SharivilleLife stories from Shari

Now that we are short timers, soon to head out for the “Wild West,”  I  am thinking of all the wonderful things here in the DFW Metroplex that we will miss.  It has been a wonderful adventure, started out very scary but thanks to all the prayers and wonderful people and the extraordinary heart surgeon, Dr Michael Mack, the nurses at Baylor’s Heart Hospital , and the rehab nurses at Baylor’s Rehab Hospital, our newest adventure has been wonderful.  We have had the most special loving support from our kids, that really saw us thru.  We most of all will miss them, Tommy and Angie, and Felecia and Tyler.  The 4 legged family we will so miss too.  They have become like our own and I treat them so.  They have accepted us unconditionally, and I know they will miss us.  I know we will be in phone contact but it’s just not the same. Ruby won’t be able to tell me how she is, I can tell now by looking at her. Tommy will have to hook us up to the camera on our laptops.  It still wont  be the same.

We have been to so many restaurants, from the very high end, Texas de Brazil, to the many Mexican restaurants , “Rose’s, ” where they have the best taco’s and condiment bar,  and “ Mi Cocina,” where they have the wonderful Mambo Taxi’s   This is a frozen margarita type drink with secret ingredients, and believe me two is the max, or else you could be sorry. They are the best.  The fried pickles at Hooters are great, and Bone Daddy’s has good pulled pork sandwiches, both have scanty dressed , pretty girls to wait on you. . There is of course our good ole standby “ Joe’s,”  they have the best down home country cooking.  They also have a singing waitress that sings Happy Birthday to you on your birthday and she does it in a most unusual manner.  Sooo funny. This week end we are going to try “Babe’s,” a very popular place in Roanoke, a little town nearby.  They specialize in fried chicken and chicken fried steaks.  Guess you can tell we love to try all the different foods in all the areas, esp cultural foods.  We like gourmet restaurants, but who doesn’t and let me tell you Dallas, Fort Worth area is the place to be.  It’s definitely ” Happening Here.” Tommy and Angie have seen to it that we have been totally exposed to the very best of all  here.      And I will miss Sonic drive inn’s, ask Jerry, the best burgers.

I will miss the shopping here, there is everything a person could possibly need and more, esp lots of  speciality places. It’s all available and with same day delivery.  The one thing that really impresses me is the people around here.  Texas folks are wonderful, friendly and most helpful in any manor you need them to be.  They are just polite and accommodating.

Some odd things that I will miss……….like driving the 114 or the 121 after dark and watching the jumbo jets lining up to land at DFW airport. Often there are 5 and 6 coming in at various altitudes,  the landing gear is down and all the headlights are ablaze.,at the same time on the other side of the freeway are various planes departing and gaining altitude at various levels.  They fly right over the freeways and it seems like you could just reach up and touch them. I would not want to be a traffic controller here…….I will miss listening to 96.7 Platinum radio show..while driving anywhere…..I will miss the wonderful efficient health care here.  They have their system down pat. The hospitals are beautiful……..I will miss all the beautiful spectacular buildings  in the Metroplex.  It’s really an experience to drive in both cities.  Dallas is very sophisticated, while Forth Worth is laid back and country. I love both cities.  I will just flat miss TEXAS!!  Plain and simple….I will really miss Three Dog Bakery and so will Teddy…..speaking of Teddy his full name is,” Texas Teddy.” We are bringing home a genuine Texas cow dog.  Teddy is a georgous Red Heeler, and as smart as a whip.  His breed is one of the most intelligent dogs there is, really I didn’t just make that up. Teddy is a whole nother blog., soon to be included. He will always be our pride and joy from a Texas street corner.

The saving grace is, is that we will be back.  There is so much here for us and it will always be wonderful to spend time, lots of it here in The Metroplex. Our kids are here after all.

Hello all , happy Halloween. It’s fun here tonight, Felecia, my grandaugter, and her boyfriend Tyler are getting ready to go to a downtown  Fort Worth Club to celebrate, Angie is doing her hair for the occasion.  Here is a picture after hair and makeup.

Today Angie took Jerry and I to lunch at a place called Which Wich.  It’s different from any place we have been before.  You walk in and take a paper bag and on the bag has a choice of sandwiches, and what you want on the sandwich, you mark it pay for it and the sandwich is made according to your directions. Then you pick up the sandwich when they call your name and it’s packaged in the original bag. It’s a really healthy place to eat, they are a lot like Subs only better and more unique.

Yesterday morning we went to Tommy”s shop at 360 Wraps.  It was baby day, and Tommy and Tyler wrapped helmets for 16 different babies.  There were no multiples yesterday, but he has done helmets for quadruplets before.  The reason for the helmets is a condition called Plagiocephaly, it’s misshapen heads for one reason or another, usually happens in the womb with multiples, they just run out of room and get squeezed.  The helmets are worn 23 hours a day.  They cost $3,600 each .  They come  in plain white, made of medical plastic material and are adjustable.   The kids wear these helmets from 2 to 6 mos. and it takes about 4 months to correct the condition.  Tommy got into this helmet wrapping because a desperate father came in asking if Tommy could wrap his kids helmet with something colorful, it seems sibblings and other people kind of stared as in plain white it did make it look like a medical device and the babies stood out and the sibblings made fun of it.  Well, this has become Tommy and Angie’s charity, as they do not charge for this and to this day Tommy and Tyler have wrapped 95 helmets.  The parents are so delighted and now their babies are so admired.  It’s fun for them to pick a design and color with the babies name on the helmets.  It’s now a status symbol for what otherwise was a stigma. Now they have to have an appointment and Tommy devotes one day a month to do the babies, and he does it for free.  Click here for more info www.wrapbuddies.com.  We were lucky enough to get to be here for baby day and it was fun.  The parents bring food like a pot luck of finger foods, everyone shares and it’s a real event.  These parents are so happy with this, and it’s increasing all the time by word of mouth.  It’s amazing how many babies have this condition.  All the parents bring camera’s and photograph the process and then want a picture with Tommy holding the babies.  This way Tommy gets his baby fix too.

We did find a place for the trailer just down the street from the kids.  It’s not perfect, but it’s great to be so close.  That way when Jerry is in the hospital, and the Doc said from 7 to 9 days.  It won’t have far to drive to the kids.   Tommy is letting us use the Scion while we are here.

Well that’s all that’s new for now, each day something goes on here.    More later…Hugs  S and J