WHAT WAS I LIKE WHEN I WAS 30?
The year I was 30, we had been in our home for three years. No more moves for the children and they went to the same school after our move back from Georgia when we were expecting Tera.
I work at Psychiatry Associates and Thomas works at Hayes. From then on, when he was on strike or laid off, I was working and we stayed in our house in Center Point.
Our church home is Center Point Baptist/First Baptist Center Point until we moved after 40 years to Good Hope, Cullman, Alabama.
Thomas makes a big garden every year. He has a shop at the back of the yard where he does carpentry and plants. He has vegetables and flowers of every description. We can and freeze all we can in the summer. We can green beans and tomatoes but freeze the other vegetables.
We have good neighbors. Barbara and Tommy Owens live next door and they had adopted Marc so Marc and Tera grew up as buddies (little brother/big sister). Barbara was OTC about everything but a sweet neighbor. They moved after that to Pinson, I don’t remember the year but we remained friends until her death.
Annie Lou Burkhalter (Ann Bankston now) with her family moved to Center Point Baptist. Ann and I graduated from Gordo High School together and that was a blessing to me. Ann and I are still good friends. She lives in Decatur now and I live in Smoke Rise.
Jean and Keith Sanderson spend a lot of time with us. She and her husband Tommy Sanderson are divorced. Jean and I were always as close as sisters. I try to stay in touch with her son, Keith and Terry but Terry still works and he has health issues. Their son-in-law, Shane Cook, is on disability for back problems. Their daughter, Heather, works and they have one son, Colton Blake.
Robert Hugh and Pat Mays come occasionally when Jean is visiting as does Jimmy Wayne Sanderson. I stay in touch with Craig and Kathy Sanderson. There is not as much time to contact them as I would like.
Week-ends when Thomas is not working, we usually go to Mama & Daddy Junkin’s house on Saturday and worship with them on Sunday. We go by Mother and Daddy’s on Saturday and back by for a few minutes on the way home. We usually have a load of vegetables or fruit in season and Mother sews for the girls. Aunt Evie makes cute clothes for Tera and Tanya.
With working, normal routine house duties before and after work, picking up the children from daycare and getting them to bed, etc. takes much time. I still make most of the children’s outer clothes and the girls' panties. If time permits, I sew until late. Thomas is working 3-11. Since I have to get up at 5:00 a.m. I have to go to bed before he gets home. He doesn’t get to spend much time with the children but spends quality time as much as he/we can.
Tim is 11, Tanya 10, and Tera 3. It is a wonderful time. Some of Tanya and Tera’s dresses are alike and sometimes theirs will match mine. We are happy and busy but life is so good. I am so happy to have my family and a husband who ensures that we have things we need. I have to be careful not to let him know I ‘want’ something. If we don’t have the money, he will charge it and I don’t like charging anything. My parents’ thoughts on that have been ingrained into my psych.
Would I want to be 30 again? No. I am blessed at this stage of life to be allowed to serve God and have wonderful fellowship with my sweet family. It is also a blessing to have the church family I have now at Good Hope Baptist Church where everyone is warm, loving and caring. We believe in prayer and God’s wisdom in granting our requests always; in HIS time and with HIS wisdom!
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