It's not a secret.... music is a huge part of me...my heart, my soul, and my mind. Can't say it's like OCD...but almost every song I hear and listen too- I always seem to relate it to my life or someone in my life.
I have had that song "I never promised you a rose garden" on my mind and then my mom posts pictures on her facebook page of the most beautiful garden ever!(hers) Yet that story will come later...for tonight, I want to share the song by Lee Brice. So, I am driving home from school and have my ipod on, and the first few lines of his song "seventeen is too young to know what loves about, they've been together fifty -eight years now, that's crazy"...( Immeditatley my mom and dad come to my mind)....."he brought home sixty seven bucks a week, he bought alittle 2 bedroom home on Maple Street ( and yes they did live on Maple Street). I'll share the song, and then I will share the similarities of my mom and daddy.
"Just ask how he did it, he'll say pull up a seat, it'll only take a minute to tell you everything. Be a best friend, tell the truth, and overuse I love you. Go to work, do your best, don't outsmart your common sense..Never let your prayin knees get lazy, and love like crazy. Just ask him how he made it, He'll tell you faith and sweat and the heart of a faithful women, who never let him forget. Be a best friend, tell the truth, and overuse I love you. Always treat your woman like a lady, never get to old to call her baby.Never let your prayin knees get lazy, and love like crazy. They called him crazy when they started out, they've been together fifty-eight years now.....AIN'T THAT CRAZY?
This story now is about Marion Austin Reynolds born March 17th, 1940 in Bakersfield, Ca. and Alice Jeanette Bryant, born August 7th, 1940. First, just alittle about my dad... important info that has made him the man he is today. He was the baby of his family, in fact, his oldest sister was 18 years older than him. I have heard many stories of how horribly spoiled he was ( and i must mention how my mom continus to spoil him!) One of my favorite stories that I love ( and it's different, depending on who's telling it!) My dad loves to tell everyone how hard he worked in the cotton fields, picking cotton, (but his brother's story is way different....he says he picked just enough cotton to fill his bag comfortably and then lay on it and take a nap... shoot, he didnt work! Sadly his father died when he was only 12 years old. He played football in high school at Ceres High. He met my mom during their Junior year, when she transfered from Downey High school.
They married in December 1958....My dad had joined the Army, and the service life took them to Ford Ord, in Seaside, Ca....then off to Alberdine Proving Grounds in Maryland. (this is where they met their best friends, Marilyn and Jim Marrs, in which they stay in touch with and see several times a year). One of my favorite stories is whe they broke into their piggy band and went and bought a half gallon of ice-cream and some canasta,(which they still have and gave to me recently). From here they went to Ford Eudis in Newport News, Virginia, (their first apartment was cockroach infested, they only stayed one night and found another place the very next morning. AFter that, it was off to Fort Story, Virginia. At this time, my mom was pregnant with my brother Jeff, dad got his orders to Greenland, but because mom was going to have a baby, they sent Jim Marrs instead, but after Jeff was born, dad was sent to Korea for 18 months, Jeff was only 6 weeks old.. The day he got home from Korea, he took Jeff to get his first haircut, because people were mistaking him for a little girl..My daddy then got a job with Sharp Army Depot, until he was hired on with the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department, where he worked for 27 years before retiring in March 1991. In 1963, i was born. Now family was complete. We continued to live in Manteca where we attended school and grew up. We moved several times, we lived in the country for several years and raised animals and had a HUGE garden, and had horses, chickens, geese, pigs, cows and rabbits. It was eventually more than we all wanted and in my senior year we moved again. They lived here until they retired and moved to Missouri, on Table Rock Lake. This was their dream home. After 10 years of living way to far from hospitals and Walmart, they moved to Springfield, MO. They have a beatuiful home, love to work in their yard and garden, and enjoy company.
54 years wrapped up in a small nutshell...... there is so much more to both of them. I believe anyone who knows them would agree how amazing they both are.....
The other day, i walked in from work, had just a few minutes to spare before school, and i couldnt of spent those few minutes any better way than facetiming with them. It was priceless...my mom was sitting on the couch and as she moved the ipad around, i see my dad like upside down or something..... well, he was laying on the couch , with his head on my mom's lap! How sweet is that?....
so yes, 54 years filled with love, fun, sharing, traveling, friends, family, working, moving, learning, agreeing, disagreeing, but the most important of them all is love, respect and honesty. Yet, thee most important thing out of any and all things.... it isnt just the two of them, two souls, two hearts, but it's THREE of them, you see Christ is the center of their life and love...they put their faith and love for Jesus at the very top. Like Lee Brice said "BE A BEST FRIEND, TELL THE TRUTH AND OVERUSE I LOVE YOU, GO TO WORK, DO YOUR BEST, DON'T OUTSMART YOUR COMMON SENSE, NEVER LET YOUR PRAYIN' KNEES GET LAZY, AND LOVE LIKE CRAZY!"
To you both....dear mom and daddy...
I can't repay the lessons that you taught when I was small, or give you gift for gift the daily treasures I recall. I can't return encouragement and loving words of praise. In quite the way you did for me through all my childhood days. but there is one gift that I can give, It's all the love you've earned for love is what you always taught...and love is what i learned.
