Grandpa would be proud

I loved Ryan’s comments to my last post. Spot on. Well said. (Although eliminating faux news is harsh, isn’t it? Maybe not.) In any case, Grandpa would be proud.

He’d be proud of them all for their accomplishments over the past 3 years – graduations, engagements, pregnancies. Job successes, remodeling successes, all-kinds-of successes. Brent and Carolyn are moving back to Tucson for a new job; Beth and Lauren and Jill all started new jobs already; Carolyn-the-other-one is graduating from college and getting married all at once in December. Kyle is getting recognized for his know-how, Ty is soon to be a father, Mark-the-younger has launched himself on a career in the family business. And Ryan has taken over Grandpa’s political mind. Oh yes, Grandpa would be proud.

So this is a good time to mention Todd’s next saga too. He is starting his first professional engineering job this month in West Virginia (never mind that he was supposed to be starting it in January in Oregon – long story) and is in the throes of it - moving coordinators, car-shipping coordinators, temporary housing coordinators, permanent housing coordinators… You name it, they are coordinating it for him. Hopefully all that Coordinating will result in him getting settled and started off right in this job that really didn’t ‘start off right.’ After all, if the CEO of a many-billion-dollar company already knows your name and you haven’t even started working there yet, there must be good things to come!

I know Grandpa would be proud of him too – but that doesn’t even match how proud Mark and I are of him!