberly get him a car and Gary and Kimberly taught him to drive and pass his driving test. I miss when we were all living in the same house, eating those home-cooked meals that you always cooked. I know she knows that we are all down here thinking about her and missing her. Lord, tell her that we will see her again soon, when our time here, is up. To the moon and back mama... to the moon and back.

Anita Kay Shropshire-Towery
Mother, Granny, Aunt, Niece, Sister & daughter.
Fly high with Nanny Shropshire, Granny Nita...
xoxo