Last year, Shannon Barker spent Mother’s Day with her husband, Jonathan, in the hospital, visiting their daughter Hannah. This year, Shannon has been looking forward to spending the day at home — after church, of course, where her prayers will include many of thanks for the good health of her baby.
Originally due June 11, 2007, Hannah was delivered by C-section at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., on March 3, 2007. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces and was 11 inches long.
Now she’s still small, but healthy. At 14 months old, she is “just now starting to get in to 6-9-month-old clothes,” Shannon said.
“She’s happy and healthy and doing everything they expected her to developmentally, and she’s even ahead of where they thought she’d be on some things,” she added.
Now that Mary Lambert’s kids are grown up and on their own, she’s dancing for joy.
No, not because they’ve left home, but as a way to fill the empty hours without them.
Lambert, who lives in Callands, is the office manager for the Axton office of CPFilms. Her daughter, Deanna, 22, just got licensed as a CNA and lives in Martinsville. Her son, Jacob, 20 is a phlebotomist at Memorial Hospital. He and his wife, Adrienne, live in Collinsville.
“It was a tough transition when they left home,” she said. She is consoled by “one thing about it: I think they’ll always need their mother.”
She wasn’t going to wither away from the “emptiness with the children gone,” she said. She decided to take up something new and interesting.
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Tasty hors d’oeuvres were a big part of a mother-daughter tea party held by Brownie Troop 3060 Monday evening at Fort Trial Christian Church.
The main table held a colorful selection of treats. Across a piano, picture frames that the girls would receive as mementos were displayed. A smaller table was covered in teddy bears the girls brought to donate to local law enforcement agencies.
Fifty friends, family members and classmates of Nan Frith gathered Tuesday to honor her with the dedication of the memorial bench at the Marshall Fine Arts Building at Carlisle School.
Frith, who died in August 2003 after battling arthritis since her youth, was a member of the Carlisle Class of 1991. The granite bench, which is a traditional way to honor students and faculty at Carlisle, was the result of her classmates’ efforts.
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