Grandma Lou passed away on New Year's Day. This is a day that I will never forget. I do believe now that everything happens for a reason & you should always go with your heart!
It started with New Years Eve coming up. Stewart really wanted to go out with his friends (me too of course) We couldn't find a sitter, everyone had plans! My dad called and said that he would love to keep the girls. So that was the plan, Him and Vicki would watch them over night and we would spend the night with my Aunt Jeri Lyn. Karston woke up New Years Eve morning with the flu, poor girl couldn't keep anything down. Sign #1, Of course we wouldn't go out. We spent the evening watching movies and just relaxing as a family. It was perfect other than Miss Karston didn't feel well. She started to feel better about 6pm. So we decided that we would go to church the next day, That was a New Years Resolution of ours to go to church at least once a month. We all got to bed at a good time..
The next morning (New Years Day) we got up, showered, and got all ready for church just like any other morning. (We obviously wouldn't have made it to church if we went out with our friends.) We are driving into church and pull into the parking lot and there is NOT one car there.. We were a little confused, I was driving, so without even asking I went straight to Rex and Mary Lous (they always know :)..) We unloaded and went on in, told them we had plans to go to church, but no one is there. Rex laughed and said it starts at 10 not 9 (Sign #2). So we said we would just stay there and visit until church started.
Stewart was visiting with Rex about farming like always. I was talking to Mary Lou. She was telling me she had been up with the flu, so I told her about Karston too. She told the girls how pretty they looked and such. We were all just caring on a great conversation when I seen Grandma Lou take her last 3 breaths. I jumped up! I told Stewart to HELP!... I grabbed both girls and took them downstairs and told them how important it is for them to STAY down here and NOT come upstairs. I needed them to be BIG girls. They did so. Stewart and I called 911, they guided us and helped us until HELP came. Stewart did CPR on Grandma Lou also. I have never been more proud of him in my life. Even though he was scared, sad and 100 other things all at once he knew just what to do. The ambulance came and rushed her back to the hospital.
I truly believe in my heart we were to be there to help Rex, to help Mary Lou and to see Grandma Lou for the final time.
Mary Lou and I clicked from the first time that I met her. She was always 100% supportive with Stewart and I. She told me one night that she couldn't have picked a better girlfriend/soon to be wife at the time for Stewart. Stewart and his grandparents have a very special relationship, they were VERY close. Rex and him remind me more of "father-son"
Sometimes people may think that photos are a pain, are expensive, but when someone is gone...that is how you remember them years from now. I am so thankful that we have many photos of Grandma Lou for my girls to look at and remember the good times!
RIP Mary Lou, we miss you more than you will ever know. Please watch over us!
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