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CHAPTER 10

On the day of the Party we decorated the Dinning Room

and put the final touches on the Food and once Donald's

Guests arrived and the Party was in full wing, it made the

wait worth it, because with all of the laughter bounching

off the walls helped everyone forget about the Chicken

Poxs and the pain that came with it.

Miriam and Jill came to the Party to have fun and be with

Bonnie, because they were having their own Party.

The Children's Family, Miriam, and Anna enjoyed it also

because they had been so tired with all they had been

through during the weeks of the Chicken Poxs.

After all the Presents had been open and all the Cake was

gone the Children left the Dinning Room and went out to

play some Basketball until it was time for them to leave.

The games didn't last long because it was starting to cool

off, although it was still warmer out than is normal for this

time of the year.

This Party put everyone in the mood for the Christmas

Holidays!

We ordered our Christmas Stone Ware Plates and by the

time we are done painting and having them refired, we

will have made 500 Plates, 1000 Handles for Silver Ware,

50 Serving Platters, 500 Bowls and 50 Serving Bowls.

This is the first year we were doing this and if our Guests

like them, we will have them for sale next year.

Two days after the Family arrived, we had a meeting to let

everyone how the house and RV Park was doing and the

plans that we had made to expand.

Also we were planing to have different Style of Food add to

the menu each night along with Southern Style Foods.

We were planing to add an additional Dinning Room off

the Kitchen, plus Cabin Rooms with their own Bathrooms,

Patios, Hot Plates, and Coffee Makers in the field above the

Fruit Trees.

Alice and Ben were to talk about the Scooters that they will

be buying for our Guests to rent and to sell, as well.

Betty and Frank were also to talk the best ideas for us to

go green and the cost of the preposted ideas and how long

it would take, start to finish, to get them into place.

After everyone had Cake and Coffee, we left the Dinning

Room to get ready for the Dinner Crowd and the Private

Surprise Birthday Party of 20 invited Guests for one of the

Guests that was staying at the house.

Mary Virginia was turning 27 years old and her Brother

Chase Benteen, had arranged the Party when he had

booked their room back in august.

The Staff was working hard, while we were having our

meeting, to get the Study ready for the Birthday Party and

fixing the Dinner for the Dinner Crowd.

Tonight we were having a Southern Style Dinner of Roast

Beef, Roasted Chicken, Baked Pork Roast, Baby Carrots,

Potatoes, Early Peas, Baby Onions, Gravy, Creamed Potatoes,

Potato Salad, Creamed Corn, Corn on the Cob, Yeast Rolls,

and the Desserts.

Normally we only have 5 Roast Beefs, 5 Roasted Chickens,

and 5 Baked Pork Roasts, but tonight with the reservations

we had to make 7 Roast Beefs, 7 Roasted Chickens, 7 Baked

Pork Roasts plus extra pans of Rolls and Desserts so our

Ovens were working overtime.

The Christmas Trees were being delivered the next day,

which would be three days before Christmas.

Bob and his crew set up the Christmas Trees and the

Wreaths in the Loby on the Porches and in the Tent and

decorated them all and added the Lights all around the

house and RV Park.

This was to be Bob's last year working for us, because his

health was getting bad and the Doctors wanted him to take

it easy, but he would still be around to give advise when it

was need.

We had already decided that we were going to need a lot

of advise, but not so much that Bob would feel as if he

needed to go out and supervise the project, but to look

in on it every once in a while.

For Christmas our Neighbors had booked all of our tables

inside and outside in the Tent, were we will have set up

Fireplaces on each end to help keep it warm from 11:00

AM - 10:00PM that night.

This was the Twins first Christmas and I wanted them to

have a Great First Christmas, so after we put up the

Christmas Tree and decorating it, we all had Egg Nog and

sang Christmas Songs.

It was time for everyone to go to bed, after they were

asleep I put out one Present at the foot of their beds for

them to find the next morning.

It was decided at the meeting that this year we would have

the Family Christmas Party at my House and the Family

would come in turns and the Children would open a Present

with each turn.

Anna had volunteered to take the Pictures to add to our

Christmas album.

For Christmas we were trying something new also, Deep

Fried Turkey and Chicken along with the Roasted Turkey,

Chicken, Cornish Hens, and Baked Ham.

We started baking at 5:00 in the morning on Christmas,

but we starting Roasting the Turkeys, Chickens, Cornish

Hen, and Ducks at 8:00.

Christmas Morning Dad and Uncle Fred set up 5 Deep Fryer

for the Turkeys outside were all of the Uncles were going to

take turns watching them.

They started the Turkeys in the Deep Fryers at 8:00 also,

they were ready to serve by 11:00 when the first Guests

starting coming in.

This was our biggest day ever, we cooked 75 Roasted

Turkeys, 15 Deep Fryed Turkeys, 25 Roasted Chickens,

20 Cornish Hens, and 15 Ducks.

I wasn't able to take my turn to eat so I was letting

someone else clean up and close the Basement Kitchen so

I could go and eat.

Before I left the house I called Anna to find out what was

left, she told me that there wasn't much left so I went into

the Main Kitchen to get what they had left.

There was a whole Roasted Turkey, some Chicken Breast,

Potato Salad, Sweet Potato Casserole, Warm Yeast Rolls, 1

Fresh Carrot Cake, 1 Pumpkin Cake, and 1 Applesauce Cake

and all with Cream Cheese Frosting, 1 Pumpkin Pie, 1 Pecan

Pie, Southern Style, and 1 Apple Pie left so I some of the

Turkey and Chicken Breast, half of the Potato Salad, Sweet

Potato Casserole, Yeast Rolls, Cakes, and Pies.

I know that sound like a lot but it isn't, because I am

hungry and the Family will still be there waiting on me to

bring them something to eat or will arrive shortly after I do.

By the time I got home everyone except Anna was in bed

sound asleep, so I sat down, took a deep breath and relaxed

for a few minutes.

I fixed me a plate of everything except the Dessert and a

tall Glass of Ice Tea and ate, by the time I finished the first

plate the Family arrived with the rest of the Food I had left

in the house Kitchen.

While they filled their plates we talked and I filled my plate

with Desserts, we talked and ate.

Mom and Dad were the first to go because they were on

duty first thing to fix Breakfast, the rest left about 2:00 AM

to go home so I could get some sleep because the Children

would be up shortly and I was on duty for the Lunch Crowd.

I got about 4 and half hours sleep before the Children woke

me to show what Santa had gotten them and what the

Family had given them.

Bonnie and Donald were a little upset with me because I

had not come home to be with them on Christmas, so I

explained to them about thing that had to be done and

sometimes there would be times I couldn't be there, but I

would always be there when it counted.

By the time I left to go and do the Lunch they had

forgiven me and were happy again, but I felt guilty.

Because we had messed up so badly yesterday, I wasn't

able to leave when it was my time to leave and take my

break.

When the Lunch Crowd were gone, I called a meeting of all

Staff and Linda to talk about what had happened, and find

out why we had been overbooked.

Linda told us that one of the Aunts had filled in at the

Front Desk for about 2 hours while Linda ran some errands.

That would normally be fine, but this time Aunt Bea had

been so overwhelmed by the number of phone calls that

she had forgot to put down all of the reservations.

It was decided that the next time a Holiday came, we would

have two people on the phone taking down reservations so

we won't have this kind of mix up again.

Aunt Bea felt bad about what had happen, but I told her

that it really wasn't a problem, because it had taught us a

lesson that we needed to learn.

I asked her to help Linda with the phone on December 30

and 31 for the New Years reservations and told them that if

they have to leave the Desk for more than 15 minutes they

were to call someone to come and take over for them and

if the phone calls were overwhelming then call and get

someone before they leave.

They were both very happy with that arrangment!

On December 30th found both Aunt Bea and Linda hard

at work on the phone taking reservations.

The most we could take was 150 people at one time in the

house and 50 people in the Tent, so they could have room

to dance.

We were opening all of the rooms on the Main Floor with

Televisions and Stereo Speakers in every room and the in

Tent, so everyone could listen to the Music and watch the

Ball Drop in New York's Time Square.

We were booked up by 10:00 PM on December 30, but we

were still getting calls for reservations.

The next morning after Breakfast, and while the Staff

worked hard fixing for the Lunch Crowd, we started fixing

the Food for the Dance that evening and getting the Main

Floor ready.

Also we were sitting up Tables at the Front Doors so

people had to give their names and pay before they could

get in.

For safty, we could only have 200 people in the house and

Tent.

Most people would not show up without making

reservations first, but on occasion a few will.

This year it was Dad and Uncle Fred's turn to man the

Front Doors.

We had all of the Staff working that day and night, with

30 minute breaks every 4 hours and 1 hour for dinner.

Tonight was no different, Dad and Fred had to ask a few

to leave when they didn't have reservations, and there were

two couples who came in that had reservations who were

drunk.

Dad would not take their money until they had sobered up,

but when they refused so Dad had to ask them to leave.

The Guests were enjoying the Food and Music when we

heard the exchange of words before the couples lefted.

I had the Staff turn the Music up a bit so it would not

desturb our sitted Guests, while I went out to check on

Dad and Uncle Fred.

The other couple was trying to get the loud couple to leave

and were having a very hard time, but they managed to get

them out the door so Dad could close the door.

Dad and Fred stayed at the doors to make sure the couples

got back in their car and left.

Miriam and Linda were the MC's that night, so after Supper

was over and the Staff cleared off all the Tables and

removed the Tables, they finished setting up so they could

get the Party started.

Our Guests were having good clean fun, dancing, singing,

and talking, so I went out to check on our other Guests

when I saw the young man that Dad and Uncle Fred had

made leave, coming back in the Front Door.

I went around the Main Desk and looked up and there

stood the young man with a gun pointed straight at me,

I dropped and mashed the Police Bottom.

I heard a loud bang coming from the doors closing and

locking and the bars on the Window closing and locking.

With the house on lockdown no one could leave or come

in which kept the Guests safe.

Dad and Uncle Fred headed for the hidden office to see

what was going on, what they saw made their blood run

cold.

They saw the young man standing at the Front Desk with a

gun in his hand and the look of shock on his face and me

laying on the floor behind the Desk with blood running

down my face.

They jumped when the phone rang.

It was the Police calling to see what was going on and

when Dad told them what they saw, he was told that help

was on the way and to keep everyone out of the Lobby,

that an Ambulance was on it's way also.

Dad called my house and told Anna to keep the Children

away for the Windows so they wouldn't see the Police

coming in.

Anna asked him what was the problem and she was told

that they had so trouble with one of the Guests and he

would let her know something as soon as he could.

Jill called her Mom and told her that Bonnie's head was

hurting and that it was because her Mom was hurt in the

head, she wanted to know what to do.

Miriam told her to tell Anna not to give Bonnie anything for

the pain.

Anna knew about the connection between Bonnie and me,

so she wasn't surprised when Jill told her about Bonnie's

head hurting.

This worried Anna so bad that she would slip out of the room

every chance she got to look down at the Main House, which

didn't tell her anything until she saw the Ambulance come in,

that was when she knew that someone had been hurt and

she had a bad feeling that Bonnie was right and it had be

me that had gotten hurt.

