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ildren i know you will love them and enjoy them as much as i have loved and enjoyed mine be sure to keep in touch with ray he s probably lonely make sure he has enough money to live on i don t know where you ll find it i m sorry we were unable to leave anything for y all but be sure he s fed and clothed and housed please i know you and erika will be just fine you are both so well suited for each other remember how much in love you have always been i hope you ve been able to do some travelling now that the kids are out and you re on your own try to weed out the clutter and the stuff regularly it s much easier to do it every 3 5 years than it is to do it all when you re ready to make your final move buy long term health care insurance when you turn 55 it s cheaper then and you ll have it when you need it decide early where you want to retire and focus on it i know erika hates to plan so it will be up to you to get her moving in the right direction enjoy yourselves and take care of my grandchildren for me love mom ian oh my you must be in your mid 30s now you had a tough time as a kid but i hope and pray you ve been able to live comfortably with your problems i know you ve learned many great coping skills to deal with your asberger s and as long as you remember that we re all cheering for you you ll be fine i imagine you ve got a job and maybe you ve got a wife and kids i hope your job lets you use your unique talents in a way that is satisfying for you if you have kids i m sure you are as good a father to them as your father was to you be sure to let the grandkids go visit the grandparents as often as you can they will love to see them but don t just dump them and leave your folks would love to see you and visit with you too i imagine you ve got a great set of friends i hope you ve found a church that speaks to you remember that granddad and i love you very very much love g mom kate my sweet katie you re almost 30 years old now and i ll bet you ve already taken the world by storm you ve probably graduated summa cum laude from college with your bachelor s degree and maybe you even have a master s degree if you want to go on and get your phd i know you ll do great with that too i imagine you have a husband or at least a steady boyfriend i hope he loves you as much as your parents and i do you tell him he d better treat you really really well or he ll have me to answer to if not in this life then for sure in the next one enjoy yourself travel go to nice restaurants see sights meet all kinds of special people then settle down and raise wonderful grandchildren for your mom and dad to love and spoil find your way back to the church i know god has been calling you since you were a very small child and she must have great plans for you no matter what know you can do anything you want to do don t ever let anybody tell you girls don t do that stay sweet and loving and happy and caring love g mom posted in family legacy project tagged asberger s empty nest long term health care faith in god grandchildren medicare benefits retirement package 1 reply penultimate legacy post posted on september 21 2011 by abbiewatters reply i ve finally reached the end of the legacy project i ll do the last post tomorrow it will probably be a fairly long one and i want to have time to do it justice i played bridge this afternoon and i don t really have a lot of time to work on it sooooooo stay tuned and come back tomorrow for the grand finale posted in legacy project tagged almost the end leave a reply memories of me posted on september 20 2011 by abbiewatters reply what do you see as your place or purpose in life how did you come to that conclusion i see me as the repository of corporate knowledge because i have a fly paper memory i seem to remember stuff that other people don t as i ve gotten older it sometimes takes some prompting for me to dredge the stories and scenes out of my brain but writing this blog i ve realized i often remember when and what others don t siblings cousins and even children have remarked to me that the episodes and people i ve recounted here had disappeared from their memories until i reminded them that s probably because i preferred being an observer of the family instead of a participant in it i preferred sitting quietly and listening to adults talk rather than playing with my cousins siblings and others of my own age i m encouraging al to do his own set of questions because he often will say you forgot to mention so and so i respond hey these are my memories you need to write your own it isn t that i don t remember most of the things he reminds me of it s that those episodes weren t important to me while they may have been important to him what would you like your children and grandchildren to remember about you i would like them to remember that i loved them and that i did the very best i could for them i d like them to remember the way i took care of my own parents so they will treat me with the same love and respect that i had for mama and papa i d like them to remember my passion for social justice and my love of god and the church i d like them to remember that family is one of the most important things and that even if you don t agree with your sisters brothers cousins and parents you still need to love and respect them posted in family legacy project tagged church corporate knowledge family fly paper memory god important things love mama and papa purpose in life leave a reply problems and setbacks posted on september 19 2011 by abbiewatters reply do you think a person needs to first overcome serious setbacks or challenges to be truly successful i don t think it s necessary but it certainly does help in the maturation process it s probably better if someone has practice in overcoming small disappointments early like when she is a child understanding that things aren t always fair and also that you can still be happy even if you don t get everything you want as soon as you want it is the result of long practice in not having things always go your way one of the worse things a parent can do for a child is not let them fail occasionally when they are allowed to fail in small things they learn how to overcome challenges in what way is it important to know your limitations in your life or career again understanding that you can t do something and either figuring out a different way to accomplish your goals or readjusting your goals is very important to your mental well being and happiness accepting your limitations frees you up to explore different avenues and paths if you had the power to solve one and only one problem in the world what would it be and why i would ensure that no one man woman or child had to go to bed hungry we have enough wealth in the world to solve this problem if only we quit hoarding what we have and shared it with folks who don t have enough posted in family legacy project tagged disappointments hunger maturation process setbacks leave a reply life posted on september 17 2011 by abbiewatters reply do you have a philosophy of life only to try to leave the world a better place than i found it what s your best piece of advice for living appreciate what you have and try not to wear yourself out yearning for something that s impossible it it is possible and you want it do whatever it takes to change yourself to get it if a young person came to you asking what s the most important thing for living a good life what would you say do