{"id":1022,"date":"2020-02-12T20:53:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T20:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianwayfarm.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2020-02-12T21:08:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:08:36","slug":"a-tribute-to-mama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianwayfarm.com\/dev\/a-tribute-to-mama\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to Mama"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" February is always that month that just feels in between\u2014in between the holidays and in between Spring.\u00a0 Many wonder how we spend our winter months in the Corley household. \u00a0Recently we showed photos of Milt working on one of his endless tasks, fixing some of the 250+ tires on the farm, but I spend lots of the winter months in my office.\u00a0 We have plenty of paperwork to take care of the farm business, but for nearly 30 years, I have operated an accounting\/bookkeeping business from our home.\u00a0When I left a job for maternity leave at the birth of Jennifer and Craig, I never went back on anyone\u2019s payroll.\u00a0 God has blessed me with dozens of clients over the years and that job has always provided just what we needed as we helped this business grow.\u00a0 So winter becomes my crunch time.\u00a0 Preparing w-2\u2019s and 1099\u2019s for my clients while I get their books in order for their tax preparers to finish tax returns.\u00a0 It becomes another \u201cbusy time\u201d at the farm for me!<\/p>\n

While February is that \u201ctax season\u201d month for me, and Valentine\u2019s Day, and cold winter days, it has another special meaning to us.\u00a0 My Mama\u2019s birthday is February 12.\u00a0 Born in 1934 in East Tennessee, Mama married my Daddy in 1953.\u00a0 She took care of things at home while my Daddy finished school at University of Tennessee and Purdue University.\u00a0 They took off for Iowa when Daddy went to work for John Deere and then he was drafted.\u00a0 The Army took them to \u00a0El Paso and Connecticut while he did his three year tour and then back to Iowa they went.\u00a0 Our little family moved back to East Tennessee when I was about 6 years old and Mama went on doing what Mama loved doing\u2014taking care of her family.\u00a0 Daddy went to work at Eastman Kodak and Mama took care of us.\u00a0 Our evenings and weekends were family time and we traveled all over the United States in the summers.\u00a0 We camped and fished and spent many a day in the garden at our house or the grandparents.\u00a0 And Mama taught us to sew and cook.\u00a0 We learned how to snap green beans and bake fresh apple pies.\u00a0 When we grew up, Mama found other babies to rock and care for as she cared for nephews then soon a grandchild.<\/p>\n

When my twins were born, my Mama came and spent lots of days helping me adjust to being not just a new mom but a mom of two!\u00a0 She cleaned and cooked and rocked and encouraged.\u00a0 And she loved.\u00a0 Just like all the other children who came across Mama\u2019s lap, all her grandchildren knew Grandmom\u2019s love.\u00a0 You couldn\u2019t get enough of it.\"\"<\/p>\n

When the Lord brought my family to Western Kentucky, Mama and Daddy spent lots of time with us.\u00a0 In between their travels around the country and going back to East Tennessee to take care of things at home, Mama and Daddy were here every chance they got.\u00a0 Daddy (Granddad) spent long hours helping on the farm (and that will have to be another story maybe in June for his birthday month) and Mama did what she loved to do.\u00a0 She transported grandchildren back and forth to school.\u00a0 They always took trips to Lic\u2019s for ice cream.\u00a0 And every child loved climbing in the big blue recliner with Grandmom to read stories, play games or just cuddle.\u00a0 It\u2019s just what you did.<\/p>\n

And Mama kept taking care of all of us.\u00a0 Through all the years of balancing an accounting business, being a Mother myself, a wife and starting a farm business, I could have never made it all happen without the loving help from Mama.\u00a0 She encouraged, she listened, she cried with me and we laughed together about all the crazy adventures of this life.\u00a0 She\u2019s the example I looked to as a woman who loved her family fiercely and would do whatever it takes to meet their needs.<\/p>\n

I know beyond a shadow of doubt that my Mama spent many hours praying for me.\u00a0 She worried like all mothers do that I worked too hard, and I know she was disappointed when her health kept her from coming to help like she wanted to.\u00a0 But there is nothing like telling your Mama about your successes and seeing the pride on her face.\u00a0 She told everybody she knew about this little farm in Western Kentucky called Christian Way Farm.<\/p>\n

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October 18, 2017, Mama\u00a0stepped out of this world into her new home with Jesus.\u00a0 And certainly a piece of our hearts went with her.\u00a0 I rejoice that Mama is no longer in pain and I\u2019m envious that she gets to walk with Jesus in His Heavenly home, but we surely miss her and February 12 is always a bittersweet day now.\u00a0 Mama\u2019s having a grand party and we will join her one day, but for now we will remember how Mama loved us.<\/p>\n

I know that if Mama were still here, she would be helping clean up the dishes, or doing the laundry, or folding brochures, or whatever task she could do to help us keep this home and farm going.\u00a0 Thank you Mama for the investment you made in me, our family and Christian Way Farm.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure you are telling Jesus that you need Him to watch over us and He is.\u00a0 Hug Jesus tight for me, Mama.\u00a0 And we will see you again someday soon.\u00a0 Thanks for watching out for us.\u00a0 This family and Christian Way Farm have much to thank you for!\u00a0 We love you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February is always that month that just feels in between\u2014in between the holidays and in between Spring.\u00a0 Many wonder how we spend our winter months in the Corley household. \u00a0Recently we showed photos of Milt working on one of his endless tasks, fixing some of the 250+ tires on the farm, but I spend lots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[62,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianwayfarm.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianwayfarm.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianwayfarm.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianwayfarm.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianwayfarm.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christianwayfarm.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/christianwayfarm.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianwayfarm.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianwayfarm.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianwayfarm.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianwayfarm.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}