All Dad and Uncle Fred could do was stand there and watch

the young man stand there crying and all of their Guests

dancing and having fun.

That was the longest 10 minutes that Dad and Uncle Fred

had ever gone through.

When the Police broke in the Front Door and took the man

into custody and the Ambulance People came in and

checked me out and loaded me in the Ambulance and left,

Dad called Danny on his Cell Phone and asked him how to

open the doors.

Danny talked him through it, while Uncle Fred went out to

get Mom and Aunt Ontonette so they could go to the

hospital to be with me.

Danny, the Staff, Linda, and Miriam had been the only ones

that knew that something was wrong and they had done

just as we had practised.

Once Dad had the Doors and Bars unlocked, some of the

Staff went outside to open the Bars and hook them back.

The Party went on until 3:00 in the morning and the Staff

told Dad to leave, they would clean up and get thing ready

for Breakfast, and all they wanted was him to call and let

them know what was happening and how I was!

When he got to the hospital, I was just coming out of

surgery!!

So when the Doctor came out and he told them some good

news, the bullet had hit and cracked my skull and came back

out the entry hole.

He told Mom, Dad, and Aunt Ontonette that they could see

me, but they had put me into a Coma because of the

swelling of the Brain.

Mom or Dad was alway there so one day about a week

after the shoting, I sat up in bed and told Jennifer to get

out of my house.

Mom left me long enough to call Dad and tell him to go up

to my house because Jennifer was up there causing trouble.

Dad went up there and got Jennifer out and made her

leave then he went into my office and call my lawyer to

see if I had made provision in case something like this

happen.

I had left Dad and Mom incharge of the Children, Money,

and both Houses until I was able to take over again or I

was able to come home again.

Anna was to stay with the Children and do what was doing

now!

My Lawyer to him he would call him back just as soon as

he could get it on the docket at the Courthouse.

It took him two days to get it up before the Judge, by that

time Jennifer had also filed a motion to take positions of

the Houses, Children, and Money.

The Judge listened to both sides and then sided with my

Dad, because I had made a living will which told him my

wishes.

Jennifer was not happy and vowed that she would get all

of it.

Back at the hospital, I sat up just as the Doctor walked in

and I told Mom what the Judge had said and what Jennifer

had done and said after they had left the Court Room and

then I layed back down.

When Mom turned to the Doctor and got a look at his face,

he was shocked and stuned.

Mom just told him that it was OK and that this had happen

before, the Doctor shook off the shocked and stuned

expression, then he told Mom that this should not be

happening and that he was going to order more test to

make sure I was still in a Deep Coma.

After the Doctor left I sat up again and told Mom to go

home and pack the Children's Clothes and thing that they

would need for three months and go to JJ's and stay in the

house there.

I also told her not to use the Phone for anything and she

was to turn the Cell Phone off once she, Anna, and the

Children left the House, until Dad came and got them.

Also I told her to stop and pick up all of the Baby Supplies

that she would need to last the three months that they

would be gone so JJ wouldn't have to get anything.

JJ is a Cousin who lives off the land, but has a very nice

big house which he guards like his life is in danger, so I

know that they will be safe there.

She was to get Aunt Ontonette and Linda to come and

stay with me and get Uncle Fred to help Dad with both

Houses and all of the Business.

When Dad and the Lawyer got to the hospital, I was

undergoing the Test that the Doctor wanted done, Dad and

the Lawyer told Mom what had happen and Mom told them

what I had told her to do.

The Lawyer was shocked that Mom had know so much

about what had happen in Court, until they told him that

I had always be able to do thing like this sence I was a

small Child.

So by the time the Nurses brough me back in, the Lawyer

felt that he could handle anything that came his way.

When the Nurses left I again sat up and spoke directly to

him and told him what he was to do about Jennifer and

the care of my Children and Money.

He, Dad, and Uncle Fred, if he was willing, were to be in

charge with the Lawyer being silent and unknown, and no

talking on the Phone.

They were to meet as Friends, which they all were, in

private.

When Aunt Ontonette arrived, she was filled in on what

had happen, the Lawyer left to set in motion the requests

I had made of him.

Mom and Dad waited for the Doctor to come in to tell them

what he had found out from the Tests and he comformed

that I was still in a Deep Coma, he was told not to tell

anyone what he had heard from me.

He also told them that he was going to start bring me out

of the Coma the next week and he promised never tell what

he had heard that day.

After he left, Mom and Dad Kissed me goodbye and

promised to do as I had asked, Dad left to go back to the

House and Mom had switched cars with Aunt Ontonette so

that no one knew that she had left and then she went to

the Store to get the thing that would be need.

By the time Mom got to my House it was dark and there

was a strange Van setting beside of the house.

JJ met her at the door, wanting to know what was going

on, because he had gotten a very strange message from

me telling him to get a Van and come here!

Now JJ was a very odd person who enjoyed Children

because they were more truthful than Adults and the

silence of his 50 acker Farm and he didn't like company,

but he would do what ever it took to keep my Children,

Family, and Friends safe.

When Mom had explained what had been going on he

understood and started getting together the thing that

were in house that would be needed.

While they were waiting to leave Aunt Ontonette call and

told them to stop and get Miriam and Jill.

They would wait until about 2:00 in the morning to load

the Van to leave.

Mom would drive Aunt Ontonette's Car and park it, were

she always parked it, and then get into the Van to leave.

They went to Miriam's Home were her and Jill were waiting

for them, because their lives were also in danger, because

should something happen to Me then it all went to Mom

and Dad, then to Miriam and Jill.

Dad made sure no one saw them leave from the Main

House!

When JJ came in he had made sure no one could see his

face, but to be on the safe side, he turned a two hour trip

into 6 hour trip.

By now I gress you thing I and the Family are a bunch of

crazy people, we aren't, you see Jennifer had hired the

Gunman to kill me, Mom, and Dad.

You see that young man owed Jennifer a lot of money,

which he couldn't repay, so Jennifer was making him do

this as payment of his debt.

That same night someone broke into my Lawyer's Office

and stole "only" a copy of my Will.

The next morning the Police showed up at the Main House

to talk to Dad.

They had been up at the House looking for Mom and Anna,

because they were going to take them somewere safe.

The Police wanted to know were Mom, Anna, and the

Children were, Dad told them that they all had gone to a

very safe place that no one not even the Family knew about.

While they were talking to Dad, they got a phone call saying

that Miriam and Jill had disappeared and they had talked to

Brenda at the Day Care who told them that Miriam had

called her late last night and told her that she would be

gone for a while and that Brenda was in charge until she

returned.

They told Dad that they had put a guard outside of my

room and that Aunt Ontonette would not be able to leave

and Linda or Dad would not be able to go in.

The hospital Staff was putting another bed in the room for

her.

Uncle Fred was to pack Aunt Ontonette some clothes for

them to take to her.

They were going to take them to the hospital and then go

back and talk to the gunman to see if he would talk to them

and maybe tell them what was going on.

What no one knew was that the gunman had been

attacked while he had been in the shower and befored he

died he told the Officer why he had shot me and that

Jennifer was behind it all, the shoting and his stabing.

Later that day the Detective came back to talk with Dad

some more about the people who had been with the

gunman and Dad gave them a copy of the film that clearly

showed both couples faces and the film of the car and tag

that they left in.

The Detective called in the tag number and it came back

with the address of a Jane Mosely, he left promising to

keep Dad informed about what was happening.

They were hoping to get to her before she too met with

a accident, they got lucky.

By the time they got to Jane Mosely home, they could tell

that Jane was afraid, the Detective started asking her lots

of questions and she broke down and told them everything

when they promised to protect her.

They took her out with them, they were going to take

Jane to a safe place, when they encountered Jennifer.

Jane broke away from the Police Officers and ran, she

didn't get very far when the shots rang out and Jane

was shot, but not dead, she just played dead.

It had not been Jennifer who had shot Jane, but someone

elso, so the Officers couldn't arrest Jennifer.

It would take the Detective two more months to get the

evidence they need to convict Jennifer of 2 counts of

attemped murder and 1 count of murder.

When Dad was told that it was OK to bring everyone home,

so Dad went to JJ's and got the Children, Mom, Anna, and

Miriam.

By the time he arrived at JJ's it was late and the Children

were asleep.

He told them about all that had gone on while they had

been here, Dad told them to watch out for strangers, just

to be on the safe side, and that I was coming home the

next day.

I was going to need therapy, because my left side wasn't

working like it should, but with help I should be back to

normal.

The good thing about all of this was that JJ and Miriam

had gotten very close.

They would be visiting each other often, but most

important Jill loved him.

It would be wonderful they became a Family, they each

deserved happiness.

By the time Dad got everyone home it was morning and

the Children were waking up wanting their Breakfast, so

Dad stoped at the house so they could eat and then took

them home and helped them get set up again.

Anna had been the smart one, because she had sleep the

whole way home so she was ready to take over and let

Mom get some rest.

Aunt Ontonette was bring me home at 12 noon.

Linda had been up at the house and had gotten my room

ready for me, so they wouldn't have to do anything.

Linda was to come back when I got home to help out

because she knew that everyone would be tired and the

Children would be so excited to be home again that they

might be hyper.

That was an understatement!!!

Bonnie and Donald were so glad to be back in their own

room that they were all over them and touching all of their

toys, pictures, and books.

Grace and Bradley couldn't understand the excitement,

because they had taken all of their things and beds with

them.

It got worse when I came in, because I looked and

sounded different, the Twins started crying and hiding

behind Anna.

Bonnie and Donald came running to me and was so happy

to see me that they starting crying and talking at the same

time, asking lots of questions about why I looked different,

about the BooBoo on my head, and why I walked funny.

I just took them in my arms and gave them a big hug,

then explained that I had an accident and hit my head

hard, but I would be alright.

By the time I was through telling them about that, Grace

came over and was standing in front of me looking at me

and listening, she just turned and looked at Bradley and

nodded at him and said Mommy.

Bradly came over and looked and listened then they both

got up in my lap and hugged me, talking a mile a minute,

they were so happy to see me and had lots to tell me about.

I just sat there listening and looking at them, I had missed

them so much!!

When Linda came in she had Lunch for everyone so Anna

wouldn't have to cook, Mom was still asleep.

I was getting tired so while Anna got the Lunch ready,

Linda helped me into my bed so I could rest, so when

Anna brought me a plate of Food I was just to tired to eat.

Linda and I would talk later when I felt better.

Bonnie and Donald told Linda about JJ's Farm and his

funny Prized Winning Black Orchid that looks like it has a

almost black Clam on it with greenish yellow spider like

pedals.

Donald told her that they grow on logs that were in a

building.

JJ had always been able to grow any kind of plant that he

wanted, sometime it took a while for him to figure out way

to make something grow, but when he did the flowers were

always beautiful.

Bonnie and Donald drawed picture of the Orchid and gave

them to Linda so she would know what they looked like.

After my nap, I made it to the door of the living room

when Linda came and helped me to the couch.

Anna handed me my plate and told me the Children were

taking a nap.

While I ate, Anna told me that Bonnie and Donald asked a

lot of questions about why I had not come with them, and

why they had to be at JJ's.

