Sunday morning June 9th - Fourth day of Crisis Management! I don't actually do hardly any 'work' in this job. The triplets are very capable - if only thirteen year olds could drive! Well, maybe not. Hmmm.
Remember how we teach toddlers, "Don't touch the stove, it's hot and you'll get burned." Well, I think it's really important to tell teenagers the same thing about their concerns. The issue is to "know" what their concerns are.
Kari and David are VERY PRESENT in the lives of their children. They monitor, from day to day, what's going on with each one of them - it's a huge job. Even though I'm here with the kids, physically, I'll bet Mom and Dad have had or have made 100 phone calls back and forth with the kids, planning their every move. Cell phones. What would they do without them?
As for 'traveling education,' I met so many people in Guatemala last year who had taken their children out of school, in Canada, the USA and Europe, to travel as a family. In view of the above comments about my 'babysitting' job, I am so pro travel for families. There's just no alternative to the positives I see in a traveling education.
One family I met in Guatemala, a Dentist fro Nashville, Tennessee, his office manager wife, and their two kids - a 17 year old boy and a 15 year old girl - were on a one year family adventure. They had spent about six months traveling - only in Central and South America - and were, at the time I met them, doing 20+ hours a week of volunteer work in Guatemala for six months. I was so so impressed with all of them. I met them in the hospital for malnourished infants and children where I did volunteer work. The day we met I had Holland visiting me and also doing volunteer work.
They were an incredible family who had gone through all the pros and cons of deciding to make this adventure - had overcome all the negatives like high school football team member (boy), first year of high school with my friends (girl), etc, etc. I spent about an hour with the son and daughter asking them questions about how they felt. They both said there was no comparison to the way they think now with the way they thought before the trip. They were 'home schooling,' that is, Internet schooling! Mom and Dad had to monitor very little and their progress through their high school requirements were astounding. Their education accomplishments were far and away above any they could have received in a traditional setting.
I would so love to see my grandkids have the same opportunity - I don't even really think it's important where or what kind of adventure it is - it could be 6 months on a sailboat in the Pacific for Heavens sake - the intellectual, psychological, emotional, developmental possibilities are endless.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Muddling Through House Cleaning / Organization Project
6/5/13 12:30PM
I'm muddling through house cleaning and organizing. As I've mentioned I remind myself that it doesn't all have to be done immediately. However, I seem to be giving myself a lot of permission to take breaks! I read almost half a novel yesterday and didn't get much done in the way of organization or cleaning! Now I've just returned from my fourth Post Office run in the last two days - trying to collect my mail that's been held - only for a couple of weeks - finally today I have it. When I got back into the house I spent about 20 minutes simply separating what snail mail I need from the fliers and ads! What a bunch of trees lost!
Okay, so now I'm taking a little break from the 'house project.' I have no idea how some ideas get into my head - but I just had to find out if anybody knew .......
What was Albert Einstein's I.Q?
So I went to the trusty Internet....
Here's one interesting answer....
Einstein never took an IQ Test (they are a fairly recent development) so no one knows what his IQ is. But the fact that he was brilliant in some fields doesn't necessarily mean he would
have had a high IQ.
There are people, called 'idiot savants,' who are incredibly brilliant in one field, but hopeless at other things. For some reason, mathematics is often the field of special intensity - they can calculate numbers in their heads that you or I would have trouble entering into a computer, and solve them faster than the computer. They can tell you what day of the week any date in history was, or project it forward into the future. But they may not be able to figure out how to get across town on a bus.
So IQ, no matter how high it is, doesn't always indicate brilliance. And one's personal IQ can and does vary over one's lifetime, so it isn't a set number. It is used as a guide, however. IQs of under 80 are generally deemed to need assisted living conditions, those with IQs over 135 are MENSA level. These are people who sit around and do math problems for fun and find sudoko and crosswords much too easy.
Some people with high IQs are not especially socially adept, because they can't comprehend how other people (with lower IQs) have such trouble understanding things that come naturally to them. Then there are others with high IQs who are wonderful, kind and caring people - in spite of their intelligence!
There aren't really any generalizations you can make about people with high or low IQs.
I'm muddling through house cleaning and organizing. As I've mentioned I remind myself that it doesn't all have to be done immediately. However, I seem to be giving myself a lot of permission to take breaks! I read almost half a novel yesterday and didn't get much done in the way of organization or cleaning! Now I've just returned from my fourth Post Office run in the last two days - trying to collect my mail that's been held - only for a couple of weeks - finally today I have it. When I got back into the house I spent about 20 minutes simply separating what snail mail I need from the fliers and ads! What a bunch of trees lost!
