All You Ever Wanted to Know
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 ABOUT ME 

After leaving the Raleigh area we headed west, towards Ashville, North Carolina. We had arranged to stay with another family and then we were going to head straight north through the Smokey Mountains.

This family lived high up in the mountains. They have 6 children of their own and are also foster parents. It was so beautiful and peaceful up on the mountain. Of course, I haven't been there in the winter, when maybe the roads are impassable, but if a person stocks up ahead it shouldn't matter.  

Anyway, in the picture on the left, that's my son in the left rear and me with the white shirt and dark hair. One of my girls was taking the picture.

Its just them in the picture on the right, the dad had already gone in to work. 

It was an amazing coincidence but one of their friends was the midwife I had when we lived in Raleigh.  She had moved to the area a few years earlier. So they called her up for me and we got to say hello. There is always a connection between a woman and her midwife, at least there is for me. So I am throwing in a picture of her, at Serena's birth.

So then we headed back home, to Northwest Ohio, going through the Smokey Mountains Park. We drove into the park but many roads were closed due to some heavy rains a month earlier when some of the roads were washed away. That didn't stop us from stopping at various places where cars were allowed. 

Here's the kids at the bottom (left) and then the top of a hill (right) at one of the scenic stops. I think just the two older ones climbed up the hill, with Serena staying down below with me.

You can see cameras on Eric and Serena, while Anna is hanging on to her bag of chips. So there were lots of pictures taken of mountains and hills since we are from flat flat Northwestern Ohio.  

Here's some of them.

This page was created on January 10, 2002,
and last revised March 8, 2002.