Dear Mom and Dad,
Hello!!! It was good to hear from you this past week. We are really happy with how the pictures turned out of everyone. It was good seing pictures of you, and we can't wait to see you at Christmas time. We will probably leave here on the 19th or 20th and head back on the 26th. I am sure you appreciate the fact that I only have one week off, as I hae heard you mention the same Mom, and how it seems like hardly anything.
Carolyn is doing pretty well these last two days. Since the start she has been taking things a lot easier this time, and it seems to really make a difference. She gets a shot every week, and she also takes Bendectin religiously. She does just about everything right, and she still has some bad days, but it is starting to seem that she is having lots of good days. She is doing well in her upholstry class and is starting to recover the chair.
I am doing fairly well. Today I will get reviewed at work again, and I'm hoping (again) that I will get a good raise. I am already the highest paid worker in production, with only three of the supervisors making more than me. Everyone else that started the same time as I did, are making less than $4.00 per hour. I wouldn't be in this position if we hadn't changed general managers, as the old one, really didn't do his job, and seemed to feel threatened by anyone who did. Skip, the new general manager really seems to respect me, and leaves a lot of the decisions concerning any aspect of capsulating up to me.
I just took a midterm in Small-group Decision Making yesterday and did quite well. I'm sure I got an A. The class is graded on just two midterms. I'm doing well in most of my other classes but the rest are some of the boringest classes I've ever had at BYU. The main reason is the teachers, and most people that I talk to seem to feel the same about these men.
Mom-I threw away the other letter I had written to you about me and my education, as it was written in king of a negative tone. You are right, it would have been easier if I had finished college before getting married, but who says that life has to be easy. I'm happier today than I've ever been, and I really am starting to feel good about myself. I am 1. doing the very thing that the Lord would want me to in having a family, 2. working hard to support my little family, 3. going to college on a regular basis with the intent of finishing my education. On point number three--I realise that it is very possible to graduate from an institution such as BYU in four years. To do this would require that from the very start that I take exactly and no less than 16 hours of classes every semester, and that would also mean an average of 32 hours of homework every semester, which would leave absolutely no time or at least not enough time to be both a good husband and father, and also support a family. Now as I was telling Dad on the phone, I checked with BYU and the average student takes 10.5 semesters to graduate with a Bachelors degree. I am currently in my 7th semester and I am keeping up with the average. I'm sorry that things aren't the same as they were when you went to school. We live in times of very high costs, and rapid inflation, two things that I know you are very much aware of. We and expecially I have appreciated the money that you have loaned us and the car which you are so generously selling to us in the past. sincer we are making this decision to finish college even if it is going to take longer than the time that you think it should, we have not in the past, nor will we in the future ask you for any help in achieving this goal. I really do understand how you feel as I know what it takes to earn that amount of money. When you have offered to help us we have accepted it but we haven't come and outright asked you for anything, as we are responsible for this decision. I really am grateful for all of the help you have given me in achieving this goal, and I will try to do some type of restitution if I get the chance in the future. You are the best parents a person could ask for, and I am glad to know that you do really love me, and worry about me. I don't mind being mothered even at my ollld age.
This week we are the proud new owners of a stereo cabinet. Tim gave it to me for helping out at his store. It is about 4 1/2 feet tall and it is walnut with a smoked glass door. It is really beautiful, and it sells for about $140. It is just what we needed to protect it from little Jonathan.
Jonathan doesn't stop. We put him to bed at about 7 in the evening and he wakes up at around 7 in the morning. He gets up and instead of crying he turns on his light and starts playing in his crib. We can hear him in there talking to his toy bunnies, and when he has had enough, usually an hour or so, he will take a rattle and start to bang on the wall until someone else wakes up. He can stand on his own now, but it frightens him, so he usually just crawls like a little rocket and is constantly busy, playing investigating and eating.
We pray that all is well with you, and we miss you.
Love,
Kerry and Carolyn
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