Okay, so now I'm taking a little break from the 'house project.' I have no idea how some ideas get into my head - but I just had to find out if anybody knew .......
What was Albert Einstein's I.Q?
So I went to the trusty Internet....
Here's one interesting answer....
Einstein never took an IQ Test (they are a fairly recent development) so no one knows what his IQ is. But the fact that he was brilliant in some fields doesn't necessarily mean he would
have had a high IQ.
There are people, called 'idiot savants,' who are incredibly brilliant in one field, but hopeless at other things. For some reason, mathematics is often the field of special intensity - they can calculate numbers in their heads that you or I would have trouble entering into a computer, and solve them faster than the computer. They can tell you what day of the week any date in history was, or project it forward into the future. But they may not be able to figure out how to get across town on a bus.
So IQ, no matter how high it is, doesn't always indicate brilliance. And one's personal IQ can and does vary over one's lifetime, so it isn't a set number. It is used as a guide, however. IQs of under 80 are generally deemed to need assisted living conditions, those with IQs over 135 are MENSA level. These are people who sit around and do math problems for fun and find sudoko and crosswords much too easy.
Some people with high IQs are not especially socially adept, because they can't comprehend how other people (with lower IQs) have such trouble understanding things that come naturally to them. Then there are others with high IQs who are wonderful, kind and caring people - in spite of their intelligence!
There aren't really any generalizations you can make about people with high or low IQs.
Triplets on the Loose!
6/7/13
I haven't blogged for a couple of days because I'm 'baby-sitting' for my triplet grandchildren for 6 days!
Shouldn't be too hard should it? After all, they're 13 years old. NOT! The triplets are Spencer(m), Tate(f) and Avery(f). These are the fourth, fifth and sixth kids for my daughter, Kari. She's also the mom of the university and high school graduates I've been talking about lately!
Yesterday was the triplets last day of 7th grade so I got up at 6 to get myself ready before waking them at 6:45 and 'coaching' them in the preparation process. Yikes! For you parents out there that means, I'm not supposed to have to DO anything for them, just make sure they're ready to be driven at 7:15. Well, first off, Tate remembered that she had to be a school early because she was a presenter for their 'beginning of the day' program, whatever that is! So that meant they had 20 minutes from eyelids open to the time they'd be in the car. So, no chores got completed and believe me when I saw their rooms when I got home from driving them I #!(*%^#*&^5$#@)(***&^%?/}#. They attend a Charter School that's located about 15 miles from their home in El Dorado Hills - so they need to be driven every day to and from school and activities.
The last day of school was a fun day, followed for the girls, by a trip to Sun Splash for the afternoon and a slumber party. So I went back to the school at 11:20 to pick only Spencer up. I brought him home and made lunch - they love Mimi lunches and think they're special - Well I guess they are as normally they'd have hurriedly made-sandwiches, etc. Spencer had homemade spaghetti and garlic bread and a salad to boot! Then I was to take him to a near-by Country Club for an all afternoon pool party with two friends who were to meet him there. My daughter had said they could walk back and forth, "Mom, you don't have to drive them everywhere." Well, it was 105 degrees so I drove him and told him I'd be back to pick him up in three hours.
I had to return to my house in Roseville - 20 miles from here - to check on the cats, who were just fine; although I think they were missing Lacy and me! It seems that when nobody is at home, Eleanor ventures outside the bedroom, but never outside the house. Lincoln is a man of the world, coming and going at will throughout the day and night. I got to the house and back to pick up Spencer at the right time. However, he said he'd checked with his mom (in Florida) and she'd told him, "If it's okay with Mimi, you can invite your friends to go to a movie and sleep over." So, we left the Club with five boys - boy is the conversation interesting between them. Hmmm! Well, I thought, I can just stretch out the chicken piccata, baked potato, tomato-cucumbe salad dinner for all the boys. Oh no, they weren't hungry. They just snack for dinner. So my lovely dinner went back in the refrigerator and they pigged out on chips, dip, pizza bites, etc. Then they wanted to go to a movie, "The Purge." I checked and found that it was R-rated so I had each boy check with his parents - all could go. I drove them and picked them up and delivered two boys to their respective homes
Spencer and two of the five boys stayed overnight in Spencer's room; I asked the group to clean it up before leaving today for their next activity - a group ticket to go to a motor cross show. Thank goodness my granddaughter, Holland and her boyfriend took them. They're gone and all the boys are going to sleep at another boy's house tonight. The 'cleanup' accomplished is, in my opinion, a joke - I'll have Spencer do the whole job himself tomorrow! Okay, enough of the boys.