Before I close, this special blog....
I just want to thank you both for always being there and knowing just what to do and knowing the words to say! Thank you for patiently listening to all my worries and stresses. I love that you are only a phone call away or a text or a facebook or face timing! thank you for being my constant support when I didnt think i cope, thanking you for lifting my spirits and letting me know there IS hope.
I love you.....
Because of His Amazing Grace.....
"Just ask how he did it, he'll say pull up a seat, it'll only take a minute to tell you everything. Be a best friend, tell the truth, and overuse I love you. Go to work, do your best, don't outsmart your common sense..Never let your prayin knees get lazy, and love like crazy. Just ask him how he made it, He'll tell you faith and sweat and the heart of a faithful women, who never let him forget. Be a best friend, tell the truth, and overuse I love you. Always treat your woman like a lady, never get to old to call her baby.Never let your prayin knees get lazy, and love like crazy. They called him crazy when they started out, they've been together fifty-eight years now.....AIN'T THAT CRAZY?
This story now is about Marion Austin Reynolds born March 17th, 1940 in Bakersfield, Ca. and Alice Jeanette Bryant, born August 7th, 1940. First, just alittle about my dad... important info that has made him the man he is today. He was the baby of his family, in fact, his oldest sister was 18 years older than him. I have heard many stories of how horribly spoiled he was ( and i must mention how my mom continus to spoil him!) One of my favorite stories that I love ( and it's different, depending on who's telling it!) My dad loves to tell everyone how hard he worked in the cotton fields, picking cotton, (but his brother's story is way different....he says he picked just enough cotton to fill his bag comfortably and then lay on it and take a nap... shoot, he didnt work! Sadly his father died when he was only 12 years old. He played football in high school at Ceres High. He met my mom during their Junior year, when she transfered from Downey High school.
They married in December 1958....My dad had joined the Army, and the service life took them to Ford Ord, in Seaside, Ca....then off to Alberdine Proving Grounds in Maryland. (this is where they met their best friends, Marilyn and Jim Marrs, in which they stay in touch with and see several times a year). One of my favorite stories is whe they broke into their piggy band and went and bought a half gallon of ice-cream and some canasta,(which they still have and gave to me recently). From here they went to Ford Eudis in Newport News, Virginia, (their first apartment was cockroach infested, they only stayed one night and found another place the very next morning. AFter that, it was off to Fort Story, Virginia. At this time, my mom was pregnant with my brother Jeff, dad got his orders to Greenland, but because mom was going to have a baby, they sent Jim Marrs instead, but after Jeff was born, dad was sent to Korea for 18 months, Jeff was only 6 weeks old.. The day he got home from Korea, he took Jeff to get his first haircut, because people were mistaking him for a little girl..My daddy then got a job with Sharp Army Depot, until he was hired on with the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department, where he worked for 27 years before retiring in March 1991. In 1963, i was born. Now family was complete. We continued to live in Manteca where we attended school and grew up. We moved several times, we lived in the country for several years and raised animals and had a HUGE garden, and had horses, chickens, geese, pigs, cows and rabbits. It was eventually more than we all wanted and in my senior year we moved again. They lived here until they retired and moved to Missouri, on Table Rock Lake. This was their dream home. After 10 years of living way to far from hospitals and Walmart, they moved to Springfield, MO. They have a beatuiful home, love to work in their yard and garden, and enjoy company.
54 years wrapped up in a small nutshell...... there is so much more to both of them. I believe anyone who knows them would agree how amazing they both are.....
The other day, i walked in from work, had just a few minutes to spare before school, and i couldnt of spent those few minutes any better way than facetiming with them. It was priceless...my mom was sitting on the couch and as she moved the ipad around, i see my dad like upside down or something..... well, he was laying on the couch , with his head on my mom's lap! How sweet is that?....
so yes, 54 years filled with love, fun, sharing, traveling, friends, family, working, moving, learning, agreeing, disagreeing, but the most important of them all is love, respect and honesty. Yet, thee most important thing out of any and all things.... it isnt just the two of them, two souls, two hearts, but it's THREE of them, you see Christ is the center of their life and love...they put their faith and love for Jesus at the very top. Like Lee Brice said "BE A BEST FRIEND, TELL THE TRUTH AND OVERUSE I LOVE YOU, GO TO WORK, DO YOUR BEST, DON'T OUTSMART YOUR COMMON SENSE, NEVER LET YOUR PRAYIN' KNEES GET LAZY, AND LOVE LIKE CRAZY!"
To you both....dear mom and daddy...
I can't repay the lessons that you taught when I was small, or give you gift for gift the daily treasures I recall. I can't return encouragement and loving words of praise. In quite the way you did for me through all my childhood days. but there is one gift that I can give, It's all the love you've earned for love is what you always taught...and love is what i learned.
Before I close, this special blog....
I just want to thank you both for always being there and knowing just what to do and knowing the words to say! Thank you for patiently listening to all my worries and stresses. I love that you are only a phone call away or a text or a facebook or face timing! thank you for being my constant support when I didnt think i cope, thanking you for lifting my spirits and letting me know there IS hope.
I love you.....
Because of His Amazing Grace.....
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