My cousin Kymmy and I look like we were kidnapped from Whoville.
I am staring at the camera like:
really, REALLY… y’all gonna leave my hair like this and TAKE A PICTURE?
And Kymmy has the nerve to grin. C’mon cousin…you have a comb stuck on the top of your head and I think Mama put a binder clip in mine.
And wait….had we been skiing??? I look like I had on goggles all day and have white rings around my eyes.
Where were our parents??!!?? ROFL
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!
My previous post (https://builtfordtough.org/wow-wow/ ) has ignited some wonderful responses on my Facebook Page (Regan Ford). So much so that my Mom and the author of the original email are going to meet. And…get this, she has found the program with my Mom’s autograph. I kept the author’s name from the original post, but she has given me permission to let you all know.
This is part of the original email thread that I previously posted:
– Regan – Forgive my intrusion, but I saw your name on the Capitol Hill list serve. By any chance is your mother’s name Antoinette? If so, I still remember your name from 1975! –
I replied:
– Yes, Antoinette is my Mom. Oh Em Gee. How do we know each other? –
She replied:
– Regan – we don’t know each other, but your mother was an absolutely awesome speaker at a forum I attended in Washington. Coming from Michigan, she was the first truly professional woman I had ever seen. I know it sounds corny now, but I went up and got her autograph. I still have it. Just tell her I said “thank you”. I have had an awesome career in Washington, at least in part thanks to her. –
I replied:
– WOW!!! –
The person who sent this email and who was inspired by Mom is Lawranne Stewart.
Lawranne Stewart is the retired Chief Counsel for the House Financial Services Committee. She is currently on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) serving as Interim Senior Counsel for Chairman Timothy Massad. She previously served as Chief Counsel to the Financial Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, spending a total of 13 years on committee staff, where she had major roles in federal housing policy, securities law, derivatives, TARP and the Dodd-Frank Act. Prior to that, Ms. Stewart worked at the Department of Treasury as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance and as Associate Director of government securities regulation in the Bureau of Public Debt. She began her service in the Legal Division of the Federal Reserve Board after graduating from NYU Law School.
Yesterday I received the following email:
Regan – Forgive my intrusion, but I saw your name on the Capitol Hill list serve. By any chance is your mother’s name Antoinette? If so, I still remember your name from 1975!
I replied:
Yes, Antoinette is my Mom. Oh Em Gee. How do we know each other?
She replied:
Regan – we don’t know each other, but your mother was an absolutely awesome speaker at a forum I attended in Washington. Coming from Michigan, she was the first truly professional woman I had ever seen. I know it sounds corny now, but I went up and got her autograph. I still have it. Just tell her I said “thank you”. I have had an awesome career in Washington, at least in part thanks to her.
I replied:
WOW!!!
So, of course, I tell my Mom this. She is tickled and humbled at the same time.
MOM: 1975!!! Baby, what was I doing in 1975?
ME: I don’t know…I was 6.
MOM: (thinking…hard) Hmm….I wasn’t a Fellow any longer. Was that when we lived in Cambridge?
ME: I don’t know…I was 6.
MOM: Where you at Congressional, or Burgundy Farms?
ME: I don’t know…I was 6.
MOM: (thinking…harder) 1975. 1975. Hmm…..what was I doing? Hmpf…I’ve done too much…let me look at my C.V.
ME: (giggling)
MOM: By the way…I am getting an award this Sunday as the Women of the something or other…you have to go with me
ME: Ok…cool.
MOM: This is the 3rd great thing I’ve received this morning and it isn’t even 10am.
ME: That’s kind of cool.
MOM: (whispering) Regan…what does this mean? Is the rapture coming??
ME: I’M GOING TO WORK!!!
