Bee Wright has a lot to be thankful for. She is able to stay at home and raise her family instead of having to go to work. Everyone in her family, including her parents, has been blessed with good health. And she gets the opportunity to go to every OU football game.

"I just love my life right now," Wright said. "I enjoy every day I have."

Since quitting her teaching career 13 years ago to become a full-time mother, Wright, wife to OU football recruiting coordinator and defensive ends coach Bobby Jack Wright, has dedicated her life to her family.

"I felt guilty when I was at work away from my children, and I felt guilty when I was at home because I knew the work was stacking up," Wright said. "I knew my job was mom at home with the family. The Lord really laid that on my heart."

Wright now spends her time raising her three daughters, McKenna, 20, Melia, 17, and Micaelan, 10.

"She really pours herself into the lives of her kids," said Jan King, one of Wright's close friends.

"What can I give to society?" asked Wright. "I can raise three girls who are emotionally healthy...who can contribute something to family, to society."

Despite the time consuming responsibilities her husband has as a coach, Wright said the family sees him often.

"We see him a lot, really," Wright said. "We live all of two minutes from the stadium."

Wright's daughters agree that their dad is around a lot, except during recruiting season.

"During recruiting season, we don't see him for days on end," McKenna said. "But if he's around here too much, we're like, 'Dad, go do something!'"

Being a stay-at-home mother has enabled Wright, an Edna, Texas, native, to homeschool her daughters, beginning when McKenna was in sixth grade, she said. Wright currently homeschools her two younger daughters, while McKenna is a junior at OU.

When Wright is not busy with her family, she spends time working on "small projects."

"When I have that time block, I try to focus on it and give it everything I've got," she said.

Wright said she just finished one such "small project" called The 25 Days of Christmas she and some of her friends put together to ease the holiday season for a family in Austin, Texas. The family, which consists of six children, just found out that the oldest son, who is 22, has Hodgkin's disease, Wright said.

Another factor of Wright's generosity has to do with her Christian beliefs.

Wright "has demonstrated her life to the Lord," and is compassionate to the needs of those around her, King said.

King remembers Wright "jumping in with both feet" when the Wright family was new to the church and Norman community.

"I remember that we had a man in our church with cancer, and they were looking for a bone marrow transplant donor," King said.

"Bee was very willing to do that. She just stepped forward to be tested."

Wright's love of life is reflected in her philosophy that life is about relationships.

"The people you come in contact with, the family that you have, do whatever you can to nurture that relationship," Wright said. "Do whatever you can to help them be the best they can be here on earth. I think we need to do things that have eternal value. When I die, I'm not going to go out and sit in my fancy car, if I have one, or go embrace my degree on the wall."

No matter what Bee Wright is doing, whether homeschooling her daughters, living her faith or being a wife, King said Bee "really gives 110 percent."

"Her walk matches her talk," King said. "She's someone who wants to get the most she can every day."
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