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Grammy-nominated artists Joey and Rory Feek are gearing upfor Monday’s big awards show. While the country duo finally earned their firstnomination for best country duo performance this year, they will be watching the award show from Alexandria,Indiana, where Joey remains in hospice battling cancer.
“[We will] gather around Joey’s bed and turn thetv-in-the-corner on and watch the Grammy Awards – Joey’s mama and daddy and herthree sisters and their kids – all of us having a big-time together,” Rorywrote on his blog This Life I Live on Friday. “We’ll watch the presentersand performances and scan the cutaways to the audience for our daughters andour manager in the sea of people dressed-to-the-nines for the big night.”
He added, “We will smile at each other and wonder how inthe world we got so blessed. How we’ve come so far without goinganywhere at all.”
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In his new post, the 49-year-old revealed that his ailing wifepurchased him an airline ticket to attend the awards show, however he “cancelled”it. Joey, he revealed is “very fragile right now.” Rory said, “I can’tleave her. I won’t. I have done many foolish things and made lotsof mistakes in my life, but this isn’t going to be one of them. Instead, I will be sitting beside her and cheering on Little Big Town,and Blake Shelton and Charles and all the talented folks who are nominatedin our category and others. It’s an honor for us to just be a partof that night, it truly is.”
Going in the couple's place are Rory’s two eldest daughters froma previous relationship, Heidi and Hopie, along with their manager Aaron Carnahan. WhileRory admitted that he can't imagine his and Joey's names being called as winners, he said, “But then again,Joey and I also couldn’t have imagined us being where we are at all… the goodparts or the bad.”
Rory revealed he will write an acceptance speech, though he said he will run it by his wife as hedoes with all this blog posts. “She will say “it’s beautiful honey," and thengently point out the words I’ve misspelled and let me know if I’ve left offsomething important, or am coming across sounding arrogant or insincere,” hesaid. “I might havethe words that bring characters to life. But my wife has the characterthat brings my words to life.”
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Prior to Monday’s show, the couple will celebrate Valentine’sDay. While the doting husband admitted he would like to share a candle-lit dinner, drinkred wine and grill rib-eyes with his bride, he said, “Those things aren’t ableto happen this year.”
Instead, Rory will take his wife ona trip down memory lane. He said, “My hope this year instead is to hold herhand and take her on a ‘virtual’ walk down memory lane together… withpictures and videos on my laptop.”
“I want to take her back to where ourlives first began together, and relive this beautiful journey that God hastaken us on… from that first song she heard me sing at the Bluebird cafe, tothe last one we sang together as we stood on stage and took our final bow…to the songs that she will leave behind here on earth and the ones shewill soon sing for eternity to our sweet Lord in that heavenly choir up yonder,”Rory continued. “And I’m hoping for a few soft kisses. The passion foreach other that Joey and I once had has been replaced by the sweetest, gentlestkisses."
He added, “I live for those kisses. Theyare enough.”