Karen Leigh - Countdown....

    So, my sister is celebrating a special birthday this year. I'm a few days late in my idea of honoring her 40 days until her 40th birthday.  So, I have a little catching up to do and hoping I can keep up.  In addition to celebrating her, this is a testimony to the redeeming and restoring of our sister bond - earthly and eternally. I'm thankful we share in our salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.  I plan to share some family memories and of course I won't embarrass anyone...  Please be patient because I'm not the writer in our family. I do numbers.  I desire for Karen to know how special our relationship is to me.  (I'm not the outwardly sentimental one, so this is a bit out of my comfort zone.)

 

My little sister, Karen Leigh, was born August 13, 1974. 

I don't remember life without her - which is good and bad... 

Mama said the whole time she was pregnant

she told me the baby was "ours", so I wouldn't be too 

jealous when she was born.  Therefore, every time she

cried or needed a diaper change, it was "our baby." 

 

 

     This picture was taken in 1975.  Along with wonderful

parents, Karen and I have been blessed with wonderful

aunts and uncles.  Uncle Jim died when he was very young. 

 Most of my memories come from pictures and

sharing with other family members.  I remember Uncle Jim

being tons of fun and playing with us. 

And he was a huge Carolina fan. 

For you formed my inward parts;
    you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
¹⁴ I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
    my soul knows it very well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
    the days that were formed for me,
    when as yet there was none of them.

Psalm 139:13-16