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Blog postHappy Birthday – on September 24 – to my precious baby, my youngest son, Jonathan. Some of my favorite Jonathan stories:
5) Soccer was Jonathan’s sport. One night, playing for Rome High his junior year, Jonathan was kicked in his head. When the resulting gash bled, Jonathan was forced to leave the game.
His coach almost never took Jonathan out of the game.
Jonathan playing sweeper for Rome High
Dr. Rogers, whose sons also played for Rome High, offered to -
Blog postOn June 11, 2011, our youngest son Jonathan married his lovely wife Jessica, in High Bridge, Kentucky.
In recognition of her birthday, here is a list of Ten Reasons We Love Our DIL Jessica:
10) Jessica is adventuresome, fearless and willing to try new things.
9) She, like Jonathan, is a dog-lover. And, like Jonathan, Jess grew up with and loves boxers. And she LOVES Oscar and LuLu, their dogs, pictured below.
8) Also, like Jonathan, she was a competitive soccer -
Blog postOur daughter Sarah Lisette was born on August 23, just before 9 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. Lisette was born at our home, with a doctor and a nurse-midwife in attendance. Dr. Griffin, dressed in jeans and a wrinkled short sleeve shirt, slouched against the door frame of the bedroom and gave my husband Gregg instructions. So that Gregg could “catch” Lisette as she was born.
The day Lisette was born. That’s Andrew nose-to-nose with his new sister and Matthew peering over his -
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Blog postTwo different fertility specialists told us that we would probably never have children. When I discovered that I was pregnant with Andrew, our first child, we were seeing the doctor who was the head of the fertility clinic at Loyola University in Chicago. She referred to Andrew as our “miracle baby.”
Andrew was born at Delnor Community Hospital in St. Charles,
Illinois
Andrew was the first “Leboyer” baby ever born at Delnor. As soon as he was born, the d -
Blog postWe got the first phone call just after 11 a.m. on Sunday, July 2, 2006. My husband Gregg was already home from church, starting Sunday dinner. When I walked in the house, just after noon, he told me, “Andrew’s in the hospital in California. They think he may be having a stroke.”
Andrew as a newborn
In 2006, our oldest son Andrew was 26 years old. For two years he had been working for Youth with a Mission (YWAM) in Los Angeles, reaching out to gang members already in trouble wi -
Blog postWe were in California the summer of 2006 when we got a phone call from our son Matthew, telling us that he had proposed to Emily Brown . . . and that she had said “yes.”
The evening Matthew proposed. How could we not love a woman who looked at our son like that!
We had met Emily – and fallen in love with her – when we’d visited Matthew in New Hampshire earlier that year. We were overjoyed with their good news.
Matthew and Emily, at the top of Moosilauke
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Blog postIn Fall 1969, as a freshman at Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, I was assigned to a lab table in Biology 101. My lab partner and I sat on one side of that lab table and Gregg Lewis and his lab partner sat on the other side. Gregg Lewis . . . a tall, blond basketball player, a good-looking jock. But I had two classes with him and quickly discovered that he was a very bright student, as well as a good-looking athlete.
Gregg as a cute, blond kindergartener.
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Blog postOver and over, while my children were growing up, I told them “Nobody gets to be perfect.” When I made mistakes, I would own up to them, apologize and say, “Nobody gets to be perfect. Not even your Mama. Only Jesus got to be perfect.”
Benjamin with Jonathan on the day of Jonathan's birth.
When their friends would do or say unkind things, I would explain that “Nobody gets to be perfect, not even your best friend.” And I would urge them to forgive and go on with the -
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Blog postBefore we had children, my husband Gregg and I had two different fertility specialists tell us that we would probably never have children. Then, when we had been married for six and a half years, we had our precious son Andrew (now 32).
Andrew at 6 months old
Eighteen months later, to the day, we had adorable Matthew (now 31).
Matthew at 4 months old
Two and a half years later we had our beautiful daughter Lisette (now 28).
Lisette at 6 months old
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Blog postWe moved from Carol Stream, Illinois to Rome, Georgia almost 24 years ago. Georgia, the land of dogwoods and azaleas, the state where I spent most of my growing-up years.
A "perfect" dogwood blossom, from the tree in our front yard.
Andrew was 8 years old, Matthew 7, Lisette 4 years old and Benjamin 3 when we moved to Georgia. I was pregnant with Jonathan, who was born in September that year.
One of the joys of living in Georgia again was driving -
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