Mother’s Day, May 8, 2016
We have so many tender mercies today. It is spring in our valley, but especially in
Rexburg. I was able to go to the Rexburg
Temple yesterday with Blaine’s sisters – Debbie, Tammie, Sherry – and his mom.
All the fruit trees are in blossom, the lilac bushes are starting to bloom, the
tulips are all up, daffodils blooming at home.
The world is green and beautiful.
Derek came up yesterday.
He, Blaine and Nikole burned a bunch of dead grass by Mom Ripp’s house,
while we were in Rexburg.
Derek has had some very exciting things happen. On Friday evening, after he and Breanna
Marcum had shot guns and cooked tin foil dinners in the oven, with Logan
Petersen and Tayler Arnold, who are recently engaged, he basicly told Breanna
how much he likes her, in detail. She
told him back. She said she didn’t want
to date anyone else, but he could, if he wanted. He told her he only wanted to date her, so
they are an “item”. I chuckled, because
Derek told us he told Breanna that he was happy, but he didn’t really know
where to go from here, he had never done this before : )
Our hearts are bursting with joy, because she is such a
sweet, wonderful young lady. We only met
her when they came to our house and did the four wheeler ride last week-end,
but we have been receiving reports from Derek, almost daily since he starting
dating her 3 weeks ago.
We have prayed all Derek’s life, but especially the last few
years, that he would be led by the Lord to find his eternal companion, that she
would be as valiant and true and wonderful as he is. We believe he has found her! Blaine’s blessing to Derek last fall was that
he and she would know rather quickly that they were right for each other. It appears to be happening! We prayed fervently that he would not make a
mistake with someone else he was dating.
It’s been a stark difference, how Derek feels, when he is
around Breanna vs. some other young women he has dated. It’s such a pleasant, nice surpise. We are so grateful to Breannna’s parents, who
raised her so nicely.
We discovered that her Grandpa Robert Marcum was born and
raised in Driggs. We know many Marcums
in our valley.
I’m grateful for all the mothers in my life today. I remember the ones past – Adelaide Dye,
Annie Wiseman, Elizabeth Lusk, Zella Parks Cutler, Mae Williams, Violet White
and my own sweet Mom, Renee’ White and Blaine’s other, Helen Ripplinger. I owe so much to those women. I love being a mother and am grateful for my
five superb children that I adore with all my heart.
Blaine and I have been working in our yard, trying hard to
keep weeds out and our flowers and trees are budding.
Blaine gave me three hanging flower baskets, which he put up
on the porch. I love them.
Yesterday, Debbie, Tammie, Sherry, Helen and I attended the
Rexburg Temple together. We were able to
view my favorite temple film, the one that has Heather’s acquaintances from her
Nauvoo Mission in it. We stopped by
Deseret Book and ate at Applebee’s. We
saw Todd Anderson at Kiwi Loco. They
were having a big outdoor celebration for their five years of business. He works there.
Nikole has mailed out her senior announcements for
graduation. We are less than a month
away from that. She met with Tiffany
Wilson to have an orientation for cleaning the condos – her job for this
summer.
Elizabeth has gotten a little better since last week. Her voice and eyes sound and look
normal. She’s got a cough still, but is
better. We will switch to allergy
management soon, I’m sure. She did
really well running in the 800 and mile at the track meet in Jackson. She will have Districts this Thursday and
Friday.
Kortny mostly, and I are working on a 50th
Wedding Scrapbook for our parents. We
have an overnight party planned in August in Lava. I found an app that scans the old pictures
quickly onto an iPhone. Then we move
them to Shutterfly and make a book. It’s
going to be marvelous.
Carl was asked to go with Miss C., his band teacher, to go
to the elementary 5th graders to advocate for the music program at
the middle school. He got to play some
parts of songs on the drums or xelephone.
He also ran in that track race with the Tiger Griz and did exceptionally
well. He had a Scout overnight camp at
AJ Woolstenhulme’s.
We just have a great time together, with our own
family. We’ve felt the Spirit, as Derek
shares his life, his dating Breanna, his joyful feelings, etc. We get along very well, most of the time.
My children are the pride and joy of my life.
I was able to Facetime with Heather last night. They found a drive-in theatre near their
home. She was showing me the blooming
trees. I showed her my new living room
curtains, my flowers that are blooming, the green hill and forest behind our
home. I’m so grateful for modern
technology.
It’s been nice to have some weeks off of the Stake Primary
visits.
Today, this morning, we’re on our way to see my mom. We invited them to our house for dinner,
since I needed to be with the Ripplinger Sisters on Saturday. They couldn’t come, so we are going to
them. Christian and Kortny and their
families did something with my parents yesterday. We are going to have Brunch together and then
go to their sacrament meeting. Then we
will head home. I just worry, because my
mother hasn’t been very healthy this past year.
I never know when she won’t be here, so we decided we would go see her.
I have a firm testimony that having a nice, stalwart, kind,
patient, happy personality goes a long, long way in this life. I have been around people that are
particular, picky, and not very happy lately – it’s so much easier and plesant
to be the other way – for yourself and all those you are around.
We had a nice nursing staff meeting. Sandra had Soledad Trejo make Mexican food
for our breakfast at staff meeting. It
was Nurse’s Week. It was good, and
everyone enjoyed it.
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