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News Queen for the Month,Mistress of Melody Jami hosted our January 2007 Mountain retreat outing. Six of us had a wonderful retreat weekend, crocheting, knitting, relaxing in the beautiful NC mountains. Red Hat hugs to Mistress Jami! 
We have signed up to be "Queen for the Month" so be watching the calender on this page, your email and snail mail for details for upcoming events.
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Members List:
Links Section
Founding Queen Mother:
Teresa Smith
Members:
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Countess of Hearts:
Connie Allen
Mistress of Melody:
Jami Bumgarner
Queen of the Road:
Tammy Greene
Heroine of Hotflashes:
Carol Henry
Mistress of Mercy:
Alison Kernicky
Mistress of M&M's:
Betsy McPherson
Queen Hummer:
Ann Merritt
Countess of Crazy:
Caroline Nickle
Heiress of Hugs:
Natalie Pendley
Diva of Wisdom:
Donna Pierce
Lady Latte:
Jill Putnam
Babe of Boldness:
Clara Spangler
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Welcome to the official site of the Sassy Southern Sisters, a chapter of the Red Hat Society. We became official at the end of August 2004. We greet life with laughter, silliness and sassiness while celebrating the age we are. The Red Hat Society is helping us discover the child within each of us and how to break out of our "box". We've come to a place where there is fun after fifty (and before!)for women of all walks of life! Our main goal is to have fun.
The Red Hat Society began as a result of a few women deciding to greet middle age with verve, humor and elan. We believe silliness is the comedy relief of life and since we are all in it together, we may as well join red-gloved hands and go for the gusto together. Underneath the frivolity we share a bond of affection, forged by common life experiences and a genuine enthusiasm for where life takes us next. We believe aging should be something anticipated with excitement, not something to dread.--Red Hat Society
WARNING
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain And pick flowers in other people's gardens and learn to spit....
But maybe I ought to practice a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised when suddenly I am old and start to wear purple."
~Jenny Joseph
Good Advice
They say that once you're old enough to know all the answers, nobody asks you the questions anymore.
But TV journalist Dan Rather once asked a 106-year-old man to disclose his secret of long life. The old man rocked back and forth in his chair before answering. Finally he replied, "Keep breathing." ~Barbara Johnson
Watch out! God is making you authentic. Real. Rubbing off your fake fur. Changing your outlook. Giving you new desires. Making you Marvelous. Fulfilling what you were created for. He is making you the "Queen of Quite a Lot," enlightening you for kingdom work. Open your arms wide to God's imaginative work in you. Be brave. Then braver still. Never resist His insistence of perfection.~Barbara Johnson
Someone once said that life is made up of the tender teens, the teachable twenties, the tireless thirties, the fiery forties, the fretful fifties, the serious sixties, the sacred seventies, the aching eighties....shortening breath, death, sod, God. That is our journey, and a happy ending awaits us after we make our way through all the tough stuff. ~Barbara Johnson
Now I lay me Down to sleep I pray the Lord My shape to keep.
Please no wrinkles, Please no bags And please lift my butt Before it sags.
Please no age spots, Please no gray And as for my belly, Please take it away.
Please keep me healthy, Please keep me young, And thank you Dear Lord For all that you've done.
"He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy." Job 8:21
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"Life is short, Eat dessert first!"~Ruby Redhat
by Maya Angelou
When I was in my younger days,
I weighed a few pounds less,
I needn't hold my tummy in
to wear a belted dress.
But now that I am older,
I've set my body free;
There's the comfort of elastic
Where once my waist would be.
Inventor of those high-heeled shoes
My feet have not forgiven;
I have to wear a nine now,
But used to wear a seven.
And how about those pantyhose-
They're sized by weight, you see,
So how come when I put them on
The crotch is at my knee?
I need to wear these glasses
As the print's been getting smaller;
And it wasn't very long ago
I know that I was taller.
Though my hair has turned to gray
and my skin no longer fits,
On the inside, I'm the same old me,
It's the outside's changed a bit.
"Life is a coin. You can spend it anyway you wish, but you can only spend it once." ~Lillian Dickson~
A mother gives advice to her young newlywed daughter, "Don't forget your girlfriends. You will need them especially as you grow older. Remember to go places with them now and then, and do things with them. You will need other women." The young daughter thought this was a funny piece of advice. I'm now a married woman, a grownup, not a young girl who needs girlfriends. Surely my husband and my family we will start will be all I need to make my life worthwhile. But she listened to her mother's advice and kept in contact with her girlfriends and made new ones through the years. After fifty years of living, here is what she learned:
Time passes.
Life happens.
Distance separates.
Children grow up
Love waxes and wanes.
Hearts break.
Careers end.
Jobs come and go.
Parents die.
Colleagues forget favors.
Some men don't call when they say they will.
But girlfriends are there, no matter how much time and how many miles are between you. A girlfriend is never farther away than needing her can reach.
When you have to walk that lonesome valley, and you have to walk it for yourself, your girlfriends will be on the valley's rim, cheering you on, praying for you, pulling for you, intervening on your behalf, and waiting with open arms at the valley's end. Sometimes, they will even break the rules and walk beside you. Or come in and carry you out.
When we began this adventure called womanhood we had no idea of the incredible joys and sorrows that lay ahead. Nor did we know how much we would need each other. Every day, we need each other still.~Author unknown~
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand - strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, "WOO HOO!!! What a Ride!"
1.If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.
2.Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
3.The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.
4.Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite and you'll eat less.
5.A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Isn't that handy?
6.If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you?
7.If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.
8.If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other?
9.Money talks. Chocolate sings.
10.Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger!
11.Q: Why is there no such organization as Chocoholics Anonymous? A: Because no one wants to quit!
12.If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated.
13.Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done today.
The Chocoholics 12-step program :
NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!!