They had told them that I was in the hospital because I

had hurt my head, arm, leg, and the reason they were at

JJ's was because they were on vacation.

His place was beautiful with all the different flowers,

trees, and bushes, also he had some beautiful Llamas.

I asked them if he had got the house fixed yet, because

the last time I was there it was falling down.

They told me that the house was beautiful work of art and

it had been built out of cedar inside and out.

February 8th they had a birthday party for Grace and

Bradley.

JJ had gone out to a different State and bought the

Twins presents that Mom and Anna had told him to

get and he found some toys for Children 1 year old. 

around the yard and on the trails through the woods, when

they went walking.

Bonnie's birthday was in April so JJ had made another trip

to get some things that the Twins and to get Bonnie

some birthday presents also.

He found some stuffed Llamas so he got them for her.

While he was gone, Mom baked Bonnie a Cake and fixed

her favorite foods, which made her happy.

She missed me though which made her a little sad but

Mom and Anna had a long talk with her to let her

know that I loved her and she would be seeing me

soon. 

Bonnie wanted a Crita, baby Llama, but Anna told her that

there wasn't any place for the baby and besides it would be

lonely by his self.

Miriam came on later that evening to see how I was doing

and to ask me questions about JJ.

She asked me were JJ worked and how he had gotten his

money?

Miriam told me that some men had came to see JJ while

they were there, she thought that they wanted him to

come back to work, but he refused.

The men were not happy when they left, but JJ was!!

I didn't know for sure but I told her that I thought he

had worked for the some Company that had him doing a

lot of traveling over seas.

That had been when he picked up the first Orchid and

growing tips and he had gotten the Llamas later.

JJ wasn't happy working for that Company but they had

paid him very well, when he had saved enough money he

had quite so he could raise the Orchids and Llamas.

The next day Sally came in to help me get back in shape, she

brought in a bicycle for me to ride, and 2 pound bumb bells.

She helped me with range of motion and show me how to do

it by myself, because she would only be there 3 days a week.

After she left I was so tired that I took a nap.

When I woke up I went outside and walked around in the

yard to work out the kinks, I felt a lot better.

By the time the Children came out to play, I was able to

play with them.

From then on the Children would help me do the exercises

that Sally was teaching me to do.

That became my favorite time of the day, the Children

and exercising and playing.

They would make me laugh trying to do the exercises and

when I would be so stiff that I couldn't do them they

would laugh at me when I would make the funny noises,

and believe me I made thoses funny noises a lot.

At first Bonnie had a very hard time with the exercises and

would get so mad because she couldn't get her arms and

legs working at the same time to do the exercises.

When she realised that I was have the same trouble she

just worked harder until she was able to do them.

I was so proud of her, she didn't give up like I wanted to

but knew I couldn't.

By the time I was able to do the exercises, Bonnie was

doing almost as well as Sally.

On the days that Jill was there Sally and Bonnie would help

her to do the exercises, which helped Jill to walk better.

Between the Horse riding and the Walking exercises, Jill

walking had improved greatly.

Sally and I had become Friends, so she would show us

exercises that the Children could do and she would make

it fun for all of us.

Even after I was better, the Children and I continued with

the exercises that Sally had showed me the last day she

came.

Sometimes Sally would come by, on mornings that she

didn't have people to see, and we all, would exercise

together.

Even Anna would workout with us, she said it made her feel

better.

This has really brough my Family closer than before, and

we were very close.

It also made them feel like they were helping me get

better and it is a good start to some healthy habits.

It is a good think that I was better, because School will be

starting soon and you know what we need to do, go School

Clothes Shopping.

On the way to the Store, we droped Grace and Bradley off

at the Day Care with Miriam.

Donald was the easy one, but I fear that when he starts

School he will be picky, I hope not as picky as Bonnie!!

Bonnie had been working on her Clothes selection while

Donald and I had been getting his, which had taken an

hour, and so far she only had 1 outfit out of 6.

Anna left to get us some chairs so we can sat in the

middle of the girl section and let her work!

Some of the New Store Employees came by to tell us that

we had to move, which we did, but it wasn't long until they

had the Store Manager come and talk to us.

When he walk up with the Employee I said hi Ed, how is it

going?

We talked for a time while we watched Bonnie work the

clothes racks.

Ed was also watching Bonnie and when she went to the

dressing room for the 5th time, he turned to me and said

that he understood why we were sitting, because just

watching Bonnie had made him tired.

He just reminded us to move around so we don't block the

racks.

Several of our Friends came by and we would talk to them

while watching Bonnie.

You would think that Bonnie was putting on a play the way

Friends and Strangers would stop and watch.

We were having fun until Anna and I noticed a Stranger

watching Bonnie to closely and that made us both nervous

so Anna went to Bonnie and started following her around until

that Stranger left.

By the time Bonnie had all the outfits that she needed to start

School and all of the School Supplies it was 5:00 in the evening.

Donald had left with Mom when she came by to check on us.  

Bonnie had her fashion show, but this year, unknown to

Donald, she had add him too.

When Donald found out he wasn't very happy, but Bonnie

had a long talk with him and had gotten him to do it.

Needless to say, Donald was sooooo happy when it was all

over and he could put his play clothes back on and go play.

School would start in about 2 weeks.

Bonnie and Jill wanted to know how they could exercise in

the mornings then, I just told them that if they wanted to

exercise then they would have to get up early and then

get ready for School.

Since we only did it 3 days a week then Jill could stay with

us the nights before and ride the bus from here if that was

alright with Miriam.

Miriam and I didn't thing the exercising bug would last

long but you never know when you have Children like

Bonnie and Jill.

Miriam had to take Jill in to see her Doctor the week

before School started and the Doctor had commented

about Jill's improvements in her legs and arms.

Miriam told him about the exercises that she had been

doing along with the Horse riding.

He wanted some XRays of her Legs and Arms just so he

could compair them to earlier one to make sure that

everything was alright.

Two days after the XRays were done the Doctor called and

said that everything was great and that there was far more

improvement than he first thought.

He just said that to do no more than the 3 days of exercise

for 1 hour each day along with the Horse riding was enough

for her.

Jill had gone from a wheelchair to walker then a cane and

since we started the exercises she had stopped using that.

She was hoping to be able to run like other Children soon.

Miriam and I knew that one day she may wake up and not

be able to walk again, We Hoped Not!!

We Mothers have a lot to worry about, Children are our

biggest worry of all!!!

Three days before School started Miriam and I had a meeting

with Jill and Bonnie's Teacher to talk to her about the girls.

When it was our turn, we went in and interduced ourselfs to

the Teacher and told her we would be taping the meeting so

we could remember what was said and decided.

Mrs. Tompson said that would be find.

She talked to Miriam first and told Miriam that Jill would be

working on Math, Reading, Writing, and Spelling.

I told Mrs. Tompson the Bonnie will enjoy these kind of

classes and would be a big help to her, but Mrs. Tompson

said that she was going to have Bonnie moved to another

class, if she could to another country, because she had no

intendion of having Bonnie in her class to disrup the class

with her wineing.

We were so shocked that we didn't say anything for a

minute and then we just got up and went to the Principal

Mr. Hill and played him the tape.

When he heard the tape, he told us he would move both

girls to another class and he would let us know who the

Teacher was and set up an appointment for us.

That evening Mr. Hill called and told me that Mrs. Kathy

would be Bonnie and Jill's Teacher and we were to met

her on Monday after School at 3:30.

When School started Anna had the Twins all the time,

Donald 2 days, and me part of the time, because I was

going back to the house to help Dad get the plans ready

for the Cabins that we were adding.

The Cabin project was to start in the spring but with the

shoting and me not able to help, Mom, the Children, and

Anna gone, Dad decided to wait until later to start working

on the plans.

Since I was doing a lot better, I decided that when School

started it would be a good time to get started on the plans.

On Monday, I went to the Day Care get Miriam for our

meeting with Mrs. Kathy.

When we arrived we had the meeting in Mr. Hill office.

We told her and him that we were taping the meeting so

that we wouldn't forget anything that was said and it would

help us if we remembered something then we could check

the tapes to make sure we hadn't asked that question before.

THE BEGINNING

This Story is Fictional as the Names

They were not blue!!

I thought that was a good sign and the fact that they had

good color and both Babies came in 6 + Pounds apeace.

The Baby Doctors got blood from both and were going to

check them for everything.

They told me later that some of the test had come back

normal but the other ones would take about 6 weeks for

them to come back and that they would let me know what

they had show.

The next day when the Doctor came in to check on me, he

told me that the reason I had feel so dizzy was because I

had losted a baby in December but it hadn't hurt the other

two.

For some reason the third baby had stayed at the embryo

stage, but had fought to live.

I asked what time had it been born, was it a Twin to Grace,

and the Doctor said 11:00, and no it was separate from the

Twins.

While we were talking I could hear babies screaming and

wondered whos baby it was.

The Doctor was leaving when the Nurses came in with the

Twins, I knew then whos Babies had been screaming.

A Nurse stayed with me until Mom came in and stayed to

help me with them.

We each took a Baby and start feeding them, and that is

when they earned the nickname of piglets.

We each looked and touched, we couldn't get enough.

When the Nurses came in to get the Babies, Mom

followed them back to the Nursery.

Mom stayed with me for the rest of that day and came

back every day until they let us go home.

The day we left the hospital, the Doctor told Mom and Dad

that I needed help until I got back on my feet again.

That is when Dad told him that he had hired someone to

stay with me and would be there to help me do what I

needed to do to get back on my feet, also to help with the

Babies.

When it came time for us to leave Dad had to make two

trips down to the Van with my stuff.

The Nurses had just gotten the Babys were ready to go

when he came back the last time, it took three Nurses to

take us down to the Van.

The two Nurses holding Grace and Bradley helped Dad put

them into there Carseat and made sure it was done right.

Because I had been in bed so long it didn't take much for

me to get so tired that by the time I got in the Van, and

Grace and Bradley in there seats, I fell asleep and didn't

wake up until Dad woke me to go into the house.

That is when I saw the Log Cabin, Dad just said welcome

home!

He took me in and sat me down on the couch, then he and

Anna went out and got Grace and Bradley.

When they brought them in, they were screaming again and

wanted to be changed and fed which we did and as fast as

we could too.

After we got them down for a nap, Dad walked with me

through the house tring to show me everything but about

half way through I told him I need to to back and sat down.

Dad took me back to the couch and helped me to get

comfortable so I could get some rest.

When I woke, Mom, Bonnie, Donald, and some of the Family

were there waiting for me to wake up.

They had all been in to see Grace and Bradley and now they

were ready to talk to me.

I saw everyone everyday at the hospital and we talked then,

but we always had a lot to talk about and now was no

different.

We talked about the Babies and what had been going on

around here.

I asked Mom how they had been able to build the house

without me knowing about it, she beamed and told me that

it had been easy, because I was down at the RV Park all day

watching them put the Trees in.

Anna came in then with the Twins and I took Bradley to

feed him, the Family left so that we could have some private

time.

After both Babies were fed, changed, and back in bed, I took

another look around our new home.

By the time I made it back to the couch I was so tired that

I fell asleep trying to put the covers over me.

