Fwd: [KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES] A Happy Place

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From: Bloomers <crogys@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Subject: [KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES] A Happy Place
To: crogys@gmail.com

This week has been a fun one for our family.  Eden won her student government campaign and will be the 9th Grade Girls Rep. in high school next year.  I won second place in a "What Middleton Has Meant to Me" essay contest (which was by no means a literary accomplishment, but cumulative thanks that I have wanted to express to the people in our community for a long time), and we finally got our garden planted (a 3+ person, 8 hour project) on the most beautiful, sunny Saturday.  The best news of all is that our Stake President has given the go ahead for Jordan's missionary paperwork to go in by the end of July.  This past month has been so good for him and these next two months will be a blessing.  We're so grateful that he has been able to earn some money and most especially that he has had this opportunity to dig deep.  The anticipation is exciting and he is feeling ready.  Mikayla and Eden went to a Bishop's youth fireside last night and listened to a recently returned missionary from Sierra Leone.  I didn't even know they had missionaries there (where the average life expectancy is 42)!  After listening to some of the stories, my mother heart is really hoping that Jordan will be sent to someplace like Montana :)  His heart is ready for anyplace--even that.

Today is the start of Fred's week "off".  He did get up at 6:00 and spend a good hour and a half "working", but he has put it away and it will be interesting to see what he does with his day of "freedom".  Jordan and I will be birthday shopping and Fred will be here with the twins.  Tomorrow we will be partying for his birthday. He wanted to go fishing for his "date", but the weather is looking iffy again, so he may have to think of a plan B.  He says his plan B is a coat and an umbrella.  I'm getting a little nervous as I am supposed to be going on this date as well.  I may end up in the car with a book :) Wednesday-Friday we will be celebrating our 20th anniversary, so Fred won't have much "free" time, which will make the week go by much too quickly I'm sure, but it will be fun and refreshing to have his focus here--if he can manage it. He needs and deserves a nice, relaxing break.  Sometimes he has to imagine his "happy place" (warm beaches--a hammock under the palm trees) to keep going and stay relaxed.  I hope he won't have to travel there this week.


"Got Eden?" campaign logo (designed by Jordan and Mikayla)

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Garden:  Planting done--work just begun

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