Quilt #106 was sewn and donated by Kathy Young. It was presented with love to Annette Facer by Mary Duke.
Mary writes:
When I first saw this quilt that Kathy donated to The Duncan Project, I knew it had to go to my sweet neighbor Annette. She loves chickens and roosters.
Annette has a heart of gold. When she married she struggled with heartbreaking infertility for 5 years. So she and her husband decided to wait on an adoption list that was supposed to be a 4 year wait. After 9 years, they finally got their first son Evan. Later, they were blessed to get two more children. First their daughter Hailee, then a few years later Hailee's little birth brother Kyle was lovingly brought into the family.
They love these kids with all their hearts. They are their own. Annette says that the journey that it took them to get these kids has made her a better mom. She knows she was called to be their mom.
Kyle has a frontal lobe developmental delay that caused ADHD and ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder). As a result he sees 3 specialists and goes to behavioral therapy bi monthly. Annette is especially patient with all that Kyle struggles with. I am in awe with her nurturing and mothering skills. She is loving but firm and he seems to be doing very well with her direction.
Annette is also very unique because she also keeps in touch with the mothers of these 3 great kids she has adopted. In fact, the family is flying to Texas this summer to meet up with the birth mother of 2 of her children.
Annette has so much love and wants to share that love with everyone around her. Annette has a nephew that struggles with addiction and has been in and out of jail several times in the past few years. Although she has had disappointment and heartbreak, and cried many tears over him and others, she feels that others need love, understanding and hope, so she continues to love and take care of his needs and others.
Annette recently shared that she was feeling really sad and unloved, like no one understood her or even knew her name. She said as she walked out of the grocery store she met a young man who asked if she would buy him a cup of coffee. She told him to meet her at Wendy's in a few minutes. She put her groceries in her car, then went to Wendy's and bought this man coffee and dinner. All he could eat. Prior to going in, Annette asked, "What is your name?" In a soft spoken voice her new friend said, "Charles." Then he told her that it had been a really long time since anyone had asked him what his name was. At that moment she felt that he had been an answer to her prayer that day and she had been as answer to his. He melted her heart his humility and gratitude over a simple gesture of kindness.
I felt that Spirit this morning as a wrote this post about Annette. What a generous, loving person. She inspires us to look for small ways to love and lift.
There is love in the stitches for Annette.
