WHO AM I?

T: Where is your home town? What about your family?

L: I grew up in Kansas City - I actually have a fascination about how it was a "cow town."  I love to read about the history of downtown Kansas City, Kansas especially.  My great - grandfather owned a corner grocery store about 5th and Ann.  He was 2nd generation from a Scottish immigrant family. His daughter married a railroad man and they settled in Kansas City, Kansas.  They lived on the 'rich' side of the train tracks. Fast forward a few years and they married off their daughter (my mother) to a hard-working young man from the 'other side of the tracks'.  My parents were married in 1941 and lived together 62 wonderful years.  My mother has passed away and my father is still healthy and investing in his grand-children.

My parents moved out of KC, KS and settled in the "Piper" area.  This has since become a destination point since the Legends Shopping and NASCAR Speedway along with hundreds of stores have populated the community.  

T: What high school did you attend? Participate in any activities?

L I attended a small protestant school and I excelled in the important subject like yearbook and cheerleading.  Oh, those weren't subjects?  Hum, well I managed to get a good guy and settled down myself.

  

T;  Music you enjoy?   Movies you like?

L  I love to watch movies with my kiddos.  I really enjoyed reading 'Hunger Games' and my favorite all-time movie is "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (about the French Revolution)

T: Anything else special, unusual, different about you or your experiences growing up?
L. I have such great memories with a strong family center and lots of good-old hard work. I learned to sew, cook and garden - all of which have come in handy with six children of my own.

"I have come to know that our families are a canvas on which we paint our greatest hopes, imperfect and sloppy, for we are all amateurs at life. But if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges, and we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude - it's the chance to paint."

Richard Paul Evans from "Finding Noel"

This Christmas I found time to listen to a book on tape.  CD of course, who has a tape player these days?
Speaking of time, I didn't really "find time" I mostly "took time" from some other worthy cause.  I stole away with my two girls still living at home, put them in a van with a CD player and started driving.  Hum....  The things we have to do to get some personal time these days!!

What have you done to connect with someone?  Have you let the dishes languish or the laundry mold? Will it hurt so much to do that?  The days are fleeting and the pulls are never-ending.  I hope I painted a picture that will last a life-time - a picture of love on the canvas of time.

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