LORI HAS APPS

it is 4:45 Sunday morning. "I" does not like the rain, it is raining. She went outside and I was quite surprised she did. Because as I said, she does not like rain. I hear it hitting the AC unit in the dining room window. The rhythm of the tapping as it hits the metal casing. I might go back to sleep sitting here at the computer. I will try not too.

I had a comment on my blog yesterday. it was from Lori, who happens to be my niece. She lives in Kansas. Lori has Apps. I mentioned the other day here how I try not to covet other peoples belongings. I said I covet my daughters beautiful chests from the old library. Now I have double envy living in my heart now as I discover Lori has Apps. She mentioned she was not sure how to use them all. It really doesn't matter to me if I could use them or not, just to own them. it sounds so cool.

Lori and her sister Mickie started their life's right here in Joplin. They were Missouri girls, but of course they were so small they won't remember back when they did live here. My husband then and my Billie who was only six came down from Leavenworth for the weekend. . Geri, James and the two little girls, one and two piled into our car to come home with us for a week. They never came back. Oh back to visit but but never to live again. It was just that simple and their life's changed forever.

Both of the girls were born at a hospital here in Joplin. it was called Joplin General hospital. Lori at 4th and Mofett and Mickie at the same hospital new location, 34th and Indiania. The old one on Mofett has long since been torn down and the Boy Scot offices sits in the spot where the hospital once was. The one on 34th and Indiania is still there but is called Freeman East. I guess girls I should go and put a little sign there by the corner of each spot. Lori and Mickie were born here. So the world will know down deep in your souls you will always be Joplin girls.

Their family lived in Leavenworth for two years, then they bought a house in a little town fifteen miles from Leavenworth called Easton. A boy and another girl were added to the family there and the family of four become six. They spent their youths in a very small town. Population probably around three hundred. So they knew and still do everyone around.

I got to thinking about this yesterday. How one small act can put monumental changes into our life's. If we hadn't come down home for the weekend. If Geri hadn't said they needed to get away for a few days. If Al hadn't said to James, "Why not come home with us," how different all their life's might have been.

They wouldn't have grown up in a small Kansas farm town. A tiny spot on the map. If it is even on the map. They wouldn't have married the people they did. Had the children they have. The story might have been very different.

Jim wouldn't have taken over his Dad's Roofing company at his death. Wouldn't have met and married the girl he did. Neither would have the girls married the men they did.
They might have all grown up in Joplin. They would have been intertwined more in their cousins lifes. And vice versus.

I think we all have times we stop and reflect on a certain period or act in our life and say , "If only." Its as if "If only," is a country we all go back too at times. Conjuring in our minds how our life might have played out, "If only."

I have always refused to hardly even visit there. It is a land I advice you not to go to. I must admit I have wandered there in my mind a few times, but to me it is a painful land. As I grow older I have learned to take where I am and work with it. At least I try that philosophy anyway.

I am rather rambling this morning. It doesn't take much to get me doing that very thing. If you have read this blog I am sure you have already discovered that about me.

I just got to thinking about the Kansas Moody's yesterday. And how they almost were the Missouri Moody's. I like that, the double "M's". I like the sound of it. But I believe for the most part our life's work out the way they pretty much are suppose too. The people that share our world are there for a reason. And that short trip they made that sealed their destny in Kansas, I think it was meant to be.

They are all special to me. My sister, her girls and Jimmy. I have not been a constant in their growing up but I love them all.

So Lori you up there in Kansas with your Apps, being cool. Your sister Mickie and Cindy and Jimmy. You could have been, you shoulda been. At least I think so. The Joplin Moody's. Now doesn't that have a ring to it?