the way my family became the way it is now, as in all families, is a long story. for some reason, mine seems to take a little longer to tell. here’s my dad’s side of my family at thanksgiving 2007. everyone was home and it was a great time. we enjoy each other a lot.
so, i decided i’d sit down and write out my fam history when a friend at work asked me to go thru it yesterday. here goes…
my mom and dad were high school sweethearts married (under my grandfather’s radar!) when they were 18. i was born shortly thereafter.
5 years later daddy was a local rock star and found sherrie. my parents divorced and jason was born…shortly thereafter.
my mom decided that she didn’t want anyone taking care of me who didn’t have a good relationship with her so she and sherrie wrote their hearts out in several letters and ending up being very very close. because of their relationship my mom would keep my brother and sister-sherrie’s two children. this is jason, of webmaster fame…
and katie…
my mom was remarried to david price (car dealer…the reason i have an unquenchable desire to always buy a new car) when daddy and sherrie divorced. she actually came to stay with us when she left and brought jason and katie. less than a year later sherrie became very sick. she was hospitalized, diagnosed with viral pneumonia. the day she went in they called my mom and she rushed to her. they had a conversation in sign language because sherrie was hooked up to a bunch of tubes. later that night her lung collapsed, and she fell unconscious. she never regained consciousness. three weeks later she died. she was 25 years old. my stepfather was a pall bearer.
a week later my dad married judy and adam was born…shortly thereafter…see a trend?? ha. adam recently had his first child, claire…
i was a junior in high school when my brother jonathan was born and judy allowed me to be in the room. i heard his first raspy little cry. he just got back from iraq a week ago…
daddy and judy divorced not long after jonathan was born and daddy stayed single for a while. he married tracey when i was in college and they moved into a house that had a guest house in the backyard where they let me live while i was going to school at huntingdon and aum. i met frank during this time in the college group at frazer. this was a really good time for me because i had all my siblings in my front yard. it was the first time i had lived that close to all of them and the last since they’re all adults now. i was 19 years old when my LAST sibling was born (i feel pretty safe in saying he’s the last at this point). daniel is now 20 himself. that’s him in the bottom right corner.
a few years later daddy and tracey divorced. daddy moved with jason and katie to birmingham and found someone up there to be married to briefly before coming back to montgomery and growing up. after he did that he met marie, now known as “ma” and we love her and her three kids and their kids and her extended family.
Marie and her mother, Susie, at the Easter egg hunt at the farm.
While all this was going on with daddy, mama was married the time i spoke of to david who has since helped me with almost every car purchase i’ve made and i can always find him when i want to say hi. he was always good to me. mama married a long time friend of hers in 1998, a few months after daddy married marie. my stepfather’s name is george, also known as pop pop, and he’s great to us. my girls adore him. so now we have grandonna and pop pop…
and pa and ma…
and a great big family…
and its all good!
