All aboard! Firstly, very warm wishes for your birthday, Debbie! You're always going to seem 37 to us, because that's how old you were when we first met you at the foster parent orientation meeting in 1995.
There are so many stories to recall that are noteworthy of Debbie. One that always makes us smile took place at the time we were foster parenting our son Frank (who was 7 and is now 18), and Debbie and Liz were foster parenting Daniel, and we were planning on moving into central Austin from the outer suburbs. When Debbie heard about this, she arranged for us to meet with a friend of hers who is a realtor (and a wonderful one at that - Geri) to look for houses. Well we were surprised to learn we had boarded the Debbie train that weekend when we met with Geri, who had been instructed by Debbie to only show us homes within a 2 or 3 mile radius of Debbie and Liz's house so that we could be close by! It was after seeing 5 or 6 houses in a neighborhood we weren't certain about that we found out the plan. Over the years there were many other instances when we just simply needed to show up and find out what Debbie had planned for us to do. Later on I told Debbie it was kind of nice to go over to see them, because I felt that everything would be okay, as Debbie always had a plan prepared for whatever the circumstance was at hand.
It's nice to know there are lots of other passengers on the Debbie train, and we've thoroughly enjoyed getting to know our fellow passengers, and of course the Engineer and her Conductor Liz!
Hugs,
Bryan and Scott (and Frank)
P.S. We were told once that you "can't fart in this town without Debbie knowing about it," and I guess that now applies to the entire Southwest .
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