I woke up two hours later to the sound of screaming Babies,

so by the time Anna brough me Grace I was ready for her.

While we fed the Twins, Anna and I talked so we could get

to know each other better.

We found that everything that I liked to do she didn't and

everything she liked to do I didn't, that is when we became

friends.

We talked about were she had worked before come here

and why she had left and I asked how long could she stay

here, she told me that my Dad had hired her for three

months.

I had a feeling that Anna would be here a lot longer than

that.

Bonnie and Donald came in and waited patiently for us to

quite talking so he could read to us.

When he was through reading it was time for them to get

ready for bed, I know I was.

We put the Twins to bed and helped Bonnie and Donald get

dressed and into bed and kissing them good night I went

back to the couch, Anna went back to the Twins's room and

got ready for bed in there and I went to sleep on the couch.

Milky came in and layed down on the floor beside of the

couch and stayed there all night long.

The next day I worked as hard as I could to got back my

strength.

It would be a long time before I would be able to take care

of all of my Babies.

Bonnie and Donald helped when they were home from

School and Day Care by keeping their rooms clean.

Every night I would sat in the rocking chair holding Grace

and Bradley, Bonnie and Donald would sat on the floor,

Anna would be getting the bottles ready for the next feeding

while Donald would read to us from one of his books.

When it was time to lay the Babies down in their bed, Anna

would come and take Grace and put her to bed and I would

put Bradley to bed.

I wasn't able to get up with both Babies yet, but I was

working on it.

Bonnie had been watching Anna mash the botton so she

could lower the side rails on the Baby Bed it didn't take her

long to get it to work for her.

So a few nights later, it was Bonnie who lowered the bed

rails so Anna and I could put the Twins to Bed.

I started having trouble with my right foot about two weeks

after I came home.

At first it would hurt so bad and it felt like someone had

put and electric wire to it.

It would start in my foot, the current was minor, but then

the right leg started locking up or let go, so I would fall.

It got so bad that I was afraid to carry the Twins.

Mom took me to the Doctor and I told him what was

happening, he would run test after test, but he could find

nothing wrong.

When it got to the point that I could barely walk the Doctor

sent me to Brigs Hospital for test and they too came back

negative.

All the Doctors agreed that there was a problem in the nerve

system, but they just couldn't find it or what was causing it.

When the Twins were about 2 months old I went back to

work because Mom and Dad need the help.

I would only help for about 2 hours each day, I was glad

to be back at work for that time.

Dad had designed me a chair and a Friend of his had built

it, so I could sit in it while I made the Yeast Bread or Rolls.

Normally Anna and the Twins would come and get me, but

today I had decided to walk.

The first person I met was Sue.

We starting talking and I invited her to come with me up

to the house so we could talk and catch up with each other.

We were about half way home when I fell, we were closer to

my house so she went there and told Anna and she called

Dad, who arrived at my side about the same time as Sue.

I was just comming too when they got to me, Dad just

picked me up and put me in the Golf Cart and took me

home!

When the Doctor got there I was feeling better but I couldn't

move my right leg and was surprised to see him, I gave Dad

a sour look.

The Doctor called the ambulance and when they got there, he

had them fix the leg so I couldn't move it because he thought

that the thigh bone ball were it fits in the hip plate, was

pinching the nerve, so he want an X Ray of it.

When they placed me on the backboard, I started having

sharp, shooting pains from the bottom of my foot to the

top of my head on my right side.

By the time we arrive at the hospital I had passed out again

because the pain was so severe.

They took me straight to X Ray and the men reported to my

Doctor and told him what had happen on the way in.

When the X Rays came back normal, the Doctor just shook

his head and throw up his hands, because he could not

find the problem.

He then order a X Ray of my head and that too came back

normal.

When the feeling came back into my leg he let me go home.

When I got home Mom was there with Anna and the

Children I sat on the couch with Bonnie and Donald talking

to them because they were worried about me.

We talked for a long time until it was time for Grace and

Bradley to eat, I was getting hungry too.

Anna helped me to get into their room so we could feed

them while Donald read to us.

We were planning to take Bonnie shopping for School

Clothes that weekend and with Anna's help we would

get the shopping over with.

Dad brough the Van up for us to use to go shopping.

I tried to get him to go with us but he wouldn't have none

of it, he knew what was going to happen, he just laughted

at me.

Anna had heard about the shopping trip last year and she

thought it was so very funny until she saw Bonnie in action.

Bonnie loved to shop and buying School Clothes, she said

it was like Christmas in August.

By the time we got home, Anna just fell into a chair

exhausted, and asked how could one girl do that much

shopping in one day!

All I said was wait until the fashion shop that Bonnie would

put on at the house tomorrow for the Family.

Anna just groaned and went to help Bonnie with her new

clothes.

It was all we could do to get Bonnie in bed that night and

for once I was glad when they were asleep.

The next morning Bonnie had everyone up early to load her

new clothes in the Van and after we feed the Twins, we

went up to the house, where Bonnie put on her new clothes.

After the last change Bonnie went in and showed it to the

Family, but when she came back in she started crying and

told me that Jennifer, a third cousin, said that we need to

move out of the house and into a RV to rent and fired

from my job.

I went into the Dinning Room to talk to Jennifer to see

what was going on.

Jennifer told me that I should move out of that nice house

that Dad had built and let the Family have it to make money

on by renting it out, sence I could no long work I should

just move out and off the Farm.

All I did was cost the Family money and my Brats should

be kept out of sight, because they were an embarrassment,

and Bonnie was a freak and should be kept behind a locked

doors.

I walked to the Kitchen Door and told Anna to take the

Children back to the house and I would be there in a bit.

Dad met me half way back to Jennifer, I just walked

around him.

I stoped in the middle of the room and asked for a show

of hands to see how many wanted me to leave the business

and how many though that my Children were an

embarrassment or freak of nature with me looking at Jennifer.

When Jennifer and her Family raised their hands wanting

me to leave the business but not the part about my

Children.

I asked them how much money did they have in the

business and Jennifer said that she had 25 Thousand in the

business.

I just nodded, and I told her that was an impressive amount.

I asked Jennifer were was she, when the Family need all

the work done on the house, RV Park, and land?

Everyone there knew that I was boiling mad and the calmer

I got the madder I got.

You were on some Island laying on the beach getting a tan

while we did all of the work and for your information I put

in over 350 Thousand Dollars plus I helped build the

business to what it is now and as for my Children, if you

don't like them, then you can just stay on that beach in

the sun!

I got my check book out and wrote her a check for 30

Thousand Dollars and handed it to her and told her to get

out and stay out!!!!

I left and went outside to walk it off, in the yard.

After I had left the rest of the Family had told Jennifer

that she should be ashamed of herself and that she

shouldn't have said that about the Children.

Dad gave me time to cool off before he came out to talk

to me.

When Dad came out he sat down beside me and said that

Jennifer had left and told me what the Family had said to

Jennifer.

You see Mom and Dad gave me an allowance when I was a

little girl, and I would save it until I had about 1 Thousand

Dollars then I would pick out a Stock to buy and Dad would

buy it for me.

I would watch it grow and then I would have Dad sell it

when it doubled.

After the second time of selling at a profit, then Dad took

to buying the same Stocks or Shares.

Then one day I got lucky and bought 300 Shares of a

Growing Company and when I sold the Shares I had made

3 Millions Dollars on the sell.

By the time I was 18, I was worth about 8 Million Dollars

and Dad was worth about 16 Million.

So you see I didn't have to work if I didn't want too, but I

wanted to work at something I liked, which was the house

and RV Park.

When it was just me I would take just enough money to pay

for my Health and Auto Insurance and I would work for my

other living expenses.

When Wayne and I got together, I had told him about the

money and he told me not to use it, that he would buy

what we needed.

So it had been setting in the bank growing all that time,

until we found the Farm and bought it.

Dad took me home, Bonnie met us at the door still crying,

I took her in my arms and hugged her.

We both cried and then we talked about what Jennifer has

said and how to deal with it, which was hard to do.

I let her talk it out and between the two of us, which was

hard to do, we decussed weather or not to walk away or

saying something to the person being mean and saying

bad things to her.

Bonnie said that it was hard for her listening to Jennifer

being so mean because she is Family, she said strangers

it was as hard because it doesn't matter what they say.

I had always told Bonnie that she was beautiful and smart

and that their would always be people who were mean and

that it was better to walk away saying "have a beautiful day".

Miriam and Jill came over and the girls went off to talk and

play.

Miriam talked and played with Donald and when Grace and

Bradley woke up we feed them while Donald read to us.

Donald was reading on the third grade level so Miriam and I

decussed what to do for him.

At the Day Care Miriam had him in her room and was

teaching him simple math and working on his writing.

Donald's writing needed a lot of work, but for his age I

though it was beautiful, what can I say, every thing he

does is beautiful.

Miriam and I had been talking about Flowers, Trees,

Children, Games, and what had been going on sence the

last time we had talked, which was almost everyday!!!

Miriam and Jill had been riding horses together and they

found that it had helped Jill.

Jill was about 2 years old when she last walk and Miriam

had excerised.

Jill's Doctors had told Miriam that riding horses would help

to get her walking again.

It worked too, she now walks using the wheelchair as a

walker and is quite pleased with herself.

It took a lot of hard work and pain, excerising the leg and

back muscles, it had to be done before she could ride.

At first Jill could ride only 10 minutes and then she would

be in so much pain that Miriam almost stoped the riding,

that is until she noticed that Jill had more movement in her

legs.

To make sure Jill hadn't hurt the muscles, Miriam had to

take Jill to the Doctor every Friday.

When Jill was up to 50 minutes of riding time and some

pain, she was able to walk short distants but she still had

to use the wheelchair to go shopping, because she couldn't

walk or stand for long periods.

With all of the added worry, Miriam was always so tired, that

when she would come over she would fall asleep while we

were talking.

When she would go to sleep I would just let her sleep on

the couch, because I was afraid that Miriam would fall

asleep driving home.

Anna and I would feed and change Grace and Bradley while

Donald read to us, and Bonnie and Jill would be in the

bedroom playing or getting ready for bed or sometime they

would come in with us and listen to the story.

Normally when everyone was in bed sound asleep I would

go to bed and wouldn't get up till morning, but not that

night.

That night I kept hearing noises and would go looking to

see what it was, but the third time it happen, I didn't turn

the lights on.

The noise had been loud enough to wake Anna too, so

when she came out to see what was going on, I told her

not to turn the lights on and handed her the phone.

We walked room to room checking the windows, when we

got to Donald's room we heard the noise again, except it

was louder and we could tell it was coming from there.

We pushed the door open slowly and peeped around it and

saw the outline of someone outside at the window.

I pushed Anna back and told her watch while I went in and

got Donald and brough him back to her.

I stayed close to the walls and moved slowly so the person

couldn't see what I was doing.

Donald didn't use a night light so that made it easier for me

to get him and leave the room without the man seeing me.

I took him to Anna's room and put him in her bed.

We went out and called the police and told them what was

happening, they told us that it would be at least 30 minutes

before they could get there and for us to leave and go

somewhere safe until they could get there.

