{"id":5598,"date":"2012-12-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.195.175\/index.php\/2012\/12\/31\/man-gives-ailing-wife-a-surprise-white-christmas\/"},"modified":"2012-12-31T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T05:00:00","slug":"man-gives-ailing-wife-a-surprise-white-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodworldnews.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/31\/man-gives-ailing-wife-a-surprise-white-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gives ailing wife a surprise white Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5597\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.195.175\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/0555bbe9368a05bff51437bdc1ff702e.jpg\" alt=\"- Image Credit: Gray Whitley \/ The Wilson Times\" class=\"caption\" title=\"Kevin and Laurie Pearson at their house after the wonderful surprise\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" \/>\n<p>Some people will do anything they can for the one that they love.\u00a0 All Laurie Pearson wanted this year was a beautiful white Christmas.\u00a0 Her husband Kevin was going to make sure that happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn August we found out her cancer had metastasized to her bones and brain, so I didn\u2019t think we would have her with us this Christmas,\u2019\u2019 Kevin said in an interview with TODAY.com. \u201cI started racking my brain and came up with an idea. I just wanted her to be happy because I was afraid this will be her last Christmas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He couldn&#8217;t make the skies turn cold and the snow to flutter down over their home in Wilson, NC, which rarely gets snow, but he had another idea.\u00a0 Kevin hired a local Raleigh, NC company called <a title=\"Snow My Yard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.snowmyyard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snow My Yard<\/a>., a part of Greater Raleigh Refrigeration. They came out and covered the couple&#8217;s yard in snow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a glow on her face and then she smiled and said, \u2018What have you done now?\u2019 The look on her face, that was my Christmas. I just wanted to see that happiness on her face.\u2019\u2019 Kevin stated.<\/p>\n<p>The neighborhood kids and family had a blast in the snow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/tdy-121227-xmas-wish-5.380;380;7;70;0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Laurie&#8217;s niece, Kyleigh, playing in the surprise snow. &#8211; Image Credit: Janice Jones<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe always says it\u2019s the little things that make the biggest difference, and she lives each day to make a difference,\u2019\u2019 Laurie&#8217;s sister-in-law Janice Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Peace &amp; Love,<\/p>\n<p>Jon<\/p>\n<p>The Good World News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people will do anything they can for the one that they love.\u00a0 All Laurie Pearson wanted this year was a beautiful white Christmas.\u00a0 Her husband Kevin was going to make sure that happened.\u00a0 \u201cIn August we found out her cancer had metastasized to her bones and brain, so I<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodworldnews.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/31\/man-gives-ailing-wife-a-surprise-white-christmas\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":5597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2859],"tags":[2903,2889,2964],"class_list":["entry","author-jon","post-5598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-random-good-news","tag-love","tag-marriage","tag-surprise"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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