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Kali Kat

So I am spending the afternoon and evening at my best friend's place. Our suito daughter, Kali, is here from Illinois visiting for about a week. It is so wonderful to see her. So wonderful to talk to her in person. And her little brothers (mine and Samantha's toddler sons) absolutely adore her!! So, to Kali Kat... I love you and am grateful to spend time with you <3

Gone Too Soon

I spent most of my summer days at the swimming pool, there in our apartment complex with my friends in the year, 1987. This freshly turned eight year old red headed little girl, had not one care in the world until that fateful day of August the 14th...
I remember it like it was just yesterday. The sun was bright, the air was warm and not a cloud to be found.  I was heading home from swimming, when my friend Travis came running towards me, waving a newspaper over his head. As he handed it to me, crying, I saw the picture of a beautiful woman with longish curly brown hair, Jacqueline Roberson...
Twenty-eight years old…
First grade teacher at Ardmore Elementary School...
The headline read “Body Found in Prince George’s County, Believed to be Missing Teacher; Area Searched Near Where Car Was Found.” However, all that I could see was “Body Found” and her face. My eyes welled with tears, blurring my vision as I ran home to the comfort of my mother’s arms. I remember handing the paper to her and her turning on the news. She tried to keep me from watching, but I refused to leave. I mean, hello??? This was my teacher! This was my teacher from this previous school year!! (I had been held back in kindergarten so I was a year older than my fellow classmates). On the news that day, I can remember seeing the police searching the brush in the woods. Combing through every ounce of debris left behind by nature...
…Today, I am 32 years old. Only four years older than Mrs. Roberson, when she was stabbed to death while waxing her husbands car.
I’d not been going to school for very long and had already NOT had the best experience ever. Not until we moved to Maryland in 1986, and I’d become the student of Miss Bolino She was a beauty and looked so young to me. First day of school, I sat prim and proper at my desk. Arms laid across it, fingers laced together. Trying so hard to make the best impression that I possibly could…While the rest of the class was loud and rowdy. I had been noticed by my new teacher, and greeted with the warmest of smiles. To get the attention of the rest of the class, I remember she asked us all how old we thought she was. I raised my hand and waited to be called upon. “19!”, I’d said. And I truly believed her to be so young. Miss Bolino liked my answer and made it a point to tell me so.
In April, the following year, my beautiful, young teacher married a man named Clyde. A handsome man that I remember to have had dark hair. One Day, she brought him and their Golden Retriever to class for show and tell. Then she explained to us that she was not longer Miss Bolino, but that she was now Mrs. Roberson. To help each of her students remember her new last name, she made a little game, teaching us motions…The “ROW" a boat motion, the “BURR” its cold motion and “SUN” above our heads motion. Row-Burr-Sun… Roberson! That school year was such fun having her as our teacher. She was the last teacher, until the eight grade, to have made an impact on me. A part of me shattered the day I’d learned that someone had brutally slayed her! Her short life, her impact on me and her murder has never left me. I’ve searched far too long for information on what had happened and whom had commited such a horrific crime. Finally, thanks to the help of my mother and a friend, I have some real answers. Yet, I will continue to search for more, for as long as it takes until I know the trials have all ended and her case has finally been laid to rest….
I remember the day, my teacher’s body was found, like it was just yesterday. The sun was bright... The air was warm... Not a cloud could be found.

Looking to the Sky

Life changes from day to day, and from year to year. Fabulous changes. Not so fabulous changes. But with each change, we grow as individuals, friends, loves, siblings, children and parents. My life is constantly changing. I have beautiful children and amazing friends. My husband is the most forgiving man I have ever met! And my life would be complete chaos without him. I have a great life... but it's a life not without it's problems. 


I took my youngest son to the doctor the other and learned he has Strabismus. It has to do with his eyes. basically both of his eyes are lazy and now we get to take him to Children's medical Center and learn whether or not he has to have surgery. I'm grateful to have caught it early yet I am worried at the same time ~ just as any mother would be.


My mother is ill with two serious heart conditions, Cardio Myopathy and Congestive Heart Failure. She has her ups and downs but it scares me. It scares me more than I will admit to her (unless she reads this blog, lol) Every phone call I receive from my father, I worry that he is calling to inform me that mom is on her way to the hospital again. Or that mom's life on this earth has ended. 


My very best friends, in all this world ~ aside from my husband ~ live too far away. One is in Virginia while I am in Texas, and the other three hours away. My other, very close, friends are busy with their lives, as I am. So most days it's just my two boys and me... alone with my thoughts ~ which is NEVER a good thing! Thus leading me to this blog. I do not blog often, due to my toddlers keeping me extremely busy, but today I truly felt the need.


There is not much to this blog, but I need/needed to get some things off of my chest. 


I've done some things that I am not proud of. Things that have hurt someone I love deeply. Someone who has been my rock and who has been here for me come hail or high water. I will not get into it and I will not diverge who it is that I hurt... Just know that I am a mess because of it. What makes me feel even worse, is that this person immediately forgave me... that's not to say that all is well between us. No, we have plenty to work out and it will take some serious time for the two of us to go back to where we were. But I can not apologize enough. I can not express, enough, how I feel and how badly I want things right again. But in time, I will be able to do so.


In the meantime ~ with all that I have on my plate ~ I will be looking to the sky... I will be turning to our father in heaven to help me and guide me through all of my fears, all of my hurt and all that I have screwed up in my. ever changing, life.

That is all... 

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