Ready to hit Mamaw with a snowball
I took these pics on Sunday, should have took some on Saturday, but we were just to busy playing. Sunday, some of the snow was already gone, but the kids still got to sled.
Friday as soon as the snow began to fall, they wanted to go outside, so we did. Brandon was home saturday, thankfully his office closed for the day. We had a wonderful weekend!!
Sat. the snow was more of an icy/sludge mix. We go outside to sled. Brandon went around back to start a fire in the pit and the kids and I go to the neighbors yard, the hill is steeper. Brock is the first to sled and he takes off like a bullet. Not joking! I am at the bottom close to our driveway to catch him, Papaw and Mamaw Leffew have just come down the road in the truck and witness the entire scene, so picture this: I notice he is going rather fast and I prepare myself to get him, I am ready, just catch him, I tell myself. Here he comes, a little bullet on a saucer, hands are in position, but..............he shoots right through my hands bewtween my legs and is heading for the driveway, which leads to the road, which leads to another slope, and another slope, to the woods. Oh No!! I turn, in all my gear and run, you know how it feels like you can't move in the big boots and layers, well that is how I felt anyways. It all happenes so fast! I think he slowed a little when he hit the driveway which enabled me to catch up to him. Thank you Lord for protecting him!! He is screaming, I am laughing now. You can only imagine how the grandparents felt watching this.......thankfully, we all can laugh now and it was a funny scene. Brandon missed the entire epsiode.
Keira's turn! I don't want to make the same mistake as before, so I basically tackled her, which lead to my knee connecting with her forehead/side of her head. So, she is crying hard. Needless to say, she doesn't want me to catch her again. I wonder if any of our neighbors saw all this. LOL!! I know Mr. Pryor did, he was on his steps shoveling snow.
After all this, Daddy caught them. Papaw and Daddy shoveled our entire driveway and then we went inside. We ended up going to Turkey Creek and ate at Pei Wei (love this place) and shopped a little.
Sunday, we had another wonderful day at home, eating, watching basketball, playing outside and we all pitched in to help clear the yard of the tress we had cut the other day. Well, the kids didn't last long.
My Granny Mullins went home to be with the Lord at 1 a.m. on Feb. 27th, 2010. She hung in as long as the Lord let her. We thought Wed. was it, but it wasn't time. She was 88 yrs old.
My grandmother was a hard-working woman all her life. She lived in KY, where she met and married my grandfather, who passed away 16-17 yrs ago, from cancer. He was a coalminer and they were very poor. They worked very hard and saw many hardships, but made it through. My granny gave birth to 12 children, yes 12, which I can't imagine. The baby died a few days after he was born. 10 children are still living and I think she has 28 grandchildren and 14 great-grandhildren, if we counted right. :)
My granny was so tired and her body gave out. I am so thankful that she is at home with our Saviour and been reunited with loved ones, especially her baby. I have never heard her talk about this my entire life. My granny loved to go to the auction and every Sat. evening we all knew where she was to be found. Better not get her seat, you might get in trouble. She loved yard sales too. Granny tended her garden and supplied her family with homegrown food. She was also a wonderful sewer and loved to do crafts and was a quilter. I still have my Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls she made me when I was young. I thought of this as I held her hand one final time Friday afternoon. Hands that raised 11 children, hands that worked non-stop, hands that fed her family, hands that made her apple turnovers that she loved, hands that quilted with love (quilts I will keep the rest of my life), hands that held each grandchild, hands that held each great-grandchild, hands that just did it all. Know those same hands are praising God!!
Even though my Granny did not show much emotion, I know she loved each child and all her gandchildren more than she showed and more than some thought. I know she was proud of me and all my accomplishments in this life, even if she told Brandon she wasn't happy about us getting married. We have always laughed about that. Or at my baby shower, she said she "only wanted 2 kids" , we all just laughed, cause that is the way she was. Obviously, God's plan was for them to have 12. Maybe she said these kinds of things because she had been through so much heartache in her life and saw so much heartache in her own children's life. I don't know. I will never know the answers this side of eternity. I am so glad she is at peace now. Peace isn't always easy to come by in a rather large family. I am blessed to have had her for 32 yrs and will remember the good times and those special moments when she hugged me and said "I love you" and all those times she use to slip me money when I was in college, thinking my mom didn't know.