When I told them that I had 2 Children age 8 and 1 of

them in a wheelchair, 1 Child age 3, and 2 Children age 6

months, plus 3 adult Ladies and the fact the person was

between us and freedom.

They then asked if I had a basement with a door that could

be locked from the other side, I said yes but I couldn't keep

it locked as the lock was on the wrong side.

I told them that we would head for the woods out the

basement door and they could call me on my cell phone

when they cought the person.

I went in and woke Miriam up and told her what was going

on and what we were going to do.

Anna was waking Donald and putting his shoes on, Miriam

and I woke the girls and put their shoes on as well.

Miriam grabed three blankets and then took Donald, Bonnie,

and Jill down to the basement to wait for Anna, the Twins,

and me.

After we got the Twins, I walked to Donald's bedroom door

to check on the person and I found that he was just about

ready to take the window out.

Anna had fixed a dapperbag with extra clothes, bottles, and

blankets for the babies

When we got down to them I told Bonnie to hold Donald's

hand and not to talk and were we were going.

Once we were outside, I fixed the basement door so it

couldn't be opened from the inside.

Miriam was in front with Bonnie and Donald following and

Anna with Bradley in front of Me and Grace.

Once we got out of the yard, we were in a shadow that

went all the way to the woods.

When we got in the woods, Miriam took them to a group of

trees which they got behind, while I watched the house to

make sure the person had not followed us.

Miriam walked back to me and told me that they had

cleaned a good size spot off and put the blankets down for

them to sleep on.

We stood there for a very long time when we saw the blue

light coming up the driveway.

Then we heard a lot of noise and then a lot of flashing lighs

coming from the back of the house.

I saw a much slower pair of headlights coming up the

driveway and relized that is was Dad coming up the

driveway.

I called him hoping that he had his phone with him.

When he answered the phone, I told him what had happen

and were we were, he stoped before he got to the house.

When he saw the police officers coming out of the house

he went up and talked to them.

Dad called me back and said he was coming to get us,

because it would be a long time before we could go

home.

We met Dad about half way across the field.

Anna, the Twins, Bonnie, Jill, and Donald got in the Golf

Cart and he took them back to the main house and droped

them off and came back and got Miriam and me.

When we got there Mom was there fixing the Children

Breakfast even though it was only 5:00 in the morning.

All Miriam and I wanted was Coffee, because we knew

that it was going to be a long day!!!

Miriam took our Cups of Coffee outside and sit on the

porch talking when Mom showed the police officers out to

us.

The Police officers asked us a lot of questions about the

person that had broken into the house and we had no

answers for them as we didn't see the person.

They wanted to talk to Anna, so she helped Mom bring out

the Cups and a Pot of Coffee.

They asked her the same questions they had asked us.

They wanted us to go back to the house and walk them

through the story again.

I went and got the Golf Cart Keys from Dad and the three

of us went back up to the house and we told our story again,

showing them what we did while we were in the house.

When we arrived back at the house the Police officers met

us at the door and we showed them were we were when we

first heard noise.

I told them that I had been in my bed, as well as Anna, Grace,

and Bradley, Miriam had been on the couch, and Donald was

in his bed.

As we were talking we showed them the bed rooms.

Then I told them what Anna and I had done to find the

noise.

They stoped us at Donald's door and wouldn't let us go any

futher.

The three of us told our storys up until the time when they

met us up at the main house.

While we were talking, one of the Police Officers got a

phone call, and when he came back he ask us if we knew

a Tom Walker?

I said no as did Anna and Miriam.

They told us we could not stay in the house until they were

done which would be about 3 to 5 days.

We went into each of the bed rooms getting enough clothes,

baby beds, and books for Donald, to last that long.

When we walked back outside and loaded the Golf Cart, I

called up to the house and talked to Linda and asked her if

she knew a Tom Walker, she did!

The man who had raped her when she had been a teenager.

I told Linda that is the man who had broken into the house

and asked if it was alright if I told the Police Officers who he

was, she said yes!!

I went back into my house and told them who Tom Walker

was and they wanted to talk to Linda up at the main house.

We went back up to the main house for more Coffee and to

talk to Mom, who would be with Linda when she talked with

the Police Officers.

About three hours later the Police officers came to talk to

Linda, and Mom went with them, Miriam took over Mom's

job and I took over Lindas.

They talked to Linda for about 2 hours and when they came

out Mom and Linda was as white as a sheet.

Mom told Linda to go out and sit on the porch and she

would be there just as soon as she got them some Coffee

and Cake.

They stayed out there for a long time and just talked until

they felt better.

When they came back in they were still shaky but looked

better!!

After making sure they were alright, we left to find Dad to

get the Keys to the RV we would be staying in until the

Police were done with the house.

Miriam and I went down to the RV Park Office and turned

the power on for the RV we would be using and started

moving in.

We went in and turned the Air Conditioner on high so it

would cool off.

When we had the baby beds set up and ready for them, we

went back up and got Anna and the Twins, and Donald.

Miriam was taking Bonnie with her and Jill, for the weekend

and would ride the bus home on Monday evening.

All weekend and the week that followed, the Police came in

and out to either talk to me, or Linda, or just going up to

the house to do some more work.

By the next Saturday they were done and came and told me

that we could move back in, but the house need some work

done to the back of the house.

Anna stayed with The Twins, Donald, and Bonnie while I

went up to the house to see what they were talking about.

When I got to the back of the house I knew what they were

talking about!

That part of the house need more than some work it need

a lot of work because of all of the bullet holes, missing

windows, and ceiling, walls, and floor.

We couldn't move back in until that was fixed.

I called Danny and asked him to come over and look at

the house to see when he could get a crew over to work

on it so we could move back in.

He was able to come over that evening.

When Danny came in and saw the damage, his eyes got

as big as saucers!!

What in the world happen here, Danny asked?

I told him about the break in and the shoting, I didn't know

at the time that the man had died when he fell through the

window to the ground two storys below.

Danny asked if me and the Children were OK, and I told him

that the Children sept through everthing except the walk

across field.

We talked for a while and he told me how his Family was,

what they had been working on, about the new equipment

that they had gotten.

When we were walking back outside he told me that he

would have a crew here Monday morning to start the repare

work and it would take about week to 2 weeks depending on

how much internal damage was done, also he wanted to check

the electric wiring.

Early Monday morning Danny and his crew show up to

work in the house and outside checking and repairing

holes in the Logs.

They had to move everything out of the way and went to

store them in the store room and that is when they found

that there was a lot of damage in there as well.

He had the men remove everything out of there and put it

in the living room.

I went up to the house and took Danny and his men lunch

and drinks.

I sat the picknick table up and put the tablecloth on it then

sat the food and drinks on it.

Danny and his men came out and saw what I was doing

and thanked me while they got what they wanted.

He told me that I needed to see what they had found.

We went in and he show me all of the damage that they

had done.

They were going to have to rebuild that room with some

minor work to be done in the store room and both rooms

had to be rewired plus two light fixtures.

Before the work started Danny had taken pictures of the

damages and when they had empty the store room he had

taken pictures in there as well.

After the lunchbreak Danny left to get a dumpster to put all

of the debris in.

When the men went back to work and I cleaned the mess up

and packed the left overs and put the table and tablecloth

up, I went back down to the RV.

I was going back to work in November and I wanted the

house done.

Because of the Twins I was only working day time except

on Holidays when I would work evenings.

By the first of November, Danny had the house done and

we were moving back in.

It felt so good to be back home with lots of room to move

around in and with the Twins crawling all over the place we

had to put up gates to keep them in one room.

Donald's 4 Birthday was coming up, I had no idea what to

get him.

What Donald wanted was Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's

Stone, the Book and Movie,and a Big Bicycle.

Donald had picked out a 14 inch Batman Bicycle with

training wheels on our last trip to Wal - Mart, which Anna

had gone back and picked up the next day.

Mom and Dad had him a Computer with Spelling Word games,

Fred and Ontonette had gotten him Board Games plus Math

Games for the Computer, Linda had him Clothes and Science

Books about the Stars, and more than likely I would get him

Harry Potter Book and Movie.

All of Donald's friends had been invited to the party and as

always it would be in the Dinning Room at the house after

the Breakfast Crowded left.

We enjoyed decorating for all partys and we tried to never

use the same scene unless it is asked for.

I went down to the storage room in the basement to go

through all of the decorations to see what we had.

You see we were also known for our partys and decorations

sence we did a lot of different partys.

This year Donald wanted a Super Hero Man Day Birthday Party,

all the Party Hats had to have a different Super Hero on it as

did the Plates which Ontonette, Linda, and I had painted on

Stoneware Plates for the Party, which his Guest would take

home as a party favor.

On Thanksgiving Morning I made Donald his Birthday

Breakfast of Blueberry Pancakes, Bacon, and Fresh Orange

Juice and went to get him up.

Normally he would beat up so after I checked the time I

knew something was wrong and boy was it!!!

When I shook him I noticed that he had red spots on his

face.

Donald had Chicken Poxs!!

After giving him something for the tempature, I started

calling all of his Guest and letting them know that he had

Chicken Poxs.

All 15 Children who had been invited had the Chicken Poxs,

so I called Miriam to see how many Children in her Day Care

had them.

Miriam told me that out of 75 Children, 30 had been out

the week before Thanksgiving, so I told her that 15 more

had gotten the Chicken Poxs.

After told me that she would be up to help with the

Thanksgiving Crowd I hung up and called Mom and told

her about Donald.

I went in to check on the Twins and found that they too

had the Chicken Pox.

Can this day get any worse?

I gress it can because when I went to check on Bonnie I

found Anna in with Bonnie and they both had them too!!!

There is no way I could go to work with the whole house

sick so I called Mom back and told her about the Twins,

Anna, and Bonnie have the Chicken Poxs.

It was long after that Miriam called me and told me that

Jill had the Chicken Poxs and couldn't come to work.

I called the Doctor and got him to call in something for

everyone and he had the Drug Store to deliver it all to me.

I gave all the Children a bath in Oatmeal and then put

Calamine Lotion on them, then it was Anna turn.

I turned on the Air Conditioner to keep it cool to help

prevent the scratching.

I moved Bonnie and Donald into my bed so I could keep

watch on them and sence Anna's bed was in with the Twins,

she watch them.

By the next day Anna's temperature had gone up to almost

103.9 and the Chicken Poxs had gotten so bad that you

couldn't touch her except with a needle point without touching

a Pox.

The Doctor called me to find out how everyone was doing, I

told him that the Children were doing better but Anna wasn't,

that her temperature was going up and that she was in a lot

of pain.

He told me to put Anna in the bath tub with the Oatmeal

and keep her there until he arrived.

By the time he arrived Anna's temperature had gone up to

104 and the Ambulance was on it's way.

I had also called Mom and told her what was happening and

asked that she go with Anna to the hospital because I didn't

want her to be alone.

After the Doctor checked her out, he was in agreement

with me.

He to was afraid that the Chicken Poxs had affected her

Liver and Kidneys.

He helped me get her out of the tub and dry her off so we

could put her in a white cotton nightgown for the ride to the

hospital.

After the Ambulance left with Anna, Mom, and the Doctor,

I went in to check on the Children to see if they need some

Juice or another bath.

