What PERSON or CAUSE has made the biggest impact on your life? for Featured Grownups
When I first started thinking about this question, I thought this was going to be a quite complicated assignment. HUH…What was I thinking? This is a piece of cake!
My wife, Andi (QueenSuchandSuch). No, I am NOT writing about her because she blogs. I may have mentioned in previous blogs that my first wife actually put me in date clothes to send me out into the dating world. Well, that was part of it there is much more. When Teri, my first wife passed away, it was sudden and unexpected. Andi was with me through the hardest time in my life. Not only was she there for me, but most importantly my kids. The three of them were 8, 9, and 10.
Compassion and understanding. Andi made sure she was there when I told the kids. She was there when they had to go back to school. Her attitude toward helping the kids was always positive and when challenged with adversity, stepped up to the plate. When I was a slobbering ball of goo, she made sure I stayed focused.
When my middle child, Shae was having an unsually hard time with going to school and coping with her Mom's death, Andi called the school. She asked the guidance counselor if she could proclaim today Shae Day. The counselor thought this was an excellent idea and immediately hopped onto the speaker system and announced "Today is Shae Day. Please make sure you wish Shae a happy day." Andi made sure flowers were delivered and a cake was made with Happy Shae Day on it. Shae came home thrilled to death and did not stop talking about it.
This is the compassion and understanding that I live with every day. She has inspired me to make trips to the grocery store and drop hundreds of dollars just to take it to the battered womens shelter or for the can drive. Just today, we packed up half of the kitchen cabinets for a family in need. Andi is always telling me, we have so much and people around us have so little. If we even give a little, that will mean so much.
She has done so much more for me than I could ever explain. I will never be as good or compassionate of a person as she. I hope my kids have learned from her and will be as well.
My wife, Andi (QueenSuchandSuch). No, I am NOT writing about her because she blogs. I may have mentioned in previous blogs that my first wife actually put me in date clothes to send me out into the dating world. Well, that was part of it there is much more. When Teri, my first wife passed away, it was sudden and unexpected. Andi was with me through the hardest time in my life. Not only was she there for me, but most importantly my kids. The three of them were 8, 9, and 10.
Compassion and understanding. Andi made sure she was there when I told the kids. She was there when they had to go back to school. Her attitude toward helping the kids was always positive and when challenged with adversity, stepped up to the plate. When I was a slobbering ball of goo, she made sure I stayed focused.
When my middle child, Shae was having an unsually hard time with going to school and coping with her Mom's death, Andi called the school. She asked the guidance counselor if she could proclaim today Shae Day. The counselor thought this was an excellent idea and immediately hopped onto the speaker system and announced "Today is Shae Day. Please make sure you wish Shae a happy day." Andi made sure flowers were delivered and a cake was made with Happy Shae Day on it. Shae came home thrilled to death and did not stop talking about it.
This is the compassion and understanding that I live with every day. She has inspired me to make trips to the grocery store and drop hundreds of dollars just to take it to the battered womens shelter or for the can drive. Just today, we packed up half of the kitchen cabinets for a family in need. Andi is always telling me, we have so much and people around us have so little. If we even give a little, that will mean so much.
She has done so much more for me than I could ever explain. I will never be as good or compassionate of a person as she. I hope my kids have learned from her and will be as well.
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