I picked up the triplet girls this afternoon - and three of their friends who will be here the rest of the day and for overnight too. They've asked if they can 'camp out' on the backyard trampoline - okay with me!
We've just completed a "Chopped TV Food Challenge," in which I drove them to the supermarket to buy the ingredients for each team (two teams) plus one girl agreed to be the second judge with me. After each team had their supplies I bought mystery ingredients they had to incorporate into their creations. The creations were to be a dessert and the mystery ingredients I supplied were: macadamia nuts, crushed Fritos, avocado, a Pirouette cookie, a carrot and cilantro.
Well, they 'cheated' a little because they couldn't think of how to incorporate things like Fritos and avocado into a dessert so each team made an appetizer and a dessert. Anna and I agreed on who the winning team was, even though we cautioned them that they really needed to incorporate all the mystery ingredients next time. We had a lot of fun and enjoyed white turkey chili with lots of condiments for dinner.
Now I'm relaxing with my computer before we tackle the kitchen cleanup - YUCK. Oh, I forgot to mention, it's currently 109 degrees in El Dorado Hills - and the electricity just went off! May be an interesting night!
My daughter, Kari, and her husband, David, are in Key West Florida where six members of my daughter's Triathlon club competed in a swim race around the Florida Keys - a 12- mile swim. All her team members finished the complete swim, but the times were slow due to weather conditions in the entire area.
I need electricity!!!! It's getting really really really hot in here!
I haven't blogged for a couple of days because I'm 'baby-sitting' for my triplet grandchildren for 6 days!
Shouldn't be too hard should it? After all, they're 13 years old. NOT! The triplets are Spencer(m), Tate(f) and Avery(f). These are the fourth, fifth and sixth kids for my daughter, Kari. She's also the mom of the university and high school graduates I've been talking about lately!
Yesterday was the triplets last day of 7th grade so I got up at 6 to get myself ready before waking them at 6:45 and 'coaching' them in the preparation process. Yikes! For you parents out there that means, I'm not supposed to have to DO anything for them, just make sure they're ready to be driven at 7:15. Well, first off, Tate remembered that she had to be a school early because she was a presenter for their 'beginning of the day' program, whatever that is! So that meant they had 20 minutes from eyelids open to the time they'd be in the car. So, no chores got completed and believe me when I saw their rooms when I got home from driving them I #!(*%^#*&^5$#@)(***&^%?/}#. They attend a Charter School that's located about 15 miles from their home in El Dorado Hills - so they need to be driven every day to and from school and activities.
The last day of school was a fun day, followed for the girls, by a trip to Sun Splash for the afternoon and a slumber party. So I went back to the school at 11:20 to pick only Spencer up. I brought him home and made lunch - they love Mimi lunches and think they're special - Well I guess they are as normally they'd have hurriedly made-sandwiches, etc. Spencer had homemade spaghetti and garlic bread and a salad to boot! Then I was to take him to a near-by Country Club for an all afternoon pool party with two friends who were to meet him there. My daughter had said they could walk back and forth, "Mom, you don't have to drive them everywhere." Well, it was 105 degrees so I drove him and told him I'd be back to pick him up in three hours.
I had to return to my house in Roseville - 20 miles from here - to check on the cats, who were just fine; although I think they were missing Lacy and me! It seems that when nobody is at home, Eleanor ventures outside the bedroom, but never outside the house. Lincoln is a man of the world, coming and going at will throughout the day and night. I got to the house and back to pick up Spencer at the right time. However, he said he'd checked with his mom (in Florida) and she'd told him, "If it's okay with Mimi, you can invite your friends to go to a movie and sleep over." So, we left the Club with five boys - boy is the conversation interesting between them. Hmmm! Well, I thought, I can just stretch out the chicken piccata, baked potato, tomato-cucumbe salad dinner for all the boys. Oh no, they weren't hungry. They just snack for dinner. So my lovely dinner went back in the refrigerator and they pigged out on chips, dip, pizza bites, etc. Then they wanted to go to a movie, "The Purge." I checked and found that it was R-rated so I had each boy check with his parents - all could go. I drove them and picked them up and delivered two boys to their respective homes
Spencer and two of the five boys stayed overnight in Spencer's room; I asked the group to clean it up before leaving today for their next activity - a group ticket to go to a motor cross show. Thank goodness my granddaughter, Holland and her boyfriend took them. They're gone and all the boys are going to sleep at another boy's house tonight. The 'cleanup' accomplished is, in my opinion, a joke - I'll have Spencer do the whole job himself tomorrow! Okay, enough of the boys.