justice love mercy and walk humbly with your god how do you define a good life or a successful life leaving the world a little better than i found it raising happy content children being true to myself posted in family legacy project tagged god love philosophy of life piece of advice leave a reply change and advice posted on september 16 2011 by abbiewatters reply over time how have you changed the way you look at life people i ve become more and more realistic some would say cynical in the way i look at people as i ve aged i m pretty intuitive about people s motives and future actions and i ve come to realize more and more that people are no damned good all else being equal and without some external stimulus to the contrary people will try to get away with anything and everything with very little remorse that s one of the reasons i believe we need moral government regulations because people will lie cheat steal and harm others if they think they have a chance that s also the main reason i think we need a strong progressive tax code because without it most people will not help those who are less fortunate than themselves i also believe that i m the only one who is or can be responsible for my actions i try not to blame other folks or circumstances for problems in my life and if i don t like something in my life i believe it s up to me to change it what advice did your grandparents or parents give you that you remember best i ve already said that nannie taught me you can t raise children and flowers too they also taught me to keep my nose out of other people s business i m the one who is responsible to end disagreements by apologizing even if i don t think i did anything wrong and moving on if you can t say something nice don t say nothin at all do justice love kindness and walk humbly with your god posted in family legacy project tagged external stimulus good advice mind your own business moral government progressive tax leave a reply regrets i ve had a few posted on september 15 2011 by abbiewatters reply but then again too few to mention what if anything would you have done differently in your life for what i knew at the time and the opportunities that were open to me i think i made really good choices i don t know that i would change any choice that i ve made sometimes it took a while for me to realized that the outcome was what i really wanted and what was my destiny but generally i m pleased what do you know now that you wish you had known when you were young i wish i hadn t been so brain washed by my high school s emphasis on college prep as opposed to business courses of course in those days business courses for girls were typing and bookkeeping and if you were really determined and dedicated shorthand my life would have been very very different if i had realized early that i love to type and i love bookkeeping and i love organization and i love business instead i spent 30 years trying to be a teacher and a professional girl scout and a director of christian education i finally learned that people are not my thing facts and figures and charts and lists are my thing what have you thrown away in your life that you wish you hadn t about the only thing that s gone that i wish i still had wasn t thrown away it was lost i had a silver dollar from 1888 that was gankie s good luck coin he carried it in his pocket all his life and it was worn almost completely smooth it was even noticeably thinner than a mint condition silver dollar because so much of the silver had worn away from rubbing against the other coins in his pocket i had a silver ring that held it and i wore it on a silver chain as a pendant during the summer of 2006 al and i went to a conference in new orleans he was being presented with an award at a luncheon the last day of the conference we had already checked out of our hotel room and after lunch we changed clothes in the restroom for the ride home apparently i didn t pick up the necklace after i changed my blouse about 50 miles and an hour later i realized i didn t have it with me and we turned around and went back to the hotel we searched all over the restroom in the trash under the sinks and everywhere i questioned the staff no one remembered seeing it and i never found it a couple of months later katrina inundated new orleans and the civic center and the hotel where we had stayed my keepsake is probably at the bottom of the mississippi river now but i still grieve over losing it what have you held on to that s important and why is it important because we ve moved so often and cut down our possessions so many time in anticipation of moving i don t have much except an old shoe box of mementos from our honeymoon some old photographs from al s family most have been scanned digitized and the originals disposed of a few old papers and diplomas from mama and papa and al s family that i keep for genealogical purposes and some jewelry i have an antique starburst pin in old gold with seed pearls and a tiny diamond that mama gave me on my wedding day it came to her from her mother and grandmother i also have an ancient cameo set in gold filigree that miss robbie gave me that had been in her family for ages what junk have you held on to and why as i said i haven t held on to much i supposed the keepsakes from our honeymoon would qualify as junk i don t think even al would remember much about them our christmas tree ornaments and some of our decorations would probably qualify as junk but i keep them for memories of good family times in the past there s one thing to be said for moving every 3 or 4 years you learn to let go of stuff before you get too attached to it posted in family legacy project tagged accounting antique jewelry business courses christmas decorations college prep courses director of christian education good luck coin mint condition professional girl scout teacher leave a reply the story of my life posted on september 14 2011 by abbiewatters 1 if you were writing the story of your life how would you divide it into chapters i would definitely divide it as we moved around the country and the world maybe i m more affected by my surroundings than most people but it seems to me that my life changed as we moved beginning in my childhood right up until today that also makes nice neat divisions in the story chapter 1 texarkana i am born and live with mama and nannie and gankie while papa is overseas in the army chapter 2 california after papa came home chapter 3 houston tx dunlevy street and myrtle street chapter 4 pasadena tx chapter 5 concord california chapter 6 westfield nj chapter 7 junior college texarkana ar chapter 8 stephen f austin state college nacogdoches tx chapter 9 denver co chapter 9 ramstein ab germany chapter 10 westfield nj and nacogdoches tx while al was in southeast asia chapter 11 england afb alexandria la chapter 12 nellis afb las vegas ne chapter 13 raf upper heyford england chapter 14 raf fairford england chapter 15 texarkana ar chapter 16 dyess afb abilene tx chapter 17 the apartment in dallas chapter 18 the house in dallas chapter 19 looking forward to franke tobey jones the end posted in family legacy project tagged abilene alexandria dallas denver franke tobey jones nacogdoches raf fairford raf upper heyford ramstein ab germany 1 reply influences posted on september 13 2011 by abbiewatters 1 are there times of your life that you remember more vividly than others why i suppose there are incidents that i remember if 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