The Me in We......

• I realize that I have not told you a lot of things
• about me as my mind is still caught in the grief
• so here is a bit of this and that's
• I was raised on a farm - with one brother
• my father was a homesteader and born
• on his father's homestead in 1910 ( grandpa came from Sweden)
• mother was also a homesteader's daughter(grandpa came from Scotland)
• they lived about 3 miles a part -
• brother has the original homestead now -just over 100 years old
• the farm that is ..not brother Bill-LOL
• we did not have running water- unless we ran and got it
• or indoor plumbing of any kind
• the old out house is still standing
• and father and mother build a modern house in 1970
• our heat was wood cut from the homestead trees
• dried for a year and then sawed into logs for the heater
• and split for the kitchen cook stove
• coming to town was quite an experience for me
• to have bath tubs and taps and a stove
• that turned on with buttons
• I was raised to be a wife........
• and married at what would be considered now
• as young but was normal in my life.
• I was 18 and papa hubby was 27 -
• he was never considered too old for me--LOL
• that was how life was in the fifties and sixties
• we had 2 daughters- Bonita and Tammy
• I worked part time but only jobs that I was able
• to do when papa hubby was home so our
• kids were not baby sat often........
• I took an rehabilitation practitioner course
• and worked for 15 years at a group home
• this was during a time when hubby was injured
• with his back and had 6 back fusions
• sadly none of them helped and he was
• disabled the last 12 years but still very independent
• we spent most of our time together--
• when one or the other was not working
• we did not ever become rich in money
• but we were rich in love........
• we both gave our hearts to the Lord in 1987
• and began our walk with the our Shepherd..
• I, from watching Billy Graham and papa hubby
• at the little pentecostal church I made him go too-
• that is a funny story but I was scared to go
• as I had heard so many strange stories
• and when we got there- we discovered a lot of
• normal folks went there too-LOL
• we were so blessed by God in that church
• but sadly it broke down when our pastor retired
• and many members left -
• because we took our grand kids to church and
• we needed one with a Sunday School.. so
• we found a new church for them- Papa hubby
• took grand kids to church for 18 years- and
• I am so glad we/he did........we/I attend a church of the
• Nazarene now - at papa hubby's memorial service
• our dear pentecostal pastor was there for us too
• you will get to notice other things about me as
• I write here- I am more of an introvert and
• I will be 61 in May and I don't feel a day over 60 (grin)
• I clean our church to help my income now that hubby is gone--
• I love the Lord and I am so thankful for what He has done for me
• I hang on to my hope--as -- I miss my papa hubby
• whose name was David Allan- and I know that he
• is indeed in peace with no pain or sickness or disabilities
• huggles from Meme
• THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD!!!!!