Debbie Austin:  

Life Wow, guess what? I actually made it to the big 51 and lived through it! It is hard to believe I am not 16 again and running my boyfriends truck into the order pole at the Sonic or running that old Camero around the track in the Powderpuff derby. It is also hard for me to know I have grandbabies big enough to actually know who I am!! Life had been good to me. We all have our ups and downs but because of the elasticity of human nature we seem to snap back, sometimes a little worse for the stretching and sometimes a little better. I was born the oldest daughter of a migratory field worker and a homemaker. Our little family of four moved around alot growing up. Of course if you were moved around alot as a kid you know that entering an new school as the "new kid" always caused major unheavels in your self image. The sly looks, the pushing to see how far you could be pushed, the "who does she think she is" mentality of the young and the "where is my locker" panic of the first couple of days! But, as Mother always said, "this too shall pass, baby girl, this too shall pass". Lord, I miss her. At the grand old age of 7, yours truly went on strike! She threw down her hoe in the middle of 112 acres of cotton and started the long trek back to the truck. Fast on her heels came her Father. Wheeeew now that was an ugly session but she persevered and never picked up a hoe again! At the tender age of 10 my Father decided that if he became a missionary ...Expand for more