September 23, 2014

Happy Fall Y'all!!!  :)

What a beautiful morning!  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and its a crisp 66 degrees in beautiful Lilburn!!

Today, I am going to tell you a little about myself.  :)

My mother and I lived with my grandparents until I was about 4 years old.  I have many many wonderful memories of my Granddaddy, Grannie, and all my aunts and uncles!  (There were 8 children in that family!)  I remember living in a 2 story house, that housed a little store in the bottom that my grandfather ran.  I remember me and my aunt going in and him giving us ice cream!  Double scoops!  The store later changed to a pool hall.  Yes, I said a pool hall.  :)
This is where I heard all the newest and best songs that were coming out on the radio!  My uncle was in charge of getting the music for the juke box!!  What memories!!

I later moved with my Mother and her new husband to Youngstown, FL.  I lived next to my new cousins, Mark and Ricky.  I LOVED being with them and  their family.  It too was a large family.  Lots of wonderful memories of being on their farm.  Cows, chickens, sheep, pecan trees..it was so much fun roaming the huge fields with my cousins...we three became very very close!!

I attended Youngstown Elementary School....guess who my first grade teacher was?  My Aunt!!  I didn't get special treatment tho.  LOL..she was an awesome teacher.  She also taught me in 3rd grade. 

I will skip all the years up until I was 17 years old.  I married my first husband when I was 17.  Yes, very young, and I would not recommend it to anyone, but, I was blessed in many ways because of it.  There are hidden blessings in our lives, that we don't see until maybe years later, and sometimes we may not see them at all.  

I started having children right away, I have 3 lovely, intelligent, successful children.  I am so proud of all of them.  They are blessings, for sure!!

My first marriage ended after many years, and I moved to Atlanta, Ga.  I became involved with my now husband, Scott.  We got married after I had lived here for 4 years.  My life began to take a whole new path.  Some good, some not so good.  But, God can take bad things and make them into good.   And into good He did!  My husband accepted the Lord on the last day of 2013!  Thank you Jesus!  

As time goes on, I will be adding a little snippet from time to time, to show how there are so many hidden blessings in our lives...we have to have our eyes open, and our hearts in tune with God, and we can see so many!!!

I want to wish all of you a wonderful, hope filled day!  Until we meet again, God bless us all!