Welcome back to the post-Thanksgiving happenings. Below, in other postings, we share our Thanksgiving experiences in Rhode Island, NYC and Boston. Most importantly, Kevin and I were sealed in an eternal marriage in the Boston Temple with daughter and son-in-law Lisa and Nolan in attendance. Read about that below.
Since Thanksgiving Carolyn received the TLC award from Northern Michigan University (not tender loving care but Teaching, Learning and Communication – I had to look it up). It is given to the two faculty members who best used technology to improve teaching and learning. In her speech she thanked her father for encouraging her to follow her interests in science when she was a little girl. (Note from Carolyn – she called it the Geek award but Kevin took that out. She is putting it back in because that’s what it is – a geek award! I'm proud to be a Geek and a Science Nerd!)
We are staying here for Christmas this year and it will be a relaxing, cozy, fire-in-the-fireplace (and wood burning furnace) Christmas. This might be the first Christmas in many years that the UP has not had a white Christmas. Actually other parts probably still have snow but here it is, for all practical purposes, gone. We may get some this weekend - let's hope. For those of you who wonder what the big deal is about the snow - well actually we like it. It means beauty, recreation, money (as in the local economy) and, occasionally, snow days at school. Mostly it means we have lush, dense forests here instead of prairie. Here is a picture of our front yard from last winter.
Kevin continues to plug away at school with great success - someday he will graduate and we might have to move for him to find appropriate employment, but until then we will enjoy the picture postcard scenery out our front door. At Church, Kevin is the Ward Clerk and Executive Secretary in the Bishopric, which, between work in the accounting department at Wal-Mart and school keeps him out of trouble. Carolyn is now the Institute teacher – a program of scripture study for college students and is also the sponsor of the Latter-day Saints Student Association. She of course continues to inspire new teachers as a professor at NMU in what is considered one of the best teaching colleges in the Midwest.So that is the dissertation-length annual update. From now on we will try to keep you posted in shorter, more frequent bursts. Carolyn found that updating webpages was quite tedious and not easily done as frequently. This is much easier to update. Be sure you check the other blogs listed in the right-hand frame if you are interested in Carolyn's spiritual thoughts or her Science Nerd thoughts. And read on for other news.....
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