My mother gave me the foundation.

I'm blessed with my mother still living. She still likes to cook, too.

I also like to bake cakes for my pastor, Roosevelt Carter I.

I cook Sunday dinner every week. Friends and family are always dropping by.

Dixie Carter was a goddess. The kind of wife and mother that every mother hopes their daughter will become and the kind of friend that is absolutely irreplaceable. She loved fiercely and was adored in return.

I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever.