BOTL Brothers & Sisters,
Where do I start, . . .
First, . .
Cheers and Thank you to my Babe. He is the type of person that would never take credit for anything. But, it’s because of him, there is this incredible community of brothers & sisterhood. Without him knowing he built a family. BOTL Family.
I don’t know all of the details but I know that when Babe and I met, he was starting up this place. Throughout the years, there were these amazing family reunions. The ones I remember the most are the ones to NICARAGUA. Babe spoke about Operation Esteli. One thing I did notice was that he was always behind the camera, hardly infront. Made me admire him even more.
Now, this is from me, Maria Gretencord.
In reality, I’m a nobody in this community. All I did was kept paying for the lights to stay on. I kept doing it because of my beloved husband. BOTL was his baby. And now, I had to make decisions on what I can keep up with. Making decisions can hurt the people around you or can better the situation. This was a hard decision to make. I spoke to Babe about it, I cried about it. I told Mikey that I felt like I was letting everyone down. My lack of funds is killing my Babes baby. The reality is that there was two incomes coming in and now it’s only one. It sucks. But this is what it is. I’m sorry.
I also want to Thank you all. Y’all let me vent. Y’all heard my screams, my cries. I was able to express myself with this family than with my own siblings.
Babe’s one year anniversary is coming up and his birthday as well… I’m not ready for this but it’s coming a little too fast.
Babe is gone. I saw him pass away. But my heart says he’s going to walk through my door at any moment. My heart is waiting for him. I am not ok, I will never be ok. I’ve said this several times. But eventually my heart will get used to the fact that Baby isn’t coming back and maybe I will start to heal. I started some new habits. I needed to do something new in my life. And with these new changes, I started to sleep again. I have a whole years worth of sleep to catch up on. I am being selfish. This is my way of putting myself back together.
If y’all ever in Houston, I’ll have a cold beer ready for y’all.
Now, we raise our beers or bourbon glasses . . .
To Babe, to E, to 21yrs of BOTL, to all BOTL brothers & sisters
Lots of Love,
Eric & Maria Gretencord
Where do I start, . . .
First, . .
Cheers and Thank you to my Babe. He is the type of person that would never take credit for anything. But, it’s because of him, there is this incredible community of brothers & sisterhood. Without him knowing he built a family. BOTL Family.
I don’t know all of the details but I know that when Babe and I met, he was starting up this place. Throughout the years, there were these amazing family reunions. The ones I remember the most are the ones to NICARAGUA. Babe spoke about Operation Esteli. One thing I did notice was that he was always behind the camera, hardly infront. Made me admire him even more.
Now, this is from me, Maria Gretencord.
In reality, I’m a nobody in this community. All I did was kept paying for the lights to stay on. I kept doing it because of my beloved husband. BOTL was his baby. And now, I had to make decisions on what I can keep up with. Making decisions can hurt the people around you or can better the situation. This was a hard decision to make. I spoke to Babe about it, I cried about it. I told Mikey that I felt like I was letting everyone down. My lack of funds is killing my Babes baby. The reality is that there was two incomes coming in and now it’s only one. It sucks. But this is what it is. I’m sorry.
I also want to Thank you all. Y’all let me vent. Y’all heard my screams, my cries. I was able to express myself with this family than with my own siblings.
Babe’s one year anniversary is coming up and his birthday as well… I’m not ready for this but it’s coming a little too fast.
Babe is gone. I saw him pass away. But my heart says he’s going to walk through my door at any moment. My heart is waiting for him. I am not ok, I will never be ok. I’ve said this several times. But eventually my heart will get used to the fact that Baby isn’t coming back and maybe I will start to heal. I started some new habits. I needed to do something new in my life. And with these new changes, I started to sleep again. I have a whole years worth of sleep to catch up on. I am being selfish. This is my way of putting myself back together.
If y’all ever in Houston, I’ll have a cold beer ready for y’all.
Now, we raise our beers or bourbon glasses . . .
To Babe, to E, to 21yrs of BOTL, to all BOTL brothers & sisters
Lots of Love,
Eric & Maria Gretencord
