Just Checking In

Hey guys I haven't posted in over a week, My goodness the world is going to come to an because Mama didn't post. I will check back in when I have more time to tell you how everything is going and how I am making it work. The Comonique Files will continue as well as Ask Mama which got off to a rocky start. My new album project is still moving constantly listening to new music as it comes to me from Monyea and Miko-d so I am excited about that.
I am officially in the process of making my consignment store over into a wifi cafe and m offices for the local website I maintain and social media services.
I just got a couple potential long term clients in terms of that as well. So I think I may need to hire someone who is as shar as me and who is not my fifteen year old daughter. That in itself will be a challenge.
I'll be back later on so much to do so little time today.

Til Next Time,

Mamma (Y've)

SADE Returns To Mesmerize .. ..Time To Step Up!

If you have been living under a rock you may not know that music just got better. I was driving to get the kids and heard this song that I "FELT".
Now I don't know about you but damn it takes a lot to make me a feel a song these days but it was INSTANT. I heard the voice the groove and I was like that is "Sade". I was like banging all on my steering wheel screaming "Yes, yes OMG real music, yes aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes!"
Sade came out the year I was freshman in high school. I fell in love for the first time with a knot head boy and got my heart broken just as quickly. I remember playing "Is It A Crime" over and over and over. Then it was learning that her band was Sweetback, then it was seeing Sade fall in love in music videos with her hair pulled back showing her full forehead and red lips.
I felt her as she sang about the "Smooth Operator".
I learned to croon like her. Some of my riffs and tones are like hers. I learned how to put "FEELING" into my voice as I sang because of her.
I am not saying that there are not artists that do not mesmerize but I know for sure that this woman is back and the new kids on the block.........put your best face forward cause if you can't make em feel it walk it live in the song the lyrics and music, why do it?
Ya'll it's time to step up the game.

Enjoy



Til Next Time,

Mamma (Y've)

Oh Pippeeeeeeee Where Arreee Yooooouuuuu?

This is a very quick post. I told you Imani bought a hamster (mouse) for herself for Christmas. Not long ago Pippi escaped! My thought was she has to be dead. She is in a closet, stuck or maybe ran outside when the door was open, something must have happened.
Poor Pippi just wanted to be free.
When Imani told me about it I was shocked because I thought when she said "Mother, I lost Pippi" that the poor hamster (mouse) died. I saw flashes of us wearing black and flushing her down the toilet after saying the Lord's prayer. But nooo, Imani forgot to close her cage after cleaning it and the hamster (mouse) got away.
Yesterday Imani proudly announced that Pippi is NOT DEAD. She saw her running from the closet downstairs where we store holiday and seasonal items!
Let me just say this...don't let ME find her.......
Dang hamster (mouse)!

Til Next Time,

Mamma (Y've)

The Comonique Files Session Two

Hey Cuz,
Someone said to me quite recently "You really love yourself alot, everywhere I go there are tons of pictures of you all over the place. I see you have yourself on your phone I see you have yourself all on your blog and Facebook, and on dvds and just everywhere. Boy you sure are one stuck up broad!"
I didn't want to stop him I wanted him to say what he had to say and I did nothing to correct him. If he thinks and believes that I am stuck up then hey he should continue to think and believe that. I most certainly will not stop him.
It took me a very long time to get to this point where I could post photos of myself anywhere. That's why I post pictures everywhere. Not because I believe that I am so fabulous but because I was raised to believe that I was NOT.
 Let me explain that to you if I can.
Way before you were even thought of and joined the family as a tiny infant, I can recall on more occasions than I would like to remember, where I was compared to my older sister. I was not light enough, my hair was not straight enough. I could not pass, I was not white looking enough. I was ugly, fat, dark, black spot, dot, purple, nappy headed...you get the picture.
I grew up believing that the little girl that was in the mirror was a nobody because our family had convinced this young girl that she was ugly that I was never going to amount to anything because I was not pretty enough. I was convinced by my mother that I would never get a man because I did not have the body my older sister had. It was drilled in my head so much so that I refused to look in mirrors, or pose for pictures. I began to hold my head down and hide behind my large framed glasses because this duck was ugly and who in the world wants to be friends with the ugly duckling? Even I did not want to be friends with me.
In my silent, quiet world I was slowly tormented by my angry mother who chose to tell me, "You will never be nothing but a poor old, ugly, fat, black woman on welfare with a whole bunch of kids just like me. Now your sister, she is going places she is pretty enough. She will find someone to take care of her. She is light enough she can pass. You.,?..... you will never be that lucky"
So as I grew up I lived out what my mother and others in our family told me I was. I had been put in another box. I had been told that I would never get out. I have spent my entire life trying to get out of that box I was put in by the person that I should have been able to turn to to give me the confidence I needed to face the world.
Now here I am a grown woman who by my dear dear friend encouraged me to blog, to write, to get raw, tell the truth and never hide. Notice in the beginning how I never showed photos of me. Then slowly I showed myself, then I gave myself a name.
I can also remember when we put out the first album I literally REFUSED to take photos. Mose had to talk me into over and again. Very sad but true. I am STILL dealing with that little girl, she is still there even though I will see 40 this year I battle with that child daily. 
So I post pictures to see myself and not be afraid of me. I post pictures of me online so that I can know that I am pretty enough, or that there is no monster there only me. Not because I think I am just so beautiful, but because I am afraid, that I will get back in the box of what someone told me years ago and I will live out my life based on a lie.
I tell you this so you will know one thing. What was given to me in huge doses of painful words came from someone who was hurting so deeply that they began to inflict  that pain on to others that loved them. She knew no better and so for that I can forgive her. I hope she is at peace my dear mother who knew nothing much more than the world in which she lived. She remained in a box someone put her in at a very young age.
My pictures of me all over the world wide web and my cell phone and my home are representative of me kicking and screaming and pushing to get out and stay of the box and I can see myself and witness the change as it happens.
This is only the surface...just a taste. I will return with more truth.

