Fantastic News!
The local radio interview went really well, and I got to break my personal good news over the air...
My grown daughter, 44 and living in rural northern Maine, attending college there, has had a rough time in life. She raised three wonderful children alone after her Vietnam vet husband died of a massive coronary on Thanksgiving Day, 1997. Up until 1999, when we retired to Rocky Mount, we helped her out as much as we could although she is fiercely independent. (Wonder where she gets that?).
Cathie lives in an old farmhouse on 5 acres, heats with wood, and is frugal with the modest income she receives...which now is sharply decreasing as her children come of age, graduate college, and leave home. She has only 15-year-old Anna at home now. But Cathie never complains, she's a very positive person who finds joy in a sunrise and exercise in shoveling foot-deep snowfalls every winter.
After her husband died, Cathie began depending on her online widow friends to help her through the night. Then she got in the habit of entering each and every contest she came across online. Her kids and friends teased her, telling her she was wasting her time.
Apparently not.
She has just been officially notified that she won the NASCAR Sweeps, winning a Racing Customized Dodge Charger worth $51,000, a check for $25,700 to pay the taxes and other costs involved, and airfare and hotel costs and spending money totaling another $2,920 with a grand total of over $81,000! They are flying her and her oldest son to Phoenix for the Kasey Kahne (#9 driver) race on November 11th; they'll be there from 10 until 12 November. Her older brother, my son Michael, just finished a year's training in financial advising and he is planning to fly at his own expense from Montana to Phoenix to help her make any decisions.
We are all so happy for her. After a lifetime of hard knocks, I've prayed and prayed that something wonderful would happen for her, but I never would have expected her to win a NASCAR Sweeps prize like this. I know very little about NASCAR and she knows even less. But I'll bet she will end up learning a lot after this event.
I plan to watch the race on November 11th, of course, cheering on Kasey Kahne and watching for Cathie and son Jessie Sherwood being awarded this huge prize.
Being the sensible person she is, I suspect she'll opt for a 4WD SUV rather than a splashy racing Dodge Charger...she'll need something that can stand up to two feet of heavy snow over six inches of solid ice where she lives. Son Michael is already advising her to invest, invest, invest. She says she at least wants to replace some old drafty windows in her ancient farmhouse. I am just so pleased; prayers DO get answered.
My grown daughter, 44 and living in rural northern Maine, attending college there, has had a rough time in life. She raised three wonderful children alone after her Vietnam vet husband died of a massive coronary on Thanksgiving Day, 1997. Up until 1999, when we retired to Rocky Mount, we helped her out as much as we could although she is fiercely independent. (Wonder where she gets that?).
Cathie lives in an old farmhouse on 5 acres, heats with wood, and is frugal with the modest income she receives...which now is sharply decreasing as her children come of age, graduate college, and leave home. She has only 15-year-old Anna at home now. But Cathie never complains, she's a very positive person who finds joy in a sunrise and exercise in shoveling foot-deep snowfalls every winter.
After her husband died, Cathie began depending on her online widow friends to help her through the night. Then she got in the habit of entering each and every contest she came across online. Her kids and friends teased her, telling her she was wasting her time.
Apparently not.
She has just been officially notified that she won the NASCAR Sweeps, winning a Racing Customized Dodge Charger worth $51,000, a check for $25,700 to pay the taxes and other costs involved, and airfare and hotel costs and spending money totaling another $2,920 with a grand total of over $81,000! They are flying her and her oldest son to Phoenix for the Kasey Kahne (#9 driver) race on November 11th; they'll be there from 10 until 12 November. Her older brother, my son Michael, just finished a year's training in financial advising and he is planning to fly at his own expense from Montana to Phoenix to help her make any decisions.
We are all so happy for her. After a lifetime of hard knocks, I've prayed and prayed that something wonderful would happen for her, but I never would have expected her to win a NASCAR Sweeps prize like this. I know very little about NASCAR and she knows even less. But I'll bet she will end up learning a lot after this event.
I plan to watch the race on November 11th, of course, cheering on Kasey Kahne and watching for Cathie and son Jessie Sherwood being awarded this huge prize.
Being the sensible person she is, I suspect she'll opt for a 4WD SUV rather than a splashy racing Dodge Charger...she'll need something that can stand up to two feet of heavy snow over six inches of solid ice where she lives. Son Michael is already advising her to invest, invest, invest. She says she at least wants to replace some old drafty windows in her ancient farmhouse. I am just so pleased; prayers DO get answered.
Labels: NASCAR Sweeps; radio interview
posted by Marion | 6:28 PM
3 Comments:
Marion - I am sure Karma had something to do with it as well. Your daughter sounds like a well-deserved person for such a wonderful prize.
Thanks for sharing her winnings with the rest of us!
Oh Congratulations! What wonderful news!!!! She will have the time of her life; I only wish that you could go with her! Thanks for sharing that story, you made me cry!
That's great news! It's always nice to hear things like this happening.
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