All were asleep except Bonnie, who ask what was going on

and I told her that the Chicken Poxs had made Anna very

sick and she needed to be in the hospital to make sure that

she would be alright.

By the next day everyone was feeling a bit better so I

made sure that everyone drink their Juices, took their baths,

and ate when they were able too.

Mom called me from the hospital and told me the test on

Anna's Liver and Kidneys had come back negative, the Chicken

Poxs had not hurt her Liver and Kidneys.

I was giving baths about every 3 to 4 hours as they needed

it.

That was the longest 72 hours I have ever spent, because the

Children had felt so bad and all I could do was give them

baths and put Calamine Lotion on them.

Dad would come and bring me Juices and other thing that

I would need, encluding Thanksgiving Dinner.

It took him five trips from the Golf Cart to my Kitchen to

bring in all of the Food.

The Food smelled so good that it made me hungry, because

all I had had during that time was some Crackers and Juice,

so I made me Turkey Breast and Tomato Sandwich.

Then it was time to give everyone their baths and put on the

Calamine Lotion.

When everyone's temperature broke, they started eating again

so I feed the Twins some of the Turkey and Creamed Sweet

Potatoes and fixed Sliced Turkey and Sweet Potatoes for

Bonnie, and Donald.

Mom called me every day from the hospital and to keep

us up on how Anna was doing.

Anna's temperature was coming down but slowly, slower

than they liked, but it was coming down.

It was 2 days after the Children's temperature had gone back

to normal that Anna's broke.

She was feeling better and was drinking and eating a little

and sleep a lot.

So by the time the hospital let Anna come home, the

Children's Chicken Poxs were almost gone, and all I had to

do was put Calamine Lotion on the few spots that was left.

When Mom told me that Anna was coming home, I moved

the Twins into my room so that Anna could get some rest.

We all were very glad to see Anna home, the Children

wanted to stay and talk, but Anna was very tired and weak

from the ride home and all she wanted to do was sleep.  

Donald want to wait to have his Birthday Party when Anna

was able to attend.

So we set the date for a week later, December 10, I got

started sending out invitations to all of Donald's Friends

and our Family.

The Family won't be able to come in until the week before

Christmas and that was OK with Donald, because he knew

that when the Family came in there would be another party

then.

You know I really love my Family, they know how to make

everyone happy and more importantly the Children.

I think that the reason for that is that they are still Children

at heart, even when they are having a bad year, come

Christmas everyone turns into Children with the glow of

Children.

This year two of my Aunts and Uncles were layed off and

now they were going to stay here and work at the house.

Alice and Ben were routers for a big trucking company.

Their Company was having to cut back because of the

increase of fuel prices.

This kind of cost was hurting a lot of Companys and their

workers.

We at the house are tring to go green by adding Motor

Scooter, for the Guests to rent so they can go exploring

the country side.

We also have Beautiful Mountain Parks that our Guests like

to visit and are easy to get to with the Scooters.

This is to be Alice's Job, she will be the person to see about

renting the Scooters and get directions and maps of the area.

Ben's hobby was working on small Motor Cycles and now

his job will be to keep the Scooters in good running order.

Betty and Frank worked at a Company who produced and

installed Solar Panels for Homes and Companys.

It will be there job to help the house go more green than

we already are and maintain it.

Right now, we are looking at Solar Panels, Cow Dun Power,

and maybe Windmill Power, because here in the Winter the

wind can really blow, but does it blow enough, that is just

some of the questions we will be asking Betty and Frank.

The Family Lots now have two more RV's to move in as

soon as Danny have them ready.

As you can see we have a lot going on, starting after the

first of the year, now the Aunts and Uncles are taking the

time to get their lots and homes ready and taking a break

to enjoy the Holiday Season.

Once we have our new green plans up and running, the

Aunts and Uncles will also be working for our Neighbors

who wants to go green also.

With Donald's Birthday Party so close we had a lot of work

to do to get ready, we already had the Plates, Glasses, and

Silver Ware ready, we had to get the Small Luncheon, Cake,

Homemade Ice Cream, and Drinks ready.

CHAPTER 8

Dad had been down at Joes, soon to be Toms, when he

ran into Wayne.

They talked for a long while, when Wayne asked Dad if he

could come and see me, as in ask me out on a date.

We are still married and Dad knew that I still loved Wayne.

Wayne had told Dad that he had not had a drink sence

Bonnie had gotten so sick by the bug bite, which had

happened almost 2 year ago.

Dad told him to call me, and it was alright with him as long

as he didn't hurt me again.

When Dad got home and told me about the meeting with

Wayne and what Wayne wanted to do, I was scared, happy,

and excited.

Fred and Ontonette came in the first week of April and

Danny had just gotten their place done so it was ready for

them to move in.

Mom, Bonnie, and I went down to help them take their

thing out of the old RV and move it in the new one because

Dad had bought their old RV to set up in the Park to be used

by us or rented out.

Sue came back the second week of April with her Daughter

Sally, who wanted have her Wedding here.

When Wayne called I was in a meeting with Sue and Sally,

along with the Staff that would be working with them to help

Sally to have a Beautiful Wedding.

I had to leave the meeting to take the call and when he

asked me out for the next evening I just said yes!

Wayne also wanted to know if he could come and see

Bonnie for her Birthday and I said he could, and that it would

be the next weekend on Saturday, but he wanted to come

on Friday evening.

When I went back into the meeting everyone there knew

what was going on, the Staff had told Sue and Sally what

the call was about, so they just asked me what did I say,

and I told them I had said yes for the next day's date!

After the meeting was over I asked Sue if we could talk.

Sue told me that she had met with her husband after leaving

here and they talked a lot about their lives together and found

that he had not been happy for a long time, he just hadn't

known how to tell her, so they decided to get a divorce.

Then I asked her, is he coming to the Wedding, and how

was she going to feel seeing him there with his new lady

friend?

Sue told me that they would be staying in the RV Park and

she wanted us to seat them on the other end of the first row.

Breakfast might be a problem because there usually weren't

that many people there then, if needed we would serve Sue

in her room or on the porch, if he was going to be there.

When Sue started to leave, she stoped and looked at me

and told me that the other woman had been her best friend!

I had no idea as to what to say, it just blew my mind that a

trusted friend would do something like that!

I went to Mom and told her what Sue had told me, while I

was telling Mom another though hit me, what about the

Bride's Party.

Mom had seen this out in the World, but for us it had only

happen on TV.

I left it up to Mom and Linda to see that they did not cross

paths too often.

The next morning Mom had another talk with Sue and found

out about the Bride's Party and was told that the lady friend

would be there but she wouldn't be staying long.

We had a whole month to get ready for the Wedding and

get the Flowers and designs done, so the Staff worked hard

to make this a beautiful Wedding for Sally.

The Wedding was the first of June and the Guests would

arrive the week before, the Groom and most of the Wedding

Guests would be staying in the RV Park and Sue and Sally,

along with the Bride's Maids would be staying at the house.

When Wayne came to pick me up that evening, Mom was

there, because she was going to watch Bonnie and Donald

for me and to tell me how he was dressed, because he

hadn't told me were we were going.

When she told me that he was dressed very nice and that I

had picked the right outfit, I felt better.

When I came in, Bonnie and Donald was sitting on his lap

and Donald was reading to them, I wanted to take pictures

but Mom had already taken the picture.

After Donald was done reading, we told them goodby and we

would see them when we got back.

Wayne took me to dinner and dancing and we had great fun,

but you could tell we were nervous.

When he took me home at the end of the date, he asked

me for another date the next weekend, on Saturday at 11:00

and I said yes but I would have to back by 5:00 to help with

the Supper Crowd.

When he came in to say goodnite to Bonnie and Donald, they

grabed him and told him good nite and they loved him which

made it hard for him to leave them.

We talked about that and he told me that he was going to

do his best never to let us or himself down again and then

he kissed me goodby and promised to see me the next

Saturday.

Joe came up to make deliverys and he wanted to know what

I had done to Wayne and that whatever had happen, it had

made a big difference in Wayne, because he had not stoped

smiling.

We went out like that until just before the Wedding.

I would be so busy helping with the Wedding that late at

night he would call and we would talk until I would get so

sleep that he would wish me a good night and hang up, the

kind of good night that leaves a smile on your face.

The Bride and Groom would have their Partys in the Study,

because it was going to be about 10 people at each and the

Bride and Groom were leaving after the Reception.

Wayne and I dated when we could get away together, even

if it was just for an hour or two, until one night he spent

the night with me and left early before Bonnie and Donald

woke up.

Sometimes he would come over and we would walk around

the Farm and sometimes I would tell him about the Fruit

Trees I wanted to plant down at the RV Park and in the

Field above the RV Park and sometimes he would tell me

about how hard it had been for him when he quite drinking.

Wayne also told me that sometime he would get jealous

because of the money I had and he knew that he would

never be able to make that kind of money.

He also knew that the money wasn't important to me,

because I didn't go and get it durning the hard times, we

would just work harder for what we needed.

He wouldn't tell me all of it but the few thing he would tell

me, lead me to believe that he had, had a very hard time.

He told me one time that he had done it for himself, because

after Bonnie got sick because of the bug bite, he decided

that if he wanted to be there for us, then he would have

to quite drinking.

He wanted me to understand that he hadn't quite drinking

for us, he had quite drinking for himself.

We were falling in love again and growing closer than we

had before, which felt like I could walk on air.

This time it wasn't just me who loved, but this time he really

loved me, the way a man is suppose to love a woman who

you plan to marry.

Before he would tell me he loved me, but I think he liked me

alot and we were best friends, I guess he thought that was

love.

But this time, everyone saw the difference and I knew that

it would be very different.

I told Mom and Dad that Wayne and I were falling in love,

they were OK with it as long as it didn't hurt me or the

Children.

It came as no surprise when we told Mom and Dad that we

were planing to say our Vows again.

They were so happy for us, you see Mom hadn't seen

Wayne much before, but when she saw Wayne she knew

that he was really happy and in Love with me.

She told me latter that she was afraid that it would be a

repete of before, but after seeing and talking to him, she

relized that his love for me came pouring out from his eyes,

mouth, and body.

His eyes followed you around the room with the love

pouring out for all to see.

So with their blessing, we set the date for the weekend

before his Birthday, which was in September.

We saw each other as often as we could, we would go out as

a couple and as a family and when we couldn't we would talk

on the phone, which made me happy that he really did mean

what he said.

Wayne was now a patience person, Bonnie and Donald

could be a handful sometime, but Wayne got them both

talking and laughing, he turned the evening around with

patience and a firm tone of voice.

You see, even though they loved Wayne they still had to

test him to see what he would let them do, and he had to

show them that he would be loving and firm.

Watching them together made me so happy, because I

knew Wayne could be like this and now he know it too so

that makes him more patience, more loving, and more free

to be a Father.

I was so happy that I felt that I could walk on clouds, but

Bonnie and Donald would talk about the Family outings for

days afterwards, they had enjoyed them so much.

So we made plans to stay at home and have a Barbecue

that weekend, so Bonnie and Donald were getting all of

their balls and outside toys out, for us to play with.

