Picture It. Sicily. 1924....

I know this doesn't have anything to do with baby, but today a very important person died. It was Estelle Getty, the woman who played Sophia on the Golden Girls.

Now, I know you have no idea who the Golden Girls are yet, baby - but you will!!

You see, when your mommy was a little girl, she used to spend weeks at a time at Maw Maw Pearl (your Mamere) and Paw Paw Earl's house. It was always so much fun. We would get soft serve ice cream from Frostop or box ice cream from K&B, and Maw Maw would make me a "palette" to sleep on the floor every night (which was basically a big floppy mattress). And once a week, we would watch the Golden Girls (this is when they were brand new episodes - before the reruns!). It was a ritual for us.

Then when I got older, your Mammy and I would watch the Golden Girls reruns at night on Lifetime, and THAT became a ritual too. That was kind of our "mother-daughter time," and even now when I go to Louisiana to visit your Mammy, we stay up late and watch the Golden Girls. Anyone who knows me, knows that I L-O-V-E the Golden Girls...so I have already gotten two texts and three emails today to tell me of the sad news of Sophia (Estelle Getty), the funniest of the four characters. She died at 84 of early dementia.


Us Levet children take our sitcoms very seriously...you should've seen when John Ritter, the beloved actor who played Jack of Three's Company died. It was as if a family member passed away!


Love, Mom