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Kathryn Hall Cape I think it's important for you to understand I'm just a simple woman who happened to have been given an extraordinary task!! So I'll begin introducing my family to you....starting, of course, with ME. ................. I've been happily married to the same man since December 23, 1975. My husband, Jim, and I had three daughters who grew up and gave us nine (yes, NINE) grandchildren.....five girls and four boys......who you'll get to know later.....if you decide you want to, that is.... ummmmmmm.......I came from a large family....four sisters and five brothers....I'd have to stop and do some serious counting to tell you how many nieces and nephews I have!!!! ......I love my God above all and my family next!! I appreciate more than ever the wonderful friends I've met along life's way.. FINALLY.......all I really want out of life now is to find God's perfect will for me and JUST DO IT!! I never planned to be a Mom again....this is just the way it turned out........My daughter needed help, seeing she had two older children and Jimma was truly a 24/7 baby.... Iam now trying desperately to find God's perfect will in my life....my life MUST count for HIM!!.....sooo. I stumble along...trying to find where it is my feet will take me now............. ok...enough for now, I think.......

A DREAM OF PENCILS...

January 5, 2012
Posted by Kathryn Hall Cape on Tuesday, March 8, 2011
A DREAM..Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011
I was having much trouble sleeping..due to pain, both mentally and physically. Finally, about six o’clock, I fell asleep….and dreamed…
I was in a strange place….hilly…with strangers surrounding me…languages were being spoken that I couldn’t understand. Someone told me that my Jimma had died and had been buried somewhere amid the hills. I began feverishly searching…..I came to myself digging in a very dry area….dust so thick it seemed hard to breath. I thought I saw my baby and reached down to pick her up….What I thought to be Jimma turned into a cardboard figure…and crumbled. I began crying….searching….asking along the way…whoever would listen….where is my angel?….what am I to do? …..I then came to a place that was very muddy. I sank into the mud…up to my ankles….up to my knees….as I dug deeper into the mire to find where it was my Jimma was buried. Again, I looked around me….shoulder weighed heavily….so hard to breath….the weight of needing to know was so great. Sad…dejected….I looked around me at the rolling hills. Where I stood was red dirt … afar off … I saw green grass .. And strangers….
I began to walk away….and then I heard “Mommy”. I turned to see her…..running to catch up to me. I said, ‘Jimma…Oh…there you are, baby!!!’ She was soo beautiful!! Her face shone bright….her curly locks pulled up in pony tails the way I used to fix it for her. Her honey colored hair shone as though each strand was brushed with sunshine. In her hands, she held a pretty container. In the container was pencils….with flowers .. Whether placed randomly or growing from the container, I do not know…but the flowers made me think of a bouquet …not midst the pencils….but…a bouquet of flowers with pencils. She said, ‘Mommy, here are your pencils!’….I knelt down…picked up a pencil .. Then another .. Tossing them and said, ‘But, baby, these aren’t my pencils’…..She said, ‘Mommy, here are your pencils’….‘these are your pencils’………..



 

JUST A LITTLE TALK...

January 5, 2012


Posted by Kathryn Hall Cape on Sunday, January 30, 2011
Just a little talk with my angel before I go to sleep….
Posted on August 15, 2010 by kcape
Jimma…I just wanna talk to you for a little while..k? babygirl……Your picture…remember the one we took just before I climbed into bed beside you and settled down for the night?…You were already settled in, wrapped up in your very own o-so-soft blankie..the blue one..and I said, OK, sweetie, just one picture of my sweet babygirl b...
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OUR SEVENTH GRANDCHILD..

January 5, 2012
Posted on July 13, 2010 by kcape
On June 16, 2002 our seventh grandchild was born. She was such a special child….not because she was born with a rare metabolic disorder called 3 methylglutaconic aciduria type IV….not because her disabilities caused her to be unable to walk….not even because she lived seven wonderful years when her doctors didn’t expect her to live at all. Jimma was special in a way that we all should strive to be.. You see……Jimma gave and received love without con...
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searching……

January 5, 2012
Posted on July 10, 2010 by kcape
Hi, well here I am!! At age 53….trying to find myself! I’ve led a fairly eventful life…going from one episode to another…as most folks do. We married young, my husband and I, we were only 18. We started our family after only eleven months and it has since been on…as they say. Until June 16, 2002 our lives were fairly normal. We became grandparents at age 39……the first six seemed to come in rapid succession..healthy..robust little rascals...
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I'M SORRY, BABY...

January 5, 2012
Posted by Kathryn Hall Cape on Wednesday, January 12, 2011
I'm so ashamed of myself, Jimma! I haven't had the strength during this last holiday season to post the entries I had planned....I really thought that, somehow, it would get..easier???....Or that I would have grown stronger...or wiser. But, sad to say, darling...that's not the case with Mommy! I worked so hard the entire season...decorating...cleaning.....shopping...

Everywhere I went...I saw things you'd enjoy....toys....clot...

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ANOTHER CHRISTMAS SEASON...

January 5, 2012
Posted by Kathryn Hall Cape on Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Sweet Jimma, I just have the need..again...to talk to you. I've been sharing what happened with some new friends....on a site called Inspire. I was really surprized at the response I got when I started talking about you! But maybe I shouldn't have been, huh? ....anybody who ever met you fell in love with you.......that's not gonna end just because you're not here with me anymore, is it? It's about 3:30 in the morning....we saw ...
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WAITING.....WONDERING

January 5, 2012
Posted by Kathryn Hall Cape on Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Sweet Jimma, I just have the need..again...to talk to you. I've been sharing what happened with some new friends....on a site called Inspire. I was really surprized at the response I got when I started talking about you! But maybe I shouldn't have been, huh? ....anybody who ever met you fell in love with you.......that's not gonna end just because you're not here with me anymore, is it? It's about 3:30 in the morning....we saw this ti...
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A WHOLE YEAR....how did it get by me?

January 5, 2012
Posted by Kathryn Hall Cape on Monday, September 20, 2010 Under: tackling grief

This is the day I've been dreading!!! .....a year has passed since my Jimma went Home.... Time has taken on a different meaning for me in this last year... It's like forever .........

I've been almost sick at the thought of a year marking Jimma's passing....it has felt almost like a betrayal....like I was walking away from her....somehow.... I can't really explain it right now...I don't have enough unders...

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GOOD MORNING, BABY GIRL

January 5, 2012

Posted by Kathryn Hall Cape on Friday, August 20, 2010
Today marks the eleventh month since that fateful day....that day I wish I could erase from my memory....O that time could have ceased!!!! ....or that it was a horrible dream......YES....maybe it is a dream...a horrible dream.....

I'm gonna wake up now....I open my eyes.... and find my little curly-haired girl next to me...I see her working to get a hold on my hair...she loved to surprize me awake by tugging on my hair when she woke before...

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A TRIP TO DUKE WITHOUT YOU.....

January 5, 2012

Posted by Kathryn Hall Cape on Wednesday, July 7, 2010
I had an appointment to go to Duke University Hospital to see an eye doctor. They say I need another surgery..and possibly a cornea transplant. That news wasn't the hard part of the trip! You see, Jimma had to make regular trips there to see her metabolic doctor (Dr. Koeberl) .... Everything about the trip brought a flood of memories....It seems that every turn we made I could see the ghosts of the past. I remember, when Jimma got older, ...
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