Sunday, April 7, was the due date, but somehow I was expecting Kerri to be in church. She had been so regular for so long. When I got home I called her and left a message on her answering machine and then a little while later Susan called and said that Kerri had gone to the hospital about lunch time. A while later her step-mom called and said that she was in labor and doing good and that she would call me when something happened. Well, we had dinner and the afternoon wore on and we still didn't hear anything. I went to church and when I got home Susan and I decided we'd go to the hospital and see what was going on. When we got there, there was a crowd of Lawsons and Chad's mom standing outside the glass doors. She had just had the baby and they were waiting to go back in to see her. Well, Susan and I were in the first group to go back and when I saw the baby I had the eerie feeling that I had seen her before and when I held her I had the same feeling. When I got home, it finally dawned on me......she looked just like Tami (her Grandma) when she was new born. I've seen her a couple of times since then and she is starting to develope her own personality and her own look, but, she is surely part Whitt in addition to being part Eikost and part Lawson. Welcome to the world my beautiful little great granddaughter. I love you.

Summer or Spring? 4/16/02

Whew!!!!!!!It's been a hot one today. But I love it. I hate cold and snow and sleet and cold wind blowing and trying to put on enough clothes to keep warm and trying to keep the house warm enough to be half way comfortable. However, I do like spring and the first warm days, the flowers peeping through the soil and the birds showing up right on time. The daffodils have come and gone and the tulips and violets are blooming and my lilac bush is blooming again. The one thing I don't like are the wasps and hornets and the bees. Seems like they all love to congregate on my deck or under it where the kids play. But, I'll put up with all these things if I can have the nice warm weather. Heck, bug spray works! Right????

Cinderella 4/16/02

Saturday evening was the day I had decided to go to see Cinderella....the Averett University play that Douglas had a part in. Tami was here to see the new baby and she, Joshua and Kaitlyn went with Emily and me. Bobby, Teresa, and Rachel also went as did Cindy and Dave. We all ended up sitting sort of together although on three rows. The play started and it was so hilarious.......the fairy god mother was a fiesty, forgetful lady with a hair-do like Medusa. The prince and Cinderella were both sweet, charming and lovable and the step sisters and step mother were loud, quarrelsome and predictable. However, the show stopper was the Prime Minister. He walked like Tim Conway and when he did his pratfall and his split, the audience roared. He was soooooo funny. The whole play was really good and I know that all of us thoroughly enjoyed it. All of you who missed it......what a shame!

Handicapped or Not? 4/21/02

Ever since the weather has warmed up and for a couple of years before, I've witnessed an odd phenomenon.Not only odd, but downright funny! There is a couple, a brother and sister....and I know they are because I went to school with the sister and I remember him from school, too. Anyway, they live together down on Baugh St. and they both do a lot of business up on North main and Worship St. Well, you'll be out and you'll see them......he's in the wheel chair and she is pushing him.......up Baugh to North Main. Then a little while later, she's in the chair and he's pushing her.......back down Baugh. Then later you see him/her alone pushing the chair. If it's him, he gets to the busy intersection, usually between 3 and 4 PM. hops in the chair and puts his feet out on the pavement and races the cars across the street. Then, when he makes it safely to the other side, he hops out of the chair and pushes it into Quik Chek or on down Worsham to that other convenience mart further down the street. The other day when I took the baby out to swing and wait for her mom, I saw the sister sitting in the wheel chair at the bus stop on the other side of the street, at the intersection, all by her self. She sat there for about 10/15 min. then all of a sudden I see him come loping up Worsham St, cross from the other side and practically run up to where the sis is sitting. He says something to her and then he sits down on the bench at the bus stop. Finally, the bus comes. Sis hops up, gets on the bus........bus goes on up the street. Brother gets into the wheel chair, eases it off the curb, puts his feet out onto the pavement and literally races the traffic across. For a while there, I thought someone would have to go scrape him up off the street, but he finally made it across.....got out of his chair and went off, pushing it down Baugh St. to his house. I don't know if Bro was there to greet Sis when she came home or not, but it's kinda funny......who needs the chair.......him?.......her? can they not afford one for each of them or would that be too much trouble? Or are they on disability and use the chair "in Case" someone is watching? Does anyone besides me think this is funny? Or maybe you have to see it to appreciate it. Anyway, I'm always on the lookout for them......always wondering...whose turn to ride today? Whose turn to push?