Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Family in TN


Mike's Mom has a brother and sister in law in TN who are two of the sweetest people we know. Mike is so much like Uncle Jimmy it's just plum scary. Aunt Toni is always the one that when you walk in her door she has food on the stove ready to serve. She feeds you until you are going to pop. But the food is wonderful home cooking. They rent their front field out to their neighbors who have alpaca's. So the kids enjoy playing around with them. Toni and Jimmy both love gardening and messing around in their yard. Their flowers are beautiful. They have 4 sons and 1 daughter until about a month ago when their oldest son (48) died. He was a truck driver and they found him at a rest area in TN (he lives in FL) in his truck. They say he just passed away in his sleep. Now today, we find out that Aunt Toni has cancer. They are very private people, so many of us didn't know she had been in to have surgery a while back. Now she is back in after one month and apparently the tumor is twice what it was a month ago and there is nothing they can do. I don't know their plans at this point. This is going to be tough on them. All of the kids are in Florida. Aunt Toni and Uncle Jimmy live on a mountain top in Bloomington, TN. They live there because of her. She never liked Florida. She enjoys the seasons and wilderness. Please pray that she has a peaceful time and is able to see her family. I really hate this for them.

This is Aunt Toni with the kids at my inlaws flower garden.



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