I'm back tracking a little, but I have had so much fun looking at everyone's blogs and mine needed some personal touches!
One of Dr. Steve's favorite sayings is, "You can rest when you're dead." And as I look back on our life together we have pretty much lived it that way. We have always been active in family, church, school, and civic activities. We have always worked hard and we have played hard, and loved being around people while we were working or playing.
Dr. Steve and I both grew up showing livestock. Dr. Steve showed pigs and I showed pigs and sheep. We met at a stockshow when I was a Jr. & Dr. Steve was a Sr. We married in August after I graduated from high school and moved to Lazbuddie where Dr. Steve was Farmer Steve. I went to WTU (now WTAMU).
We decided to come back closer to home and Farmer Steve became Policeman Steve and I finished my teaching degree at Tech! I graduated in Dec. '81 and we were blessed with a beautiful baby girl, Chelsey, in Feb. '82. Two years later we added a precious baby boy, Seth, in March '84. We rocked along for several years staying busy with the kids (soccer, baseball, basketball, 4-H, dance, etc.) and our jobs.
But in 1993 we made a huge decision to move to College Station and Policeman Steve would become Dr. Steve. We packed up our 6th grade daughter and 4th grade son and headed south. None of us had ever lived more than a couple of hours from Lubbock. WOW!!! It was a huge move, but we enjoyed our time in College Station. Some of Chelsey's very best friends are from College Station and they have remained so close since Jr. High.
We moved to Burleson when Steve finished school and had become Dr. Steve. We were there 3 years. Chelsey graduated from Burleson and then Gama (Dr. Steve's mom) developed a brain tumor and we decided to come back home to help Gama and GranGran. I'm so glad we came home when we did because Dr. Steve got to spend precious time with his mother that he would have missed had we stayed in Burleson. Gama passed away in Aug. of 2000, and we were back home and loving being back in West Texas with family and friends.
Chelsey started Tech as a Soph. that year and Seth was a Jr. at Frenship. Dr. Steve started a vet practice in the Wolfforth area and I taught school.
Then it was my time to go through the whole career changing time, but I didn't have to move off to make my changes. I opened up a little specialty store called, "My Lips Are Sealed." We made homemade casseroles, salads, breads, and desserts. Ladies would bring us their dishes and we would put our food in them and they would take them home, bake them and pull them off as their own creations. It was so much fun, but I had never worked so hard in my life! I didn't cook for my own family anymore, I didn't put up a Christmas tree, I didn't do anything, but cook for others. So I sold the business and went back to teaching. But I became restless again- frustrated with public education and decided to make a change. I currently work part time for AgriLife Extension Service, help Dr. Steve a little at the clinic, and cater for special occasions for close friends. During this time we also added a precious little girl to our family. Seth adopted Bailey Nicole and we have enjoyed loving on her. So Dr. Steve became "Grumps" and I became "Grinna"! Chelsey became a nurse for Parkland Hospital in Dallass and married Gregg, a fireman in Irving, who is from Hale Center!
But in November of 2010 my world changed! Chelsey and Gregg blessed us with a baby boy, Cade, and I will never be the same! And that was the beginning of Grinna's Goodies! I started making Cade burp clothes, bibs, blankets, and grabbees. Then others began asking me if I would make something for them and then another and another. I think I have finally grown up and found my nitch. I haven't made 2 things alike yet. I can be creative and everything is always different and I'm never bored!
So 34 years ago Steve and I began our journey through life together. We enjoying catering, going to the mountains to fish and read (guess who fishes and who reads), playing 42 with friends, going to Tech football and baseball games, and still today he says, "Come on, you can rest when you're dead!"
Welcome to Grinna's Goodies!
