Presence is forever!

What a day this has been!  I have known for many months that I was mentioned in my brother, Jim's, will.   I was stunned by the news but figured out why I was included and he told me and  2 others why he wanted me included.   The one thing I knew was that he never gave me or my children a dime and we never expected or sucked up to him to get even an ice cream cone.   That wasn't the kind of relationship we had and we had not lived anywhere close to him until the last years.   I was at Betty's, my sister, and we started eating dinner every night together.   Then my other sister, Jennie, had a stroke in Cape and he started being a part of this scene.   I am truly delighted that we had this time together and I later remembered the reason that I was added, many years before, to his will.

You can't imagine what this inclusion meant to me.   He did not consider me a second-string player and he thought that my children made him proud.  And they did!   We got on the same wave length again that we had when we were children and I knew that he laughed with me as much as he did any other living person.   He loved the repartee and both of us did it well.   He was Mama's pet and I was Daddy's and we both knew how to send in the other when relief pitching was needed!

 Jim knew that he was creating family havoc with this will and even laughed about it to some outsiders who have shared his prediction with me.   He could  have cared less.   The thing about is, that he could have given all his money to a hospital,  or research or to Baylor University but he chose not to do that.  He gave every dime to a member of his family and they should all be grateful.  As for me and my children, we will be forever grateful for his wonderful gift to us.        (And I'm glad I taught you to dance,  you heavy-trodden Clutz!)