Polly and the kids and Liz Carlson are almost to Seattle. They have to be there by 3:00 today because one of the Carlson girls has a dentist appt. The trip has gone well. Polly & the kids will go to Granger early next week when the moving truck arrives with her stuff. Members of her new ward will help her off-load. (I chuckle to myself imagining Polly & Katie unloading the truck! Ha! But no, they will have help.)
Kendra is back to going to classes, and she worked on a book last night. I'd say she's over the worst of her brief, bad illness.
David and Holly are in a whirl, finishing up the last 2 1/2 weeks of class. They will start packing soon, along with finishing up classes and taking classes. Whew!
Mike Koponick is counting down the days getting ready for his new job. He just has today and tomorrow on the old job, and he will start the new one on Monday. He is really ready to make this change. Julia continues to have good days and bad days. She is seeing a specialist in infectious diseases and another asthma specialist to try to get to the bottom of her long slog of feeling crummy.
"No news is good news" for David, Angela, Josh, Nathan, and Maleena.
The excitement in Oregon today is the "Civil War" football game between U of O and OSU. Go Ducks and Beavers!
My big testing sessions have gone well. Now I just have to get finals graded. I'm a little nervous about a meeting tomorrow morning at the middle school. I'm supposed to facilitate some curriculum development meetings for their intervention classes. The classes are in reading and writing, and they are not necessarily taught by English classes, so the curriculum has to be "user friendly." Some of the English teachers aren't so happy about that...hey, I'm just the messenger! We'll see how it goes.
Mark and I had such a very, very nice time at the temple last night. We did the baptisms for Uncle Bill & Aunt Pam Jenkins, Uncle Charlie Jenkins and his mother, Cam Mitchel's parents, and several others. There was a really good spirit. Who knows if our belief is true? Maybe they really are on the other side, anxious and waiting for us to do this work for them. Maybe not, but if that's the case, all I can say is that it was a very meaningful way to honor and pay tribute to two much-loved uncles and other family members. I felt close to those two uncles who I loved and admired while they were here, and it seemed that they felt close to me, too. Makes me a little teary just to remember it.
Tonight is my last PSU class. It should end early because the rest of the class members want to go watch the Civil War game on TV - fine with me - I'll get home a little earlier for once!
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