Snead’s Farmhouse

Snead’s Farmhouse

Blue showed back up tonight!!! Made my day🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚

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Charlie came to see me today!!!

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I APPRECIATE YOU!!!!!🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

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Snead’s Farmhouse

People may wonder today why I did so much for Larry.

The truth is… my story with Larry started long before he ever married my mom.

When Bobby was about two years old and Greg and I were around six and seven, my dad suddenly left my mom. From the stories I later heard from friends and family, my mom never saw it coming. She was devastated and completely heartbroken.

Within a year, my dad remarried. I’ll never forget that day for as long as I live. Greg and I were getting dressed for the wedding, and I remember seeing my mom sitting on the couch crying. I asked her what was wrong. I don’t remember exactly what she said, but I remember the hurt on her face.

And you know what I did?

I stayed home with my mom.

When my dad left, my mom suddenly found herself alone with three small children and no job. She had to start completely over from the ground up. She decided to go back to school, but with three little kids, daycare wasn’t something she could afford. So my grandparents stepped in and kept us every Tuesday and Thursday for years while my mom worked to build a future for us.

Looking back now as an adult, I realize my mom was drowning financially. But as kids, we never knew it. We played every sport imaginable — football, baseball, softball, basketball, cheerleading, dance — anything we wanted to do, she found a way to make happen. We went out to eat. We took vacations every summer. We never felt poor. We never felt the struggle she was carrying on her shoulders.

My mom sacrificed everything for us.

Years later, my mom started dating someone else. Greg and I thought more about the Corvette he owned than anything else because we figured maybe one day we’d get one too. But that relationship ended badly when he left my mom for her best friend.

Once again, my mom was heartbroken.

At that point, my mom buried herself in work. Unfortunately, that meant we didn’t get to see her as much as we wanted. We stayed with babysitters a lot and sometimes stayed home alone. Looking back now, I think my mom carried tremendous guilt over that. And because of that guilt, she tried to show us love by giving us everything she possibly could.

I remember every single time she got a raise at work, we got gifts. She was so proud of herself. She didn’t spend the money on herself — she spent it on us. That was who she was.

By the time Greg and I graduated high school, I think my mom was financially exhausted. She made the difficult decision for her and Bobby to move in with my grandparents so she could try to get out of debt and rebuild her life.

Then one day… Larry entered the picture.

To all of us kids, it was a shock because Larry and my mom were complete opposites. I’ll never forget one night around midnight when my mom woke all of us up and told us to come into the living room. There sat Larry and my mom. We were all half asleep wondering why in the world we were awake at midnight.

Then they announced they were engaged.

Mom held up her ring, and all of us kids just stared in shock. But we were happy because for the first time in a long time, we saw our mom happy again.

They got married in 1991.

One thing my mom told me that I never forgot was how Larry paid off all of her debt. She said the day she wrote out that final check, she cried the entire drive home from work because she finally felt free. She was so thankful God had brought Larry into her life.

And in return, my mom brought joy into Larry’s life too. Larry had lived a very different kind of life before Mom. Suddenly he was experiencing things he’d never experienced before — vacations, outings, fun, family chaos, and yes… probably a little partying too.

They were absolutely perfect for each other.

Then five years later, everything changed.

My mom suffered a massive brain stem stroke that left her completely paralyzed.

We all panicked.

Larry panicked.
I panicked.
Our whole family panicked.

Because my mom was the center of our family.

And suddenly Larry — a man who had never even had children of his own — found himself changing his wife’s diapers, helping care for her, managing caregivers, working a full-time job, and carrying burdens most people in this room cannot even imagine.

A lot of men would have walked away.

A lot of men would have said the stress was too much.

But not Larry.

Larry stayed.

He stayed through the hard days.
He stayed through the exhaustion.
He stayed through the heartbreak.
He stayed for eleven years.

One day I looked at my mom and told her, “I will take care of Larry when you’re gone.”

And she looked back at me and simply said, “Thank you.”

Today, I can honestly say I kept that promise until the day Larry died.

Larry, thank you for being my mother’s hero.

Thank you for loving her when life got hard.

Thank you for showing me what loyalty really looks like.

Thank you for teaching all of us what commitment means.

You were not my biological father…
but you were absolutely family.

And I will forever be grateful for you.

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My rockstar son performing!!! I will NOT be live in the morning. Shane has works all weekend and he's exhausted. Tomorrow is a holiday so he'll be home.