A Day With Debbie

My dear friend, Jewells husband, John passed away yesterday after a long couragious battle with cancer...I was with Jewell all day yesterday as we sat by his bedside watching him struggle for each breath...he passed around 6 yesterday evening.

Cam was offered 3 jobs all in the same day, Extraco, AeroMart, and McLanes---he decided upon McLanes because of the benefits and pay---he starts Monday. Congrats and welcome home!

Haven't blogged in a few weeks---been so busy!
Kaitlyn was here for a week with me, she stayed some with Lindsay and the girls....we went bowling with the Saxon boys, Kaitlyn got the highest score, 88, then Jack came in second with a 77...we played putt-putt one night...everyone got a hole in one and Cam actually got 4!
Swam a lot with the girls....shopped for her trip next week to Cancun....

Kaitlyn got to come and stay a few days last week, she went to Lindsays and swam with the girls, spent the night and had pizza....On Friday, Mike & I took her to see "Cars", was so good! Her favorite character was "Mator"....We took her to Valley Mills for her baseball game, they lost but had fun...She will come back a few days this week and stay again.
For Fathers Day, she painted Mike 2 pretty pictures of coconut trees and a landscape of the ocean...priceless!

I miss my dad---I miss that he is not part of my childrens and grand-daughers lifes...I know he looks down from heaven and watches over all of us, I miss our little talks, him calling me "Deb"... I miss going to Kerrville and driving up and him sitting outside on the patio with Molly and drinking his tea...I miss Thanksgiving and him being so proud of his turkey and dressing...I miss Christmas and him saying "hohoho" to every person there as he passed the presents out...I miss him teasing the grandkids...being proud of his garden, his peach trees, sitting in his chair watching his tv ...
There are things I wished I had talked more to him about, the war, his heritage, his relationship with mama, how he felt when his children were born...his smile...
When we would leave, he was always on the back porch and would watch till we were out of site...
The memories of him coming home after a week trip in his Coke truck, mama always cooking a good dinner for him complete with a coconut pie...church on Sundays and usually Furrs afterwards for lunch, going to the Bakers or Renfros for tuna fish sandwiches after church on Sunday night, being so excited about an upcoming hunting trip and calling me and fibbing about a big deer he had got----going on trips in his RV---- Red Lobster----refusing to eat chinese food, calling it gook. Bringing our babies a chocolate bar cause he wanted too, taking Cam on fishing trips.
He loved his family very much...I am very proud of my dad, he had a hard life, had suffered in bad health for a long time. He endured a lot. But he never complained! I miss that smile!
Happy Fathers Day Daddy, I love you!

Little Wyatt was accidently shot on Friday night by his older brother...he died instantly, Wyatt was 6 yrs old, loved baseball and drawing pictures and coloring.
His stepmom, Amanda is one of Ambers best friends, she did all our hair for Ambers wedding...she had left the boys alone for just a little while as this happened,
A sweet funeral for a sweet little boy, as the minister said, they were needing a good shortstop in heaven.
As we watched his mommy and daddy say their last farewells, Wyatts daddy took his cowboy hat and Wyatts mommy took his baseball cap. They hugged each other in front of their little son laying so gently in his casket. At the gravesite Amber said a small butterfly flew over his casket and sat upon it as to say everything will be fine as "I'll Fly Away" was singing in the background.
Night is now upon us, peace to all the families involved as their son was laid to rest today.

Mama took Cynthia out to McDonalds on Tuesday night for dinner to celebrate her Birthday...someone reported to the Kerrville Police Dept that a green Ford Explorer was driving suspiciously...well, after eating, mama pulled out of the parking lot onto the main road and the police stopped her, had her get out of her car,made her take a eye test then breathalizer, it came back 0-0-0...wrong Ford Explorer perhaps?
Mama is 70 yrs old now, has been stopped 1 time in her life for not making a stop complete...I wonder if it is time that she not drive so much but how do you take that away from her when she loves to go and shop....

Sunday was Madalyns 2nd Dance Recital---both dances were just precious, Fluffy Powder Puff and Ellie the Elf....G-daddy, Ma, and Bubba were there as well as her Peepaw and MeeMaw.... afterwards we all came back to our house, grilled steaks with all the fixins and then had banana splits...

Cam got laid off from L3 on Friday morning, very unexpected---just company cutting back issues...he loved his job there, was making friends, going to PrestonCrest, enjoying the singles class there....so now, he is looking for another job, hoping something comes up soon...he has several good friends from college that have called him and are gonna forward his resume.
All his friends from work have called, they are all in shock too.
He is here in Waco this weekend, we are trying to cheer him up some, he has not slept much, been so upset---hopefully, a person he had sent a resume to here in Waco who wanted to give him a job when he accepted the job in Greenville will call him Monday morning and maybe interview him and get a job back here in Waco and come back home.