Coincidence?

Not that anyone at all will care about this, but some things are so strange that I just have to tell you about them.

Mark’s and my anniversary is August 26.  We share this anniversary date with a McDaniel cousin and his wife and our CPA and his wife, who was a student teacher of mine.  This year was the BIG 20 for Mark and me.  We are content and doing well.  We love each other and are happily motoring toward retirement.  But our anniversary in 2008, 6 years ago (#14) was the date that Mark’s father died.  It was early in the morning when Mark’s sister called to let us know that Bill had passed away.  Okay, a death on our anniversary?  Can we ever have a happy anniversary again?  Well, yes we do!  I must say that this date is memorable for us and we won’t forget (as we both are prone to do) the date his father died.

Fast forward to June 22, 2014.  Mother passed away.  I don’t think that I will ever forget that date.  But Mother was true to form in making events even more memorable than one could think possible.  She died on what would have been the 40th anniversary with my first husband, Gary.  Uncanny?  Coincidence?  Divine planning?  Who knows!  But how often has this happened?

Some of you know that Donna and I share a birthday.  I was her birthday present, one she can’t send back, when she was eight.  Again Mother made an event even more special!

Strange happenings in this example of country living!