All day they would come in wanting me to call Wayne and

find out why he wasn't there yet, so after their third trip in I

called Paul, but he wasn't in.

Bonnie and Donald were getting hyper waiting on Wayne to

get there so they could play before we eat, but it wasn't to

be.

When he didn't come, I again call Paul but he still wasn't in

and I figured that something had come up and he would

call me to let us know why he hadn't come.

It was the weekend before we were to say our Vows,

Wayne had a accident with the new tractor, the axle had

broken and flipped over.

Paul, his boss came late that night and told me what had

happen and that he had been with Wayne when the accident

happen.

He told me that Wayne had told him to tell me, "that he

loved me, Bonnie and Donald and that he was sorry but he

wouldn't be around for Grace to be born," while they were

waiting for the ambulance.

I was crying so hard that Paul called Mom and Dad and told

them what had happen.

They came down to the Apartment to stay with me,

because they didn't want me to be alone.

So it was a good thing that Bonnie and Donald were asleep,

because I don't think I could have been able to deal with

their heartbreak as well.

After I thanked Paul for coming over to tell me himself.

You could tell that it hurt him to have to tell me about the

accident, but I also got the feeling that he hadn't told me

everthing, I am not sure that I want to know that part.

I had no idea what Paul was talking about when he told me

about Grace, I didn't even know that I was going to have a

baby.

We didn't get much sleep that night, because I did a lot of

crying and sometimes I would just talk.

We talked about the past and how Wayne was then, the fun

time we had, the happiness I felt then when I found I was

going to have Bonnie, and the present, the differance that

time had made in Wayne, his happiness that you could tell

he felt.

I had been quiet for a while when I turned to them asked

if we could bury Wayne on the Farm in his favorite place

out in the field above the RV Park were he would be

surround by the Fruit Trees.

They said yes, so Dad called Danny and had him come in

and fix the area that I wanted.

Dad had also called the Family and told them what had

happen, so the Family were all coming in!

You see Wayne had picked the place himself, on our many

walks around the Farm, so I knew were he wanted to be.

I wanted him close so we could go and be with him and talk

to him, and so we would still be together.

On the day of the Funeral Bob had put a Black Ribbon on

all of the Buildings, but on the House he had went around

the whole house with bows on all of the porch posts.

I knew it would be very hard for Bonnie and me to say

goodby, so we took our time and we did a lot of talking and

I explained that Wayne would always be with us in our hearts

and he would be watching over us!

I also told Bonnie that if she needed to talk to her Daddy

that all she had to do was look up at the sky and tell him

everything, and that her Daddy would alway hear her.

When Bonnie felt better, we walked back to the house, all of

our Friends and Family were at the house waiting for us.

Bonnie didn't feel like company so she went to her room, Jill

and I went down to check on her.

Bonnie was just laying there staring at nothing, I asked if

she wanted to talk and if she wanted a little company, when

she saw Jill, she said yes.

I would go in every little bit to check on her and found that

Jill was telling Bonnie about losing her Daddy.

I don't know who cryed more Jill or Bonnie, but they seamed

to be working it out or at least I hope so.

Our Guests were a great group of people and were being

very respectful toward us.

Mom and Dad hadn't heard Paul tell me about Grace or they

would have know what was happening when I passed out

that day.

So they just put it down to the Funeral, but when it happened

a third time, Mom just put me in the Van and took me to the

Doctor.

He ran some test so when he came back in and told us that

I was going to have a Baby, and of course I passed out

again!!

The Doctor was worried about me and the Baby, because he

could tell that I wasn't handling Wayne's death very well.

When he found out what we had planed to do the weekend

after his Death, he understood why I was having such a hard

time trying to come to terms with his death.

He told Mom that I needed to get away for awhile to work

it out I would lose the Baby and then I would be very sick!!

He also suggested that I take Bonnie with me so we could

work it out together.

So when we got home she put me to bed and told me to stay

there and only get up to go to the bathroom, she sent Dad

down with me some lunch and to talk, he told me that he was

sending us to a place out west, to a working Ranch, that

belonged to a Friend of his.

I really didn't want to go and said so very clearly, but Dad

said I would be going and that I wouldn't be working at the

Ranch, just taking it easy and being with Bonnie because she

needed this time too.

We were to leave that Friday and fly out to the airport were

we were to be met and taken to the Ranch.

I would get so tired when they told me about the plans and

all of the traveling we would have to do.

I wanted to stay closer to home, but they just said that we

need to be around different people,scenery, and maybe I

would learn what I would need to know about a working

Ranch sence I wanted to raise our own Cows in the future.

So Dad took us to the airport and stayed with us until we

got on the plane and even then he stayed until he was sure

that we hadn't gotten off the plane, but had left on the

plane.

He knew that if he had left before the plane, we would have

gone somewhere else closer to home.

I had wanted to take Donald with us, but Mom and Dad

wouldn't let me, so it was a very tearful parting.

It was so very hard leaving Donald behind, because I had

never been without him sence he was born, but like Dad

said Bonnie and I needed this time together so we could

talk and try to come to terms with Wayne's passing.

They had made it sound so easy to work all of our feelings

out in a week, but I knew different.

It was going to be the hardest thing that I had ever had to

do!!!

I had all of these things running around in my head, while

we were flying to our destination.

When we landed at the airport we were to be picked up, but

no one was there to meet us, and no one came in the hours

that followed.

I called the Ranch and was told that there was in fact

someone there and that I was to find him and was hung

up on!!

I found that the people at the Ranch were very rude and

very unpleasant.

I don't see how they could be in a business that deals with

people, they don't do it very well.

Bonnie and I sat there and waited for four hours, so long

in fact that a Police Officer came and asked us why we

hadn't left yet.

I told him that we were waiting for our ride which hadn't

arrived yet.

The Officer then called the Ranch to find out why they

hadn't picked us up yet and was told that they were sending

someone to pick us up.

While the Officer was talking to them I walked over and

asked to speak to them again.

I told them don't brother, because we had waited for 4

hours, had been treated very rudely when I had called

earlier, and for them to send Dad's money back to him.

Bonnie and I gathered up our things, walked outside to

get a cab so we could go to the hotel that the nice Police

Officer had told us about, were we could stay for the week.

When we checked into the hotel and went up to our room,

I called Dad to let them know we were OK and where we

were.

Dad was very upset that his Friend had treated us like that,

I told him that I had told his Friend to send him his money

back.

Dad was very worried about us, and I just told him that the

hotel was just as good a place to relax and talk.

After we said our goodbys, Bonnie and I went down and ate

Supper, and to walk around a little so we would be tired

enough to go to bed and sleep when we went back to our

room.

But when Bonnie woke up several time, because it was a

strange place and she said that her Dad was calling her, I

knew that it hadn't worked.

This time was very hard on Bonnie, because she wanted to

be with her Daddy.

I explained to her that it was OK for her to miss her Daddy

and he would understand why she was here.

She would cry and beg to go home, so it took me a long

time to calm her down.

She finely crawled into my bed and went to sleep, that is

where she stayed until late the next morning.

We both slept in that morning and by the time we woke up,

got dressed we were late for Breakfast.

The Staff were very helpful when I explained why we were

so late.

So they found us some Fresh Berries and Pancakes for our

Breakfast.

Bonnie thanked them and told them that it was as good as

my Breakfast, but Supper hadn't been that good.

I suggested we take a walk down the street and look for a

place to eat lunch, so that is what we did.

We found a shop that Bonnie liked so we decided to do

some shopping until it was time for lunch.

Bonnie and I found the we didn't like the city, it was to

noisey for us and crowded, but we made the best of it.

We did a lot of walking, talking, and looking at all of the

building, I think that most of them were made of glass.

On one of our many walks we found a park for Bonnie to

play in but it didn't have trees, come to thing of it, the trees

that we did see were small trees.

The streets we were on, had trees lining them which provided

us with some shade because it was so hot, for our walks.

One day we found some people that were sing at one

corner, Bonnie being a music lover liked that.

The music had people dancing on the sidewalk, but it wasn't

long before the Police came and told us to move on.

One of the Officers, was the one that we had met at the

airport, Bonnie went to him and ask why they couldn't

dance there.

He told her that it would be dangerous, because someone

could get hit by a car and they were making it hard for

people to get into the shops.

Bonnie could understand this because there were so many

cars going up and down the street and people trying to walk

on the sidewalk.

I thanked him for suggesting the hotel, because it was a

good one.

After saying our goodbys to the Police Officer, we made our

way down the street looking for another shop that the Staff

at the hotel had told us about.

This shop had everything, from clothes to toys, every kind

of sweets you could think of.

We walked all around the shop looking at all they had, I can

tell you that the only thing we got was some Chocolate

Cookies and Candy.

We did find things that we enjoyed very much but we were

very glad when the week was over and it was time to go

home!!

Our plane was on time so we didn't have to wait very long

and sence we were in first class the food was better this time.

Bonnie made friends with all the people in there, she even

met the pilot, who took her on a ture of the airplane.

So when we landed, we were very happy to see Dad waiting

on us and Bonnie had a lot to tell him about our trip while he

would took us home.

After Bonnie had made her rounds and told everyone all we

had done and handed out presents, she was ready for bed.

Donald was so glad to see us and when I gave him his

special gift he to was ready for bed.

After everyone was asleep Dad told me that his Friend had

called him and apologized for their treatment of us.

What he didn't tell me, was that his friend's Daughter - In -

Law had not want a Child on the place with Downs.

It was no surprise when Mom and Dad told me that they

wouldn't let me come back full time until after the Baby

was born.

I wanted to get some paper work done and spend time with

Bonnie and Donald, they found that they liked me being

around more, but I didn't like being so still so I cleaned the

Apartment and then the Basement Kitchen.

Then one day when I had the Apartment and Basement

Kitchen so clean it would shine, I decided that I needed to

do something else, so I went outside to find Bob to see

what he was up to.

I wanted to decuss the Fruit Trees with him.

When I found him and his crew, they were working on new

Tulip and Iris beds.

When I explained what that I wanted to plant Fruit Trees

around the RV Park and in the field above it where Wayne

was buried and I wanted them to be Dwarf Apple, Peach,

Pear, and Full Size Black Cherry Trees.

He liked the idea so we talked about when we could plant

them.

When Bob told me we could plant the Fruit Trees now and

that we could put in three rows at the RV Park.

You see, when Bob had owned the place that had been his

idea too.

We went down and measured out the area between the Road

and the first roll of RVs.

We found that we could put in 250 Fruit Trees in that area

alone.

Sence the Red and Yellow Delicious Apple Trees have to be

planted side by side, we decided that the first 9 Dwarf Apple

Trees would be first, then the Peach Trees, and the Pear Trees

until that site was done.

The next 4 rows we could plant 100 Fruit Trees each and

the next 3 rows would 76 Trees and the rest of the rows

would only have 50 Fruit Trees each.

Once we knew how many Trees we would need we went

into Plant & Tree Company to see how many they had in

stock, and if they had to order them how long it would take.

When we left, we had 8 Trees in the bed of the Truck and

15 Trees in the Trailor, and the Company were going to

deliver the rest of the 200 Fruit Trees that they had in stock.

