BIG 3 0

The BIG 3 0!

I am not sure who the big 3 0 is more stressful for...the person turning 30 or the parents of the person turning 30! It is one thing to say your children are in their twenties, and quite another to say they are in their thirties! I still cnanot get it straight. I actually have a child who is thirty! Oh my goodness gracious! If the next thirty years go as fast as the last 30 years went, then I better not blink because I am sure I will miss most of it! However, having said all that, I must also add that I am very pleased with my thirty year old and her family. I could not have asked for a better thirty years of motherhood or for a better thirty year old daughter!

My Bragging Rights!

For those of you who read my blog and not my daughter-in-law's blog, I copied and pasted the following info:Monday, April 14, 2008
Way to go Nicholas Jay...


Beware...this is my bragging post about my wonderful hubby! I am so proud of him. He has worked so hard in school, and it has definitely paid off. In his field they need to publish their experiments to succeed. Before they will even consider letting him start writing his thesis, he should have some publications. Nick has worked hard and has already published one paper about his research in a good science journal. Also, his lab just wrote a review that was published as the featured article in this Nature review magazine. He is only one or two good experiments away from submitting another article about his research!!

It even made to cover! You can see the title on the bottom left!!

Way to go Nick! But don't let this get your head!!!!!!!!

The picture did not come out, but as I said in her comments..That's my son!

My Conference Cold

This weekend was conference weekend. That means that we had two, two hour sessions of meetings on Saturday and Sunday, broadcast from Salt Lake City. In years past, these days were rather painful. We learned early in our young parenting life that 4 sessions was too much for little children. We would try taking them outside between sessions, going to visit relatives between sessions, and taking food to church between sessions. We decided that to get anything at all out of the sessions, we would pick the ones we would take all the children to and rotate going. That worked pretty well. Then came the age when we could listen on the internet, and we would all gather in uncomfortable positions around the computer. However, we did get the sessions in. This weekend, I woke up with a terrible head cold. My nose won't stop running, I can't stop sneezing, I'm cold and hot every other minute and I feel pretty lousy. But, since it is now the age of watching conference from home, I was able to sit in my comfy recliner, with my blanket and hanky, and watch and listen! It was great. I really enjoyed conference weekend! And, what made it even better was that Alex and Terra's family joined me for every session. During one session, Jacob joined me on my chair and fell right off to sleep. During another session, Katy joined me and snuggled and listened and even asked a question about one of the stories. It was so different than the days of old. I really needed to stay home this weekend but I would have been plagued with guilt for missing them. Thank goodness for modern technology!