Welcome
to

Shot's Website

This is the story of my family and myself. I have met so many
wonderful people in the last few years on the Internet.
I'm one who totally supports a positive experience on the Internet.

Before we get to Shot's story, I (the webmaster)..hehehehehe
have a few words about her.
She spends most of her time helping her friends and family. She's the most giving and caring woman I know. I'm so proud to call her my friend, my husband Albert58 and I went across USA two summers ago and met Shot and her family. I'll never forget the days we spent with them her kids and grand kids and ElsieMae & Lisa are the best, so cool, and such hospitality. I wish we weren't so far away from Kentucky, but we are, clear on the Coast of Washington State. :) Thank goodness for the Internet. ;)

The name of this page is A Glow of Hope, we have to be able to see the hope that lives in our hearts, and we must never shut it out.
When all else fails, there's always hope.
If it weren't for my family & friends I don't know what I'd do.

I'm Norma aka Shotsie and I'm 50 years old & this page is about me.

I graduated in 1972 from North Central High School, and shortly after that got married and started my family. I have two children, Lisa & Billy, that's all I wanted was one son and one daughter. I figured in this cruel world that's all that was necessary. When my daughter Lisa was born I was so tickled. I didn't have any sisters and this made it more special to me. She was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, September 11, 1973. She weighed 5 lbs. 10 oz. and when she was almost one year old we moved back to Ohio where I was born and raised.  My son BIlly was born in Toledo, Ohio, September 17 1976. He was born premature, almost 2 months early and talk about a scare.  I was scared to death.  It was a battle but he was born...I love my kids more than life itself and I always will.  They are my life. I tried through out their lives to protect them from the cruelty of the worked and yes maybe I tried too hard.  As they say, I worry to much, well that is me and at least I cared what happened to my kids.  And to this day, I still worry. ;)

I had other kids over all the time and tried to do the best I could keeping them busy and playing sports with them, wow, then before I knew it they were all grown up and I could no longer protect them like I wanted too, but as a parent I still tried. I had a bad experience that rocked my world for the first time. A little girl that I babysat for in my younger years was killed in a car wreck, wow had time passed. I still thought of her as a little one. She was 30, married and left 2 kids behind. Walking into the Funeral Home was devastating to me. She was a grown woman and for some odd reason I was shocked, my mind was staying at the younger years and I couldn't get it through my head that she was all grown up.  Her name was Rosa Faye, she was like my little sister and what a blow to my life that was.  That started my depressions and panic attacks, what a fight that was for me, and still is.

Then later in life my first granddaughter was born, her name is Taby, she is 11 years old now and then there is Haley, she is 7, she was second born, then Hannah, she is 6 and my son's baby.  They are all so spoiled (hahahahaha) as most Grandkids are. ;)

This is Haley & Tabby

This is Hannah

Crissy and Hannah
(This is Billys Family

I have had several surgeries and learned to take one day at a time.
Boy it's rough getting older, let me tell ya. I have Emphysema, I've had two neck surgeries. The neck injury was a result of a car accident.  They had to take a bone out of my hip to try to fix my neck, ouch.....that really hurt.  It didn't work and I wasn't up to par for a third so I live the best I can with that. I have had a Hysterectomy, I have Diverticllitis, I've had Gallbladder surgery...I have Interestial cyctitus of the bladder and had three surgeries in one.  It didn't work so they had to do another surgery to correct that surgery.  I have had one more surgery of injections to the bladder and in September 2002, I will have another one and in December will have yet another one.  I have Laposcopic surgery before the hysterectomy and they found, endometriosis and that was a very painful surgery, with the hysterectomy, took a while to heal from that.

I'm going through a divorce, from my first husband, He was the love of my life, since I was 12 years old...days are slow and nights are very slow here for me. Some days there's sleep and some days there's not but we have to deal with life as it comes. God sees that ya make it if your strong enough.

I still have my Mother, my Father passed away this past year.
, I'm having trouble dealing with his death. I really miss him, I also had an Uncle that passed away from cancer I just have to count my blessings that I do have.

I was born July 21st in Bryan, Ohio, and have 4 brothers. Their names are, Jr., James, Hank and Doug, me of course being smack in the middle.

If tears could build a stairway
and memories a lane
I'd walk right up to heaven
and bring you home again.....

I wish it was possible to do what the above poem says
I have lost a lot of loved ones, too many....it's tough but
I do have reasons to remain here, my grandkids and daughter
and all my great friends.