August 13 - 19, 2017
Life in Nyssa {from my parents weekly letter}
We are privileged to watch the miracle unfold in Vietnam of Rachel and Kurt receiving Nicole and seeing her accept and love them. Meanwhile, on the home front ...
There is one Jane Romans when all her siblings are home and another Jane Romans when she is home alone. We are glad we got to meet the second Jane Romans on Friday when everyone else went to school. She is so pleasant.
Austin started as manager of the football team this week. Because his friends are managers, too, he loves to go to practice. Now his parents have an excellent carrot to dangle when they need to have work done or homework finished.
Why is it that our grandchildren devoured the mac-and-cheese-chicken-enchilada dish that Emma prepared as part of the back-to-school dinner but refused to eat it as a leftover?
Jane went down the big swimming pool slide by herself for the first time. She was very proud of herself, and rightly so! That was part of the 3 hours we spent at Lakeview Pool in Nampa with the Farnsworth cousins. It is a small, shallow, inexpensive pool with a good slide. Perfect for our group of little cousins. We had our work cut out for us when a summer school class of about 25 kids showed up and filled the pool. It was harder to keep an eye on ours. When Spencer exited the pool 1 hour before the others, Ben kept him busy by showing him how to make and braid a leather bracelet.
We appreciate Elaine's thoughtfulness as she tried to give us a break from child-care duties by getting together to swim on Wed and coming to visit on Saturday. She brought food and games for the kids yesterday afternoon. We learned that Spencer can keep two balloons in the air the longest.
After 2 1/2 weeks of contention, we arrived at the breaking point this week. As a result, I pulled Austin away from the dinner table to talk and then Emma. They both have been trying harder. Why did I wait so long?
The McFarland USA movie was so good that the girls watched it two nights in a row this week.
The best dish washers award goes to Ruth and to Lucy. The other five nights of the week the dishwashers try to avoid the work at all cost and then have to be called back 4 or 5 times before the work is finished.
At 11 year old scout day camp, Spencer and his cousin Braxton arranged to get together on Saturday afternoon. The possibility of going with Spencer motivated Austin to get up from his sick bed and mow the grass. The play date didn't materialize but we got the grass mowed.
Is it possible that Rachel never hears "thanks, Mom, for driving me to ..."? I think it's possible.
On the first day of school Claudia pulled out of the driveway, drove up the first hill and at the crest saw two deer on the side of the road. As she drove by the large fawn spooked and jumped in front of the Romans' suburban. Now the suburban has a big dent in the passenger-side bumper and the deer is dead. Claudia continued on to school. Emma and Lucy arranged for Emma to take Lucy to her 1st grade classroom. The first day of the school class consisted of a lot of talking about the eclipse and practicing how to put on the eclipse glasses. Ontario is in the path of the full eclipse!
Ruth likes leg stretching and exercises while seated in a chair. She exercised with me 2 days in a row this week. It would have been more but then school started. We do YouTube videos of aerobic, strength and flexibility exercises for seniors. (Seniors are allowed to use a chair.)
We start family scripture study with a short video from the lds.org home page or LDS Newsroom. Then we jump into the Book of Mormon.
We have spent a lot of time with our grandchildren. We feel more comfortable with them and they with us. We had some great experiences together. When it has not been so great, we remember that grandchildren are works in progress, just as we were at their age.
Meanwhile in Vietnam ...
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