I picked up the triplet girls this afternoon - and three of their friends who will be here the rest of the day and for overnight too. They've asked if they can 'camp out' on the backyard trampoline - okay with me!
We've just completed a "Chopped TV Food Challenge," in which I drove them to the supermarket to buy the ingredients for each team (two teams) plus one girl agreed to be the second judge with me. After each team had their supplies I bought mystery ingredients they had to incorporate into their creations. The creations were to be a dessert and the mystery ingredients I supplied were: macadamia nuts, crushed Fritos, avocado, a Pirouette cookie, a carrot and cilantro.
Well, they 'cheated' a little because they couldn't think of how to incorporate things like Fritos and avocado into a dessert so each team made an appetizer and a dessert. Anna and I agreed on who the winning team was, even though we cautioned them that they really needed to incorporate all the mystery ingredients next time. We had a lot of fun and enjoyed white turkey chili with lots of condiments for dinner.
Now I'm relaxing with my computer before we tackle the kitchen cleanup - YUCK. Oh, I forgot to mention, it's currently 109 degrees in El Dorado Hills - and the electricity just went off! May be an interesting night!
My daughter, Kari, and her husband, David, are in Key West Florida where six members of my daughter's Triathlon club competed in a swim race around the Florida Keys - a 12- mile swim. All her team members finished the complete swim, but the times were slow due to weather conditions in the entire area.
I need electricity!!!! It's getting really really really hot in here!
Monday, June 3, 2013
Interested in Geography?!
12 Noon
I started receiving a newsletter about the subject of Geography about two years ago and find it very interesting and informative. I thought I'd post the link http://geography.about.com/ if any readers may share the same interest. There's a spot on the home page where one can sign up for the news letter. Matt Rosenberg is a professional geographer and his email news letter as one email I look forward to each time. Today's reminded the reader the the National Hurricane season began this past Saturday. For my Roseville, California inland 'home base' it's not much of an issue, but given all the climate changes and weather anomalies we're experiencing in general, I've wanted to become more knowledgeable about the subject.
And, reading about geography can become a time-consuming past-time. I start reading the highlights of his newsletter; then I start hitting reference websites, then I'm off and running - trying to learn everything possible on each subject!
In the last few years I've finally admitted that I have absolutely no sense of direction. Man-oh-man, if the sun's not shining or it's night time, I have no idea what direction is what. Thank heavens, in California we have changes in terrain to help guide lost souls like me. I do know that the Pacific Ocean is to the West - no matter where I am in California! But inland California has tall mountains on all edges of the great San Joaquin Valley so I have to be careful to not 'assume' that that particular mountain is definitely to the East!!
1:30PM
Just received an update on "my" volcano in Guatemala. El Fuego has been a continually active volcano. During my 18-month stay in Antigua I could easily see El Fuego every day from both houses I lived in. It was a part of my morning ritual to take a look (and lots of photos) of smoke shooting up into the air. Two times during my stay it actually erupted, sending up flames and spewing lava for several days each time. Since leaving in November it has continued to be very active - check out this raw video taken a couple of months ago .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2zHQ7Y4L8c
Volcanos, earthquakes, floods, etc. are commonplace in Guatemala - I learned a lot living there - and from Matt Rosenberg too.
I started receiving a newsletter about the subject of Geography about two years ago and find it very interesting and informative. I thought I'd post the link http://geography.about.com/ if any readers may share the same interest. There's a spot on the home page where one can sign up for the news letter. Matt Rosenberg is a professional geographer and his email news letter as one email I look forward to each time. Today's reminded the reader the the National Hurricane season began this past Saturday. For my Roseville, California inland 'home base' it's not much of an issue, but given all the climate changes and weather anomalies we're experiencing in general, I've wanted to become more knowledgeable about the subject.
