Rummaging around in some old stuff I came across this clip today.  "Prudence to wed stable boy"   Prudence Coker was my grandmother's sister.  Prudence fell in love with a stable boy on her father's farm in England in 1906 but her father (my great grandfather) didn't think he was good enough for her and forced her to break it off.  

Prudence eventually moved to Philadelphia to be near her baby sister, Hetta (my grandmother).  Pru never married.  And the stable boy (Johnny Edgecome) moved to New Zealand and married but his wife later died.

In 1954, Johnny re-connected with Pru. He discovered that she had never married and was still waiting for him.  She had waited 48 years.  He proposed via airmail and the long separated sweethearts were united in marriage.  After their honeymoon Pru moved to New Zealand with her beloved.   They lived happily ever after.

Is that a story to melt your heart or what?

Wow, it's been 3 years since my last blog post and a lot has happened since then.  Shortly after my last post I was diagnosed with breast cancer and went thru surgery and then several months of recovery.  I have to admit the physical recovery was not as bad as the mental recovery which took quite a bit longer.  It was harder than I thought it would be to get used to the "new me".   But, I have much to be thankful for in that the cancer had not spread to the lymph nodes and I was spared the dreaded chemo and radiation. 

Last time I posted, Ashley had just started middle school and now she has just started high school.  What a difference 3 years makes at that age.  The transformation is nothing short of miraculous.  She's turning into a really beautiful young woman.   Thank you dear Jesus for blessing me and letting me be here to see it. 

Well, I'm going to try to post fairly regularly, I can't promise my posts will always be interesting.  I read other blogs and I'm so inspired and I think Wow, what interesting lives these people must have. LOL, me....not so much.

GOD bless you.