Well,where do I start? Here goes: I was born the 3rd daughter of 8 children to a coal miner and wife.I have 5 sisters and 2 brothers.I love them all dearly,We are all truly blessed to come from a large family and to have known our grandparents and great grandparents.Our family picnics are like a church social,I have lost count of just how many there are.OK more about me,I don't rememember a whole lot about my early childhood but I have heard it was rough,outside plumbing,carrying water for chores etc.At the age of two I contacted polio,I was isolated in a hospital for months behind glass no one could have contact with me.Even though I don't remember it I know it had to be hard on my mom and dad.At the age of (5 )I remember moving closer to town where there was plumbing,schools with more than 1 room and a giant movie screen right behind our house.We could see the screen but we couldn't hear it.At the age of 6 we moved even closer to the town in which I still live.Here I attended Justice grade school.My childhood was normal to me even though I was in the hospital just about every summer having surgeries.We played hide and seek,tin can alley etc. We were happy kids. I received my strenght from my mom.She is the one I remember always being there for me.She made all our clothes,and though we didn't have a lot we didn't really know it.This didn't cause me to love my Dad any less,
He was just so busy trying to provide for 8 kids.
The best gift she gave me was to make all 8 of us go to church every time the doors were open.My teen age years were a little harder.I attended Logan Central Junior High.We were not allowed to date,go to parties,wear slacks,shorts and all the things other teenagers got to do.After graduation from Logan Senior High. I got a job as a switchboard operator and desk clerk at Aracoma Hotel and left home to stay with an older sister who was married.I met my husband while I was working as a switchboard operator at the hotel.In he walked,He was a city policeman,To this day I don't know if it was the uniform or him LOL.
but after 34 years we are still together.By no means has it been a perfect marriage.We have been married 3 times to each other.CRAZY
I am sure he would not care for me to say it was because of alcohol.
I would not advise any one to stay in a marrige like this but in my case my prayers have been answered.Even though we are battling a very serious illness (end stage liver disease)together.We have had 3 wonderful years to get to know each other.(I am still trusting God for a miracle)
We have a beautiful daughter who is a school teacher but quit when she gave us our first grandson.I always desired to have a boy. I call him my Sunshine,I rocked for hours singing you are my sunshine,It seemed to soothe him so now that's what I call him..and now I am blessed with a second gradson I call him My Peanut he is little and petite and so precious to me, like my daughter,she only weighed 4lbs 8oz.My daughter,son-in-law and gradsons are the 4 people in my life other than God that keeps me hanging on.
Update on my Husband: 03/24/2004
It has now been 3 yrs. since he was on hospice.He is still fighting and growing daily in his faith. |