Til next time as I look at myself once again,

Mamma (Y've)

Me My Locks and I

Well I thought it was about time to start talking about my locks again. First off I want to do a disclaimer. I do not have the real Sisterlocks that people are raving about lately. I could not find a Sisterlocks consultant in the state I live in so I did the next best thing. I started my locks with my permed hair with tiny micro braids and left my hair alone other than shampoo and oil when necessary.
Now I am entering year five of having my locks and cannot say enough about how happy I am to have made the decision to get on "Lock Down."
This photo here is of me and KJ just hanging out in my office where I broke the store down and boxed up everything so I only have room enough for my desk and my computers and phones.

I just wanted to show the length and how cute they are now that they have a nice bit of length to them.
I think tomorrow I will have it curled so that I can wear it down and wear a touch of make up. MAYBE. In the mean time here is another pic as well. Just me, Lili and KJ. Lili is on lock down as well and locks are bouncing and behaving just like I knew that they would.

She looks so cute even with her little pony tails and glasses. She loves to have her hair down so that she can dance all around the living room so they can shake after a nice washing and condition. It's good to see my little girl so proud of her own beauty and being able to love who she is the way that she is the way that God made her.
That is the best thing that I could give her that she will never have to deal with like I did as a child. Nothing could be more important to me than my children's self esteem. I am sure that other mothers and fathers could understand.
She and I both are due for a tightening and we will get them before the end of the month. Maybe before the end of the school year we will take some mommy daughter pictures to show how lovely and beautiful we are.
Now you must admit that this a wonderful picture the three of us together hanging out looking including me almost clueless.
What a pretty cool way to spend the day together just smiling and eating rice krispy treats and watching sponge bob. I think I need to do this more often so that we can remember these days when they are all grown up.
That's it for now for my Me My Locks and I segment.

Til Next Time

Mamma (Y've)

I Love Chocolate Everything About It!

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of LG Chocolate Touch. All opinions are 100% mine.

I am so busy. I am always on the run doing one thing or another and moving about online all in the process. What that means is that I am always using my cell phone in one way form or another. I found out about the LG Chocolate Touch just like we all did and that was with the cute commercial with Ciara. I thought I would go online to the LG Chocolate Touch website and find out more about it myself and see what I could dream up if I could own a phone like that myself.
My goodness I started thinking of all the things I wouldn't have to carry if I would just break down and get this new phone! My mp3 player would be gone, I could use the Dolby Mobile Technology to listen to my favorite tunes connected to my car or to my ears to work out with. I see here that this phone even has a Rhythmical Beat that vibrates the handset to beat of the music. I could get rid of carrying my laptop as well cause this LG Chocolate Touch phone has social media applications I can use with just a touch! I could really use that as well since I am always tweeting or using my Facebook account or blogging. Now this is getting sweet as chocolate.
One thing that I know is that I love any phone that has the option of taking video or pictures of any kind and this one has a 3.2 megapixel camera and recorder along with a photo editor which is really cool. This is great that this phone has all the mobile features I am looking for in a phone right now. With everything that I am doing right now with my business this phone is perfect for what I need to move forward in both work and play. With Mobile Media – top-notch text, picture, video, and voice messaging, including Visual Voice mail I would not need any other mobile device how cool would that be?
In my search to find a phone that I can truly love this phone is top on the list that would be able to do all of the things that I would need and want in a phone.
Chocolate.....hey you gotta love it and everything about it besides!

Til Next Time

Mamma (Y've)