Mommies Here!

Here is the new site. I’ve been working on this off and on for several months. This switch was far more complicated than I ever thought and if I had known how difficult this would be, I never would have moved from blogger. Needless to say, the switch not have happened without Calli’s help and handholding. Take a look around and let me know what you think. While I was transferring some of the posts and comments, I lost a few comments along the way. I’m working on it.

Anyhoo, along with the switch to a new site comes a switch to a new pen name, Eva. I am changing my pen name to my grandmother’s name.

Eva was an elegant simple woman born in the Caribbean in 1919. During her lifetime she gave birth to 11 children who in turn gave birth to 25 children who in turn gave birth to 55 and so on and so forth. As you can see, I come from a large fertile family. She was an elegant, simple woman with a nurturing spirit and inner calm. She left this earth in 1999.

I would love to bottle my grandma’s mojo or, at least, bring her closer to me in my journey. So from now on just call me, Eva.

When I was seven years old, my mother and I spent the entire summer with my grandparents, back home, in the Caribbean. The summer was filled with countless aunts, uncles, cousins, sun, palm trees, and glorious food. Every activity and everyone revolved around my grandmother, the matriarch. What I remember most about my grandmother was her hands: ripened, sun-kissed, gentle, adept and warm. Her touch was soothing, confident, maternal.

I come from a big family. Grandma had 10 children, who each had about 2.5 children who each had 1.5 children.

That summer Grandma and I talked about many things, but what she talked about the most was the value of motherhood. “You are going to love being a mother one day,” she said over and over again.