Welcome to my 2nd official blog post! I am dedicating this blog to our lovely friends, Kip and Wendy Thompson who started the ‘nudge’ to get almost the entire Dow Midland group together for a 20 year reunion. If you know anything about the lovely town of Midland, MI, it is pretty far from any major city, the town revolves around Dow Chemical and Dow Corning (before it was acquired), it has great charm and really caters to young families. In the late 80’s into early 2000’s about 20-26 of us young ‘Gen X’er/early Boomer’s’ really became close friends. We rotated themed parties of the month, helped each other out whether from a recent flood or to save $ by taking off the roof before the new one was put on, celebrated engagements, holidays, new babies, new houses, etc. By early 2000 most of us had either been transferred out by the company or found other opportunities more promising. By and large it had been about 20 years since the whole group came back together and prompted by the Thompson’s this took place in May 2017.
Here is our group – and what an amazing weekend. Coordinating with all of the friends who resided in Houston (quite a few) we had houses to stay in, wonderful food to share, great reminiscing and catching up on everyone’s family. The best part was that we just picked up right where we left off – like we had never left Midland.
On the last day of our reunion, we had breakfast at this lovely place in Houston and the topic of being adopted, DNA testing came up. My dear friend Robin Greene who is the kind of person who would give you the shirt off her back, always gives great advice and is the glue that keeps in touch with everyone and maintains our bond with the group, let me know that her Mom is a ‘search angel’. A search angel is a person who donates their time and great searching skills volunteering to help you find your family. What a blessing it was to connect with Ms. Mary! She was in the process of moving so it wasn’t until late July that we started working on my family tree. More to come in the next blog… 🙂