Hannah: Are there any, like, specific stories about Motha herself that you think are representative of her, or that you like that come to mind? Like what's, like, an important Motha story, or a funny Motha story? 

Maddisun: Um… 

Hannah: If you could tell everybody, right, about like, one story about Motha, what would you say? 

Maddisun: I feel like I have so many stories about Motha, and like, the lady she was, and like everything we did. I think one of our most memorable stories would be when we got pulled over…and that's like a whole story in and of itself, but it just showed like, Motha didn't get mad at us kids. Motha just did what she had to do in the situation... 

Motha lived right next to the rodeo grounds and she taught us all how to drive and we would just go around the rodeo grounds, you know. I feel like now it sounds crazy to be doing, but like, you know, small town…like… we were all driving before we were 16 and we were probably a little too young to be driving at this point. But, Motha would teach us how, and we wanted to go. And we typically always had Motha with us. 

But we wanted to go down to the rodeo grounds. And now we're messing around down there doing whatever, and us kids went to the rodeo grounds in Motha's car. Except Motha…Motha was at the house, and I don't remember, I was too young. I don't remember if she knew we were there or not. I don't know. 

We got called in and the cops came and we walked back to the house. And Motha was like, “it's okay, kids,” because we're all worried, you know, like cops when you're little are like, “oh no,” you know. 

Motha lived right next to the sheriff. So, he was talking to Motha, which I don't know what he said. I don't know if she got like, fined or in trouble. I have no idea. 

All I know is that we went out to the chicken coop because we didn't want to be inside at first, and Motha was out the front talking to––I don’t even remember who all was there––the sheriff, and I don't know if he was by himself or what. Like I said I was little. I don't remember the entire, like, Motha's details of it. 

I just remember, like, how Motha handled it. We went out in the chicken coop, got the eggs for the day, and then my brother, my oldest cousin, Tyler, was up there ––it was my older brother, Tori, me, and Josie––and my brother got us all freaking out. 

He was like, “I know what this means,” which he did not, but he thought did. And he had us convinced that they're gonna take Motha. She was going to jail forever. We're never see her again. We were going to starve and die in Motha's house because the cops were going to take her away. Our parents were not going to know what happened, and once the food ran out, that was all we had. 

So we're all, like, at this point, we were sitting in Motha's room on her bed and we're all crying like Jack's (my brother) telling us, and he's not, like, laughing, like he’s crying too, being like, “This is what's going to happen.” 

Motha came in and she's like, “What is going on?” And we were like, “They're going to take you forever! And we're gonna die here! Our parents aren't going to know that you're not here with us!”  And like she's like, “That's not happening! I'm not going anywhere. Like, we just can't…drive anymore.” Like, told us whatever, calmed us down, but she always was laughing and like, she didn't get mad, she didn't… I don't know. Like that's just how she was. 

Note: The transcript above has been condensed from its original audio recording to improve the flow and readability of the story.