Our Precious Mawmaw

Where do I start? I guess at the beginning. We woke up on Thursday morning like normal. Nothing out of the ordinary until Shane's phone rang about 6:45. We all just looked around because it is so unusual for the phone to ring at that time. Shane jumped up and grabbed it. It was his Dad saying that Mawmaw had been rushed from work to the hospital in an ambulance and that was all he knew. Through the next few minutes there was the freak out of what is going on, do we all go, how does Marvin get to Huntsville, how severe is this? Plus the oh this must be no big deal, settle down, we have to settle down and figure out what to do next. Shane headed out by himself only to get a call from Pawpaw before he got out of the neighborhood saying he had spoken with the ER and it was not good. He quickly turned around and picked up me and HC along with a bag of clothes and some bare necessities. The drive from Birmingham to Huntsville (during morning rush hour) takes forever when you have no idea what is going on and you just need to be there. Thankfully Tyler picked up Pawpaw and drove him to the hospital. When we finally arrived we still didn't know much. Over the next few hours we finally started getting some information. The doctors suspected she had had a stroke. The answers were slow to come because of many different reasons but we finally got results from the MRI on Friday evening and they did not paint a promising picture. We prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed some more. We were just not ready for this situation. We needed the Lord and He was there in a mighty way giving us strength to face each day as it came.

As much as we wanted our Mawmaw back just the way she was, that was not in God's plan. He had bigger and better plans for her. He took her home on Saturday, April 23rd. While it is so difficult for us hear, we are trusting that she is celebrating her eternity with our heavenly father. She got to spend Easter Sunday with Jesus himself! What a welcome party that must have been! We are left with facing each day as it comes and learning to live a new life that does not hear that sweet voice "just checking on you". I pray that we can keep Mawmaw's memory fresh in Hannah Claire's mind and tell Wyatt all about the amazing woman that his Mawmaw was. She will be missed each and every day that we spend here waiting for our time to join our heavenly father. Please, please, please if you do not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ then find one. I'm not talking about religion but a real meaningful relationship. That is the only way to guarantee an eternity with Him and so many of our loved ones. Life will disappear in an instant and it will be too late at that point. Please don't delay!