And, reading about geography can become a time-consuming past-time. I start reading the highlights of his newsletter; then I start hitting reference websites, then I'm off and running - trying to learn everything possible on each subject!
In the last few years I've finally admitted that I have absolutely no sense of direction. Man-oh-man, if the sun's not shining or it's night time, I have no idea what direction is what. Thank heavens, in California we have changes in terrain to help guide lost souls like me. I do know that the Pacific Ocean is to the West - no matter where I am in California! But inland California has tall mountains on all edges of the great San Joaquin Valley so I have to be careful to not 'assume' that that particular mountain is definitely to the East!!
1:30PM
Just received an update on "my" volcano in Guatemala. El Fuego has been a continually active volcano. During my 18-month stay in Antigua I could easily see El Fuego every day from both houses I lived in. It was a part of my morning ritual to take a look (and lots of photos) of smoke shooting up into the air. Two times during my stay it actually erupted, sending up flames and spewing lava for several days each time. Since leaving in November it has continued to be very active - check out this raw video taken a couple of months ago .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2zHQ7Y4L8c
Volcanos, earthquakes, floods, etc. are commonplace in Guatemala - I learned a lot living there - and from Matt Rosenberg too.
Antigua, Guatemala is located at an altitude of about 6000 feet above sea level - so it is possible to look out to the distance through clouds. This is a quiet El Fuego (the peak at the left behind the cloud). The photo was taken in the late afternoon - a time of the day when El Fuego was often very quiet.
The photo below was taken early in the morning - and it was very common to see El Fuego letting off smoke and steam
Both photos were taken out my bedroom window. This was my wake-up view.
If you haven't already visited, Guatemala is a wonderful experience for the adventurer. Unfortunately it's not the easiest to navigate in an RV as the highways and roads leave lots to be desired in terms of potholes, alternate routes, etc. It's a very poor country; but the people are gentile, kind and caring. I loved my time there and can say that I have friends who I'll never forget.
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Home Base - Roseville
9:30AM
I'm back home for a while. OMG! So much to do! This little house is only 1250 square feet and looks and feels overwhelming after life in my 20-foot Daphne. Where to start ....
First of all, I've really pretty much decided to rent the house for a year or so. That means there's much to be done to prepare. I've moved so much in my life; it's a process I shutter to even THINK about it.
Okay, MP, here's where we go into "One foot in front of the other" mode. Start someplace and move forward. I'll be making computer, iPhone and paper lists galore; maybe if I'm really smart I'll integrate them into one location. Hmmm. I've been making lists in Excel all during my adventuring in reference to things needed / wanted for the RV. Hey, I think the thing to do is use that Excel workbook for ALL LISTS. Yeah! One decision made. More later......
11:30 Saturday 6/1/13
As of now it looks like I'll have to put off plans for the big RV trip around the Country and Canada for at least a couple of months. I've got my integrated list started in Excel and I'm putting one foot in front of the other. Holland's graduation is past; now I can start to concentrate on everything else. Oh, yes, next week I'll be guardian-ing [I hesitate to say 'babysit' 'cause they're all bigger than me!] the triplets while David and Kari head to Florida for Kari's Tri team's participation in the swim around the Florida Keyes- a 16-mile swim. I'll be taking over for the triplets last three days of school for this year; then they're on to Eighth Grade in September.
I'll be continuing to plan, work and prepare my house to rent. But, I absolutely refuse to give myself a lot a time pressure. I'm retired. My goal is to ENJOY the process of life - whatever it is at the moment and what comes up on the horizon.
Oh, and I need to wish Quinn happiness in her new house - she's moving from a one-bedroom apartment to a two bedroom place today.....in San Jose, CA.
7:00PM Just went to see "42," the story of Jackie Robinson. It was great and brought back wonderful memories - my dad was a die-hard Yanks fan. I started cheering for the Dodgers at about the age of 7 or 8; I'd like to think I was asserting myself - NOT. It was just fun to watch the World Series every year and 'legally' argue with Dad! Remember all those Yankies vs Dodgers World Series?
Just a thought - where would we be with 'all white' sports right now? Hmmm!
I'm back home for a while. OMG! So much to do! This little house is only 1250 square feet and looks and feels overwhelming after life in my 20-foot Daphne. Where to start ....
First of all, I've really pretty much decided to rent the house for a year or so. That means there's much to be done to prepare. I've moved so much in my life; it's a process I shutter to even THINK about it.
