Sarina Lee Weibling Drury |
I was born January 31, 1972 in Kansas City, Kansas to Cecil Ross and Yvonneda Lee (Henry) Weibling. I am the youngest of their two children. My older brother is Edward Rollie Weibling. My dad joined the Air Force when I was fairly young. During the 6 years that he was in the military we lived in Denver,Colorado; Fort Walton Beach, Florida; Okinawa,Japan; and The Philippines. We then moved back to Kansas City, Kansas. I was 9 years old at this time. My parents were divorced shortly thereafter. My brother and I lived with our dad. We spent every other weekend with our mom. It was tough for us emotionally and financially, but our parents did an awesome job of getting along with each other. My dad worked very hard to make enough money to keep us fed and clothed. The weekends with our mom were fun and it was good to see her. Being a girl it was hard not having my mom there in the same house with me every day. December 15, 1984 my dad remarried. They had my sister, Savannah and my brother, Richard. It was neat having a younger sister and brother. I had alot of fun times with them watching them grow and learn how to walk and talk. Right before my senior year in high school started, I decided I wanted to go live with my mom. I wanted to enjoy some time with her before I was officially an "adult". She had remarried shortly after the divorce. I moved in with them and lived there for a little while, until they wanted to move to Wichita, Kansas. I then moved in with my mom's parents for the remainder of my senior year in high school. After high school, I got a job working at a video store. I continued working there and living with my grandparents. I then met my husband William Dale Drury Jr. We dated for 7 months, and then got married. It was love at first sight! We were married on June 22, 1991. About two years later we decided we wanted to start trying to have our first child. Our son, William Dale Drury III was born on October 3, 1994. He is 8 years old now, in the 2nd grade and on the honor roll! I am so proud of him!
We had orginally planned on having two children, but due to a very rare event during my first pregnancy we have decided against having more. During my first pregnancy, my left eye started to black out and would only stay that way for about 30 seconds or so. This didn't happen real often, just occassionally through about the last half of my pregnancy. I was so happy to be pregnant and about to have a baby and the fact that this didn't happen real often, I kept forgetting to mention it to my doctor. On February 13, 1995 I woke up and my left eye was blacked out again. I remember asking my husband not to leave for work until the sight came back. (I expected it to come back because it always had in the past!) The sight never returned. The doctors said what happened was when a woman is pregnant her blood tends to clot more than normal. This usually doesn't cause problems but in my case it blinded my left eye. A blood clot got lodged in the main artery that leads to my retina and blocked the blood flow causing my left eye to be permanently blind. Fear of something like that happening again has made our decision to not have anymore children. It is now going on 12 years of marriage for my husband and I. I'm one of the luckier ones in the world. I couldn't have asked for a more loyal, hard working, caring, loving, and AWESOME husband!
March of 2002, my aunt Denise and I started working on The Weibling Family Tree website. I cannot believe the amount of information and new people that we have found. My dad was adopted, so I don't have the Weibling blood. Sometimes while working on this web site, I find myself thinking "Wait a minute, I'm not even genetically related, why do I get SO excited about new findings?" Then I remind myself, no matter if I have the Weibling blood or not, I AM a Weibling. My grandpa, Richard Max Weibling adopted my dad and raised him as his own. God intended for me to be a Weibling or that wouldn't have happened. I truly believe that. Working on The Weibling Family Tree with Denise has been so much fun! We laugh, we cry, we are amazed -- together. I believe this has brought her and I alot closer (what I mean by this is instead of talking just occassionally on the phone, we now both have the phone permanently attatched to our ear). And if you've never met Denise, she's a VERY awesome lady! UPDATE: It is now February 22, 2005. My family and I are doing well. My son is now 10 and in the 4th grade. He is still doing awesome in school! My husband and I are going on 14 years of marriage! Time flies when you're having fun! I am so excited for the upcoming Weibling Reunion in July. It will be awesome to meet everyone! I know we will all have a wonderful time. I know that I never imagined I had so much family around the world. I can't wait to put faces to the many people Denise has told me about. Hope to see you all there!
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~ Sarina Lee
Weibling Drury ~ |