When we got back to the RV Park, Bob's crew had marked

each Tree site so all they had to do was dig the hole and

plant the Tree, also there was a Chair waiting for me.

This was a very loud statement, No You May Not Help Dig

The Holes, you can watch.

It wasn't long before I found that I wasn't the only one

watching, the RV Guests were coming over and watching

and talking, so it turned into a party like scene.

The crew were digging 8 holes at a time so it didn't take

them long to put in the 23 Trees that we had brought back.

The crew went back to the Flower Beds to get that done so

that they could start on the other Fruit Trees when they were

delivered the next day.

By the time the 200 Fruit Trees were planted, the crew had

each dug 25 holes apeace.

The Plant & Tree Company would deliver our Fruit Trees to

us about every 4 to 5 days until we had all of the Fruit Trees

in the ground, that is except the Black Cherry Trees, we had

decided to wait until the next fall to get them.

When all of the Fruit Trees had been planted we had 1, 128

Fruit Trees.

I bet you are wondering what in the world are we going to

do with all that Fruit.

The hold idea with the Fruit was so that the Guests in the RV

Park could pick the Fruit fresh from the Trees to eat and for

the house to use, and the rest to be sold at Tom's Place.

The Children would climb in the larger Fruit Trees, so I

wanted the Trees to be smaller so they couldn't climb in

them, the Dwarf Trees were perfect and another plus was

the Trees wouldn't have as much Fruit on it like the Full

Size Tree would have.

Also they would help provide some shade for the Park the

down side is that the Trees wouldn't start bareing Fruit until

they were a couple of years old.

The Blooms on these Trees would also add beauty to the Park

and help cut down on the noise of the road and the noise of

the Park.

With the Thanksgiving Holidays were almost here and there

would be a lot of cooking but Mom and Dad had said that I

wouldn't be doing much if any, because I was getting so big

and they didn't want me on my feet that long.

So when I went in to see the Doctor, I told him about my

feet swelling, he told me to keep my feet up as much as

possable, then they checked me out and took pictures of

the Baby, that is when we found out that I was having

Twins.

When I saw them I cried, the Doctor asked if I wanted to

know what they were, I said that one was a girl, Grace, and

the Doctor said that it right and the other was a boy.

I cryed more because I was so happy and sad at the same

time and then the Doctor wanted me to start coming in 2

times a month now instead of later, that worried me until he

told me it was because I was having Twins.

I was told that having Twins could be just as easy as

having one, but to be on the safe side I needed start

coming in more, that made sence to me.

So when I got home, I went stright out to Wayne's Grave

and sat down to talk to him about our babys, you see I

wanted to name the boy, Bradley after him.

You see Wayne's name is Bradley Wayne, and I wanted to

name him Bradley Scott, because I don't think we could

handle using Wayne.

After talking to Wayne I was feeling very calm and I wanted

to show my babies off to the Family so I went in and showed

Mom, Linda, and Aunt Ontonette the pictures of the babies,

they were socked but happy.

They didn't like it when I would going down the steps to

go to our Apartment because they were afraid that I would

fall, so Mom and Linda were always there watching me and

after that whenever I was walking around the yard I found

that Bob or one of the Family was always there with me.

I even found them in the Apartment after I got out of the

shower, that was OK because it was funny when they tried

to come up with some excuise for being there.

When Mom heard that Dark Chocolate was good for

Mothers to be, so she made sure that I got at least one

surving a day.

I had been complaining about driving and how hard it was

for me that Mom decided that it would be better if she or

some member of the Family would take me in for my Doctor's

visits, because I couldn't fit behind the wheel any more.

When Thanksgiving Week started I would just watch and

talk to the Guests and Friends and if Mom or Dad came in

and saw me they would check on me and then they would

send me home because they seamed to know when my feet

were hurting.

I would go down to the Apartment and be with Bonnie and

Donald to talk about everything and make plans what we

were going to do and were the Twins were going to sleep,

it seams the Bonnie wanted Grace to be in her room and

Donald wanted Bradley to be in his.

I told them that was a great idea and but what was they

going to do when the babies started crying all the time and

wouldn't it be better if the the babies had my bedroom, they

would still be very close by, that seamed to be OK with that

and I told them that I would be moving into the Livingroom.

When Bonnie and Donald went to sleep I would get out my

books on Twins, because you see Donald was reading on a

second grade level and I didn't want him finding them because

he would read them.

I did most of my planning and reading after they went to

sleep because it was quite, you can hear yourself think.

Tonight I needed to plan Donald's Birthday Party, I had

already invited his friends, but we needed Batman Plates,

Cups, and Party Favors.

Donald would be three year old and he was looking forward

to his friends being at the party and having fun.

For his presents he had asked for books as well as toys

and games.

For his Birthday Cake he wanted a Batman Cake so Aunt

Ontonette was making him one!!

Linda had got him books on Batman and Scobby-Doo and

two pairs of PJ with them on it.

Mom and Dad was getting him a Battery Powered Jeep and

I was getting him his first Tricycle and the rest was getting

him toys and clothes.

The Morning of his Birthday, the Family Decorated the

Dinning Room, after the last Guest had left after Breakfast.

Dad had put everything together and had the Battery charged

so it was ready to go.

All of his Friends came to the Party and they were all hiding

in the dinning room when we went upstairs.

Donald was so happy!

He and his Friends always had a great time along with the

Family, you would think it was Christmas so we were all

surprised when he started to cry.

He told me that he had not gotten one of his Presents.

I asked him what present that he didn't get and when he

told me that Daddy had promised to be there for his Birthday,

but he wasn't, because he was in Heaven.

By this time Bonnie and I were crying too, so I took them into

the Office and we talked about Daddy and I told them that

Daddy was watching over them and that he wanted them to

be happy so when our tears had dried and we felt better, we

went back to the Party.

The day wasn't as bright as it had been, but we did our

best to have a very good time.

Miriam and Jill was at the Birthday Party so Jill took Bonnie

over to the side and they played and Miriam and I talked and

watched over the whole Party.

When Donald's friends started leaving, I was afraid that he

might start crying again but he just told them he would see

them after the Holidays.

Miriam was going to stay because she was going to help

out in the Bakery and down stairs Kitchen.

After we got the Dinning Room cleared out again and ready

for the Supper Crowd, we went down stairs.

While they baked I sat talking to them and watching the

Children play.

The Dummy Waiter was kept very busy with all of the

Turkeys, Chicken, Cornish Hens, Cakes, Cookies, and Pies

go up to the main Kitchens.

What I didn't know was for our Christmas present, Dad and

Mom had gotten us a 4 Bedroom one story Log Cabin.

They had gotten the idea when they learned that I was going

to have Twins and Danny had been working on it.

Danny was working flat out to try and get it done before

the Babies came, so that we could go to our new home

when we came home from the hospital.

The Family, Friends, Staff, and Bob's crew had Thanksgiving

the next day, but I couldn't eat much at a time so I would

get a little bit, eat that and go back for more.

When it was time for us to clear the Dinning Room, we all

were so full of Food and love that we didn't want to move.

After the Holidays it was time for me to go back to see the

Doctor, he had expected me to have gained weight, I did

but not enough.

He wanted me to go into the hospital, so that they could

run some tests, just to make sure that the babies were growing.

I was to go in January 3rd for the tests.

The Doctor called Mom and Dad and told them to watch

me closely, because he was worried about one of the babys,

and he told them what to watch for and what to do if it happen.

You see the Doctor was afraid that one of the babys had died,

so he was very worried.

So for the rest of the month and December the Family

watched me like a hawk, but by this time I was used to

them always being around, so I didn't think nothing of it.

In December I started see the Doctor two times a week, so

Mom or Dad would take me and the Doctor would ask them

questions while I was in the exam room.

On our last visit before Christmas, Dad invited the Doctor

and his Family to come to Christmas Dinner and he excepted.

The day before Christmas Dad called the Doctor to remind

him about Christmas Dinner and tell him that I was getting

dizzy.

That was when I had to go to bed and stay there except to

go to the bathroom.

Miriam came and stayed with me when she could and the

Family did it the rest of the time so I wouldn't get to board

and get up and work around the house.

Mom and Bonnie took lots of pictures during the Christmas

Party and Mom brought Miriam and me lots of Food and I ate

until I was very full.

But when it was time to open presents the whole Family

and Friends came down to watch me open my gifts first and

some stayed to talk and give Miriam a chance to go up and

be with Jill when she open her gifts.

When the Doctor came in after everyone left, he complained

about the Food being so good and he had ate way to much.

He asked me if my Family was always like this and I told him

no they were worse than this, they had toned it down because

of Wayne's death and respect for us.

He wanted to know how I was feeling and how Bonnie was doing,

I told him that I was still dizzy but OK and Bonnie was doing

better, she still had times when she was very sad and I told him

that I though that Donald was mad at Wayne for breaking his

promise to be here for him!

When Miriam came back down she had us some plates with

lots of Desserts on them, the Doctor left us to enjoy our

Desserts, saying that he would see me on the third of January.

After the Christmas Holidays it slowed down to just a few

Guests until the New Years Eve Party, when Miriam came and

stayed with me, with Mom or Dad bring us all kinds of Food

and Punch.

After the Party, Mom and Dad came in to check on me and

tell us how the Party had done.

The four of us sat there talking and laughing until about 3:00

in the morning.

The whole time we were talking Mom kept fixing my pillow or

rearranging my covers and Dad would try to get us to eat more

by offering to go up and get us more food.

We were all close so when one had a problem we worried

until the problem was fixed.

I knew that Mom and Dad had been so worried about me

sence Wayne's death.

I didn't like it that they were begining to looked haggard.

They all were glad when the ambulance came on the third

to take me to the hospital for the test.

What I didn't know that I would be staying until the babies

came so that part came as a surprise to me.

When I asked why I had to stay, they told me that they

couldn't find the cause of my dizziness and to be on the

safe side they were going to keep me.

They also told me that all of my blood test had checked out

normal and I asked if they had checked the babies for Downs

or Autism.

The test they have now wasn't reliable or at least that was

what they told me.

I know that I didn't feel the same way as I did with Bonnie,

so I was hopeful that the babies would be fine!

I was so tired of being in bed and not being able to walk

around and do thing, I was getting very bored, so I got Mom

to get me some yarn and Crochet Hooks so I could make

something.

She also got me some beginners books, so I could teach

myself how to Crochet.

So I would lay there and work with the Crochet Hooks

until I learned some of the stitches then I decided to make

two Receiving Blankets.

Once I got them started I worked so hard on the Receiving

Blankets that by the end of January I had them done.

When February came I started working on a Blanket for

Bonnie and Donald.

That first week I was feeling great so I got a lot done on

their Blankets, but by the second week I started having

problems and late Friday night, February 8, my water broke.

I called the Nurse and told them what had happen, they came

in to check me that is when they told me that I was in hard

labor and they were going to call the Doctor, Mom, and Dad.

One of the Nurses stayed with me and we talked until it

was time to take me down to the Labor Room, where the

Doctor was waiting for me, along with some other Doctors

for the Twins.

I told my Doctor to save everything in case the babys needed

the blood.

Grace was born at 11:02 PM. and Bradley was born at

11:32 PM.