My Nina is Better than Yours!

Cheech sang this song in Cheech & Chong's Next Movie. Do you remember it?

Mexican Americans don't like to just get into gang fights,
they like flowers and music and white girls named Debbie too.

Mexican Americans are named Chata and Chella and Chemma
and have a son-in-law named Jeff.

Mexican Americans don't like to get up early in the morning
but they have to so they do it real slow.

Mexican Americans love education so they go to night school
and take spanish and get a B.

Mexican Americans love their Nana's and their Nono's and their
Nina's and their Nino's........ Nano Nano Nina Nono!

My brother and sister and I have this running joke about our godparents. I got the good ones. They got the shaft. I guess being the first born, my mom had the pick of the litter, so she chose her big sister. My nina has always been an awesome godmother, in the form of homemade strawberry shortcakes for my birthday parties, gifts (christmas, birthdays and just cuz), my wedding cake, toys for my chil'rens, camp money for the chil'rens, cards, phone calls and love. Her love didn't end after childhood and adolescence, when most godparents retire their godparent responsibilities. Even my nino, who after all these years pretends to be mad at me if I don't give him a kiss on the cheek in greeting.

My nina came down to celebrate my belated birthday this weekend but the snow held her back. I was sad. Sadder still that she had made me a homemade strawberry shortcake. That didn't stop her from coming the next day, my beautiful and delicious strawberry shortcake still intact. She also bought me my L.A.M.B perfume! The bottle is big enough to carry me through middle age and beyond. Yesss.