What's your name?

Despite that it shows this is Corbin's blog, this one is actually mine.  I'm Cathy or little mama depending on who you ask.  Now my daddy didn't give me this name, our neighbor did actually and can you guess why?  I tend to be a bit bossy and apparently I've had this trait all my life because I acquired this name before I was even 5.  So now if you knew my daddy well you most likely had a nickname.  So my mom is sivie-o or Nellie when he wanted to rattle her feathers.  He had a nephew he called Da.  His sister was Tiny.  He called one girl spot and until recently I never knew why.  I had friends and he never could remember their names so he called them Volkswagen mama and tattoo mama.   A lady at church attended a ladies dinner with my mom, they served lasagna a but apparently it had very little meat in it, so she asked my mom "where's the beef" like the old ad, so mom told dad about this when she got home, so from then on she was known as where's the beef lady.  He has a friend who he swears sounds like Kitty Wells, the country singer and one lady he swore looked just like Minnie Pearl.  My husband was Chris-co and so was a coworker before that.  Daddy called one worker just TP, which were his initials. One guy that hung around daddy for many years was Dean-o.  When I started keeping Chris's nephew Devin, daddy couldn't remember his name either so he called him Dog.    My nephew Robert became OBT and that stuck for years but it was mostly because that is the only letters he could remember from his name.  But my favorite nickname story has to be Corbin's  story.  When I found out I was pregnant daddy instantly through of the idea to name our baby if it was a boy...Herman Omer Tweedell.  Herman after his daddy, Omer after Chris's granddaddy, and well you know where Tweedell came from.  Now why would be choose this?  So his initials would be HOT.  Well I ended up having a boy but his name is not HOT, instead we named him Corbin Wilson Tweedell.  Even though I didn't name him HOT that is all my daddy ever called him.   Daddy couldn't wait til this summer he wanted to holler outside when Devin was over and say hey HOT and DOG y'all want a hot dog?
I love my nickname and even though daddy didn't give it to me, I loved when he called me that.   I tried to persuade him to buy me a Mother's Day gift one year because he calls me little mama all the time but it didn't work. And even though daddy was good at giving names he was just plain ol Harold to everyone.  Well he was my daddy pop but everyone else including his grandson just called him Harold.  Grandpa was for old people and daddy never acted old.