Welcome to Franaticlife.com

My name is Frances Bray, but most call me Fran, hence the chosen title for this site.

I won't delve to far into my history and life because your going to get to know me along the way but here's the bones of it. 

I was born and raised in Danville, Virginia as the baby of seven. Three boys, four girls. Crazy right! 

I had your typical 80's/90's upbringing where we came home when the street light came on. We played at the creek and rode bikes. We talked on a phone with the longest cord known to man because we had to stretch the CORDED phone around the corner to get any privacy. We played hard and got dirty and lived pretty simply compared to now a days. 

As good as it was, like many teenagers I couldn't wait to bust out of this small town. I joined the US Navy at 17 and off I went... Boot Camp, Hospital Corpsman School, then Pensacola, Florida as my first "grueling" duty station haha. This is where I found myself learning to adult with a new husband at 20 and a new baby boy at 21. My baby girl came later at 23 and with a new adventure to Beaufort, SC. I know I know...these duty stations are horrible! I love that my babies were born in beach towns! 

We went from Navy to army when my hubby decided to try his hand at flying and so there we were in a whirlwind life as a helicopter family. It was fun, deployments not so much.

The distance was difficult & Jeramy & I divorced after 15 years of marriage, each married another & then divorced for the second time. FAST FORWARD...Two divorces, 10 years lost between Jeramy and I, and one grandbaby later, Jeramy & I sit on the couch in our Pensacola home watching old digitized home movies thinking how surreal it is that that we found our way back to each other and loving the feeling of home that that brings. Here's to our forever!