Okay, MP, here's where we go into "One foot in front of the other" mode. Start someplace and move forward. I'll be making computer, iPhone and paper lists galore; maybe if I'm really smart I'll integrate them into one location. Hmmm. I've been making lists in Excel all during my adventuring in reference to things needed / wanted for the RV. Hey, I think the thing to do is use that Excel workbook for ALL LISTS. Yeah! One decision made. More later......
11:30 Saturday 6/1/13
As of now it looks like I'll have to put off plans for the big RV trip around the Country and Canada for at least a couple of months. I've got my integrated list started in Excel and I'm putting one foot in front of the other. Holland's graduation is past; now I can start to concentrate on everything else. Oh, yes, next week I'll be guardian-ing [I hesitate to say 'babysit' 'cause they're all bigger than me!] the triplets while David and Kari head to Florida for Kari's Tri team's participation in the swim around the Florida Keyes- a 16-mile swim. I'll be taking over for the triplets last three days of school for this year; then they're on to Eighth Grade in September.
I'll be continuing to plan, work and prepare my house to rent. But, I absolutely refuse to give myself a lot a time pressure. I'm retired. My goal is to ENJOY the process of life - whatever it is at the moment and what comes up on the horizon.
Oh, and I need to wish Quinn happiness in her new house - she's moving from a one-bedroom apartment to a two bedroom place today.....in San Jose, CA.
7:00PM Just went to see "42," the story of Jackie Robinson. It was great and brought back wonderful memories - my dad was a die-hard Yanks fan. I started cheering for the Dodgers at about the age of 7 or 8; I'd like to think I was asserting myself - NOT. It was just fun to watch the World Series every year and 'legally' argue with Dad! Remember all those Yankies vs Dodgers World Series?
Just a thought - where would we be with 'all white' sports right now? Hmmm!
Information for RVers .....
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Just got an email with this website - thought my RV friends might like it if you don't already now about it:
Just got an email with this website - thought my RV friends might like it if you don't already now about it:
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Not a week goes by without a customer asking where the nearest facility is to evacuate the holding tanks on their RV. The need for a dump station is as inevitable for RVers as death and taxes are for everyone.Post Graduation
9AM June 1, 2013
As far as Mimi (that's me) is concerned, Holland's graduation went off without a hitch. My sweet Holland Isley Duane is a high school graduate - on her way to an exciting and promising life.
Holland has been very active in her church and groups associated with it and she's decided to accept entrance into a Bible study abroad group in Germany. She'll be leaving in September for Germany [I can't remember the name of the city!!!] for a six month course with students from around the globe. The Bible study concentration will be Old Testament. But, as with her 2 older sister-predecessors, she must have saved $3000 by Summer's end - so she'll be hostessing at Mimi's, a chain restaurant located close to home. Lots of hours of work ahead for this young lady.
As far as Mimi (that's me) is concerned, Holland's graduation went off without a hitch. My sweet Holland Isley Duane is a high school graduate - on her way to an exciting and promising life.
The table decoration for Holland's graduation dinner that was served at 4:30 in the afternoon - because she had to leave for the ceremony at 5:45 and would be going directly to the 'all-night sober graduation party' from the ceremony. The blue orchid table decoration is in honor of Holland's beautiful blue eyes - she's my only grandchild, out of 8, with blue eyes!
Kari, her mom, and I prepared exactly what Holland had requested for the menu:
Sushi trays - a whole variety of favorites
Chinese Chicken Salad
Edaname
Strawberry Shortcake
How's that for individual taste?
Mom, Kari, Holland (partially dressed as graduate) and Dad, David
They are one TALL family
From L to R: 'Little Sam' (Holland's uncle), Betsy (grandma), Holland, Mimi and
'Big' Sam (grandpa) - Grandpa Sam and Grandma Betsy are retired high school teachers. Uncle Sammy took his dad's job when he retired and now is Basketball Coach Sam at Corona High School in Tempe, Arizona
Holland has been very active in her church and groups associated with it and she's decided to accept entrance into a Bible study abroad group in Germany. She'll be leaving in September for Germany [I can't remember the name of the city!!!] for a six month course with students from around the globe. The Bible study concentration will be Old Testament. But, as with her 2 older sister-predecessors, she must have saved $3000 by Summer's end - so she'll be hostessing at Mimi's, a chain restaurant located close to home. Lots of hours of work ahead for this young lady.
I just LOVE this lady.
Happy Graduation, "Hubba"
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