I won't dwell on the next 37 yrs too much...so many things happened it would take forever to journal it here...but some of the highlights of those years were when Tony FINALLY recieved the Holyghost...when Michael was FINALLY born, after 28 hours of agonizing pain, and when Erica, our FINAL child was born less than a year later... then a few years down the road, the Lord healed me of Rheumatoid Arthritis...something I will devote a whole blog to later on...other highlights include our kids recieving the Holyghost, both of them when they were 10...and then Erica got married, altho I can't hardly say that was a highlight...nothing against Todd, it doesn't matter who, just that she got married. Period. At 15. What was Tony thinking? Oh yeah...he wasn't. He was praying his head off wondering if it was ok. And I remember when he told me that the Lord let him know it was ok...I cried and cried. But she did, and they are still happily married, I think it's been 19 yrs now...WOW...but we got Kristen out of the deal, so Tony forgave Todd for taking her away. LOL.....that left me Michael...aka Slick...and I will probably continue to call him Slick..he's been that to me for nearly 30 yrs...can't help it that he went all preacher on us...he's still Slick to me...I mean...I know what people mean,....like..Slick is kinda a "sneaky" type name and prolly not the best for a preacher...but..he's still Slick to me. And i'm still gonna call him that...ya'll just gonna have to deal wid it...anyways, back to my story..haha...Slick was still at home, and we became very close...he was all I had left in the nest...he would come home from being out with his friends, or a date, and I was always awake til he got home...he might not have thought I was, but I was...that's why he'd get grounded so much, he was always coming in late...but he'd tell me what all had happened, who was liking who..who wasn't liking who...and then this little pip-squeak of a girl came along and took him away....I cried again for months...let me tell you...that empty-nest syndrome is REAL...one day you have your child...and all his drama...and his friends coming over and all their drama...then the next day...NOTHING....no son, no friends, no drama, NOTHING...an empty house, no "Mom, where's my..." just silence...no football games on TV, no stomping across the floor upstairs..something that would get him in trouble when his daddy was trying to sleep...just silence...silence so loud it echoed...I would just go to his room and sit in it and cry...and wouldn't wash the clothes that he had left there...you would have thought he'd died the way I grieved...I felt like I had lost all purpose...and then, a few MONTHS later, it was like all of a sudden, I see Tony, sitting in the chair with this invisible sign over his head that read..."I'm still here"....and I realize what I have been doing...I guess I thought that he didn't need me like the kids did...but I was wrong...and from then on, I started looking on the good things...I had raised my children, they had left home with the Holyghost, and both had found good, loving spouses. My job was done. Now it was time for me and Tony. Our time. And we have been having a ball ever since...we love going to Florida...we love going to the campground..we have our business...Todd runs our shop in Scottsboro, and Slick bought our other store in Fort Oglethorpe, GA..and it's going great...we absolutely adore our grandkids, Kristen, Carter, Caden and Resiana...and can't wait until our new one comes, around the middle of August we're told...and we'll be headed to Hawaii...Our anniversary is Aug 3rd..so maybe we'll make it an anniversary celebration out of the trip as well..
Well, so much for the highlights...without a doubt there are a lot more that I could mention...but i'll save some of those for future blogs...i'm trying to get up-to-date with my lifestory so my blogs will be current day-to-day events...just thought i'd share a little life info about myself to ya'll that don't know me that well...hope you come back and see me!
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
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......................
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......................
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