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| "I AM RICHLY BLESSED!" I do not believe there are mistakes in life. I know that everything that happens is for a reason. It is how we learn and grow. So my life may not seem normal to you, but it is the life I was meant to have so I would learn the lessons I needed to learn (and am still learning!) FOR THIS I AM GRATEFUL I was born in Pilot Point, Texas, in a church home for unwed mothers. I was named Dorothy Jean. This was during the years that women really had no choice but to give their children up for adoption. At two weeks of age, I was adopted and renamed Naomi Ruth. I went with my new parents to live in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Four years later, my parents adopted another daughter. I grew up in Oklahoma and lived there until I was twenty-three years old. I attended three years of college at Bethany Nazarene College in Bethany, Oklahoma. While there, I excelled in drama and speech and was voted Outstanding Speech Student one of those years. I then did assistant teaching for 1 1/2 years in an Oklahoma City elementary school. From there, I attended a semester at Central State College in Edmond, Oklahoma, majoring in elementary education. While at Edmond, I met the man who would become my first husband. We married while he was attending medical school and I had three children in the six years we were married. My husband decided to come to Phoenix, Arizona to do his internship. We were divorced a couple of years after moving to Phoenix and I remarried five years later. I have been married to my current husband for almost thirty-two (32) years. I have lived in Phoenix for 40 years and love living in Arizona. Since being in Phoenix, I have searched and found my birth family and am now fortunate enough to have a wonderful relationship with my half sister who lives in Pennsylvania. I feel very blessed to have two wonderful families in my life and have learned that there is always room to love. No family who adopts or anyone who has been adopted need fear there is not enough love in their heart to love both families. I had an accounting career that lasted thirty years, but I have added all the columns, and done all the postings and financial statements I ever want to do in my life. The role I love and cherish most and consider the most important is that of being a grandmother. I have three very wonderful grandsons and a fourth grandson will be born in July 2002. My favorite time is time spent with my grandchildren. I have been a member of Unity Church for over 30 years and treasure my time spent there and all my friends I am blessed with from my church. My favorite leisure activities are taking classes and reading. I have been an avid reader since childhood. I feel it is a great joy to share my time, thoughts, and feelings with others, listen to their needs and help in any way that I can. I know happiness is an attitude! Favorite Bible Quotation "...if you have faith as small as a mustard seed....nothing will be impossible for you." Matthew 17:20 Favorite Quote "Why is it when we talk to God, we are said to be praying? and when God talks to us, we are said to be schizophrenic? (Lilly Tomlin) Favorite Motto for my Life "LIFE CAN BE AS WONDERFUL AS YOU WANT IT TO BE!" Favorite Movie Line "Everytime you hear a bell, another angel has earned it's wings." The circumstances of your birth are irrelevant. What you do with the gift of life determines what you are. |
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| When I'm Sixty-Four by the Beatles When I get older losing my hair, Many years from now Will you still be sending me a valentine, Birthday greetings, bottle of wine If I'd been out till quarter to three Wold you lock the door Will you still need me, will you still feed me When I'm sixty-four. You'll be older too, And if you say the word I could stay with you. I could be handy mending a fuse When your lights have gone You can knit a sweater by the fireside Sunday morning go for a ride Doing the garden, digging the weeds, Who could ask for more Will you still need me, will you still feed me When I'm sixty-four. Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear We shall scrimp and save Grandchildren on your knee Vera, Chuck & Dave Send me a postcard, drop me a line Stating point of view Indicate precisely what you mean to say Yours sincerely, wasting away Give me your answer, fill in a form, Mine for evermore, Will you still need me, will you still feed me When I'm sixty-four. |