The Magnolia Story (Fixer Upper Show: Bonus Content) by Chip Gaines & Joanna Gaines & Mark Dagostino

Author:Chip Gaines & Joanna Gaines & Mark Dagostino [Gaines, Chip & Gaines, Joanna & Dagostino, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Television Performers, Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Literature, Actors & Entertainers, Book Reference, the founders of Magnolia Homes, Magnolia Market, Magnolia Realty in Waco Texas., host HGTV’s Fixer Upper, Joanna: lead designer, Chip handles construction, simple and hardworking, home at the center, Self-Help, Business & Money, Business Life, Personal Success, Leaders & Notable People, Rich & Famous, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles, Christian Living, personal journey
Publisher: Thomas Nelson; 1 edition
Published: 2016-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

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CHIPPING IN

As I mentioned earlier, my mom and dad grew up in Archer City, Texas, a town of maybe two thousand people. When compared to Archer City, Waco would have been like the big city where you would come see a movie on the weekend or something.

My parents aren’t ashamed to tell anybody that their whole group of friends in that town were all poor growing up, but my dad was the poorest kid of the bunch. He lived in what would be the equivalent of the projects in that town, and the government paid a portion of the rent for the apartment where he grew up.

His mom, my grandma, was a single mom raising two kids back in the day. In a town where everybody was broke, they were known as the poor family. So to my dad, my mom seemed like a rich girl just because her dad was a rancher and they had a house and some cows.

The two of them started dating in the eighth grade, and their small-town romance never let up. In those days, in that town, just a few folks had gone to college; no one’s mom had gone to college. Nobody even thought about college, and even if they had wanted to go, no one could have afforded it. College wasn’t really an option.

My dad would probably have graduated high school and become a mechanic or something like that. But then he started playing football, and he was good at it. He received a football scholarship to the University of New Mexico, and the whole world opened up to him.

He went off to Albuquerque, and to his small-town mind it was as big of a change as moving to Las Vegas or New York might be to somebody else. I mean, to him it was just the coolest place in the world. He got himself out of Texas for the first time ever and started learning about who he really was. The school was in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), which played Hawaii, so he got to go to Hawaii. Twice. Before that, he had never even been on a plane!

My mom stayed in Texas and wound up going to a nearby college called Midwestern State. She and Dad carried on a long-distance relationship for two years. Then she transferred to UNM so they could be together—the football star and the cheerleader, the polar opposite of Jo’s parents in many ways.

When my dad stayed on as a fifth-year senior, they got married, and my older sister, Shannon, came along shortly thereafter.

My dad was so excited and motivated by sports and athletics that, after he graduated, he opened a sporting goods store there in Albuquerque, the city where I was born in 1974. My parents tell me that even way back then I had a way of making friends with just about everybody, and I always wanted to do things for others. I was always asking my mom for money to give the homeless people we passed on the streets.

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