1st Time for everything....

Well, i've started out here at Blogspot to follow my kids and their amazing adoption journey. Now that things have seemed to settle into normalcy again, I thought about deleting my account and figured...nah...i'll just hang around a lil while and see who is interested in reading about me and what goes on in my daily life...



Here's some info about me to start off...

I'm a 53 yr old gal who loves living. I love living for the Lord. I love living to see my children and grandkids. I love living a fast paced life..i'm afraid if I slow down i'll miss out on too much. I love living close to my kids and grandkids..I love living in Alabama...can't say i'm too thrilled about living in Stevenson, but hey...I have a good home here, and a good church family, so I won't complain...just wished it didn't smell so bad when Meade's papermill is milling...



As a child, I grew up in Hammond, Ind...born and raised there. Don't remember too much about my younger years..and I don't know why. I don't remember too many of my school days..only remember 1 of my teachers, and that's only because he made a pass at me and it scared me half to death. Dad worked hard to provide for us kids, and Mom worked to help out. I remember being happy as a child, but life at home after I recieved the Holyghost was hard. Dad had quit church when I was about 3 yrs old...he had plans for me that didn't include church. He wasn't happy about me recieving the Holyghost and he let it show. I could go and tell you a lot of sad stories, but, Dad came to me the year before he died, and apologized for everything...so I won't dredge all that up...i'm thinking maybe that's why I can't remember a whole lot about those years...my brain won't let me go there...but I will say that when I was 16 yrs old I came to a "Y" in the road...I was so tired of all the problems at home that I felt defeated...like...I would never make it....I was at a crossroads...gonna go one way or the other....That is when the good Lord sent Tony back to me................


Tony and I met when we were kids...we both went to Harvey to church, and when he was 12 and I was 11, we became BF/GF for the 1st time...we liked each other on and off until he moved away...I missed him, but figured he was gone forever. But, lo and behold, 2 yrs later, I saw him again one night during Skyline's revival..I had gone with my 1st cousin Elaine Brazier, along with Uncle Elton and Papa...the last time I had seen him, he was wearing black rimmed glasses...that night, the glasses were gone, and oh my Lord, he was soooooo cute! I wanted to make sure he saw me, so I got up to go to the bathroom, and it worked...lol...he thought I was pretty sharp too..haha...ok...I can hear ya'll gagging...so i'll quit with the gushy stuff...after church was over, I was standing, talking to some girls, hoping and praying he would come speak to me, and he did...and all I could muster up to say was "Hi"....doh...he still imitates how I sounded that night, me with my Northern accent...he makes it sound something like.."Hi-eee"..ugh..there is no trace of that accent left..Ha...That began 4 years of an off again/on again relationship. I always came down there in August for Plevna's revival, he always came to see me, we always got back together, and he always broke up with me within 2 weeks of me going home. The night before I would leave to go home, he say, "remember, the brightest star in the sky is our star, look at it and think of me, i'll look at it and think of you"...HAHAHAHA...and I fell for it! Every year he'd tell me that, and every year for 2 weeks after I went home, i'd look at the stupid sky for that stupid star and think of him..then the call would come...and he'd break it off....oh well...didn't like being outside after dark getting bit by stupid ole skeeters any ole ways...and I found out that he had also promised that stupid star to every girl he liked! That went on for 3 summers, and that last time I said to myself.."not again"..he won't do that to me anymore...but the next year was when I was in such a bad shape that Mom was worried about me...she prayed for the Lord to send me some help, but didn't know what I needed...(which I later told her was peace).... Mom said she was worrying about me one night, and when she went to sleep, she said she had a dream, and in her dream she saw Tony's face....when she got up she told me about it ... but I let her know that I was done with Mr. Share a Star....he'd dropped me like a hot potato too many times, and I wouldn't or couldn't take that again...Well, for some reason, Granny and Papa decided to come South during the Spring. When Mom heard that, she came to me and asked me did I want to go...and i'm like..uh..why? No Mom..I don't want to go if it means I can't go back in August...I loved going to Plevna's revival, and summer in Alabama....And she reminded me of her dream, and told me that I should at least return some of the pictures that Tony had paid for...SET UP...come on Mom..we laughed at how "convenient" that was later...we had had some pictures made the year before that Tony had paid for and she thought it only right that I give them back to him...MOM...I see what you're doing!...but you know...I kinda got excited thinking about it...and seeing him again...Ok..i'll do it..i'll call and let him know i'm coming and that i'm gonna give him the pic's he's paid for....yada yada..blah blah....and when I got down there, he came and we went out, and he promised me that same stupid star, and I took it...BUT, this time, it went different...before I left coming home, he asked me to go steady with him...now that was serious stuff in my day...and after I got back home, I didn't get the "i'm gonna date others" phone call...but each call got more serious, until a few weeks later, he proposed...and 3 months later, we married... The Lord had sent me someone...delivered me from a bad situation....and made me a very happy girl!....but my life story doesn't end there......................