Miranda did this a month or so ago. I suppose I am allowed to do so as well, just from my point of view.
Chloe:
For no particular reason, I will start with our youngest. Chloe, or Coco as she is apt to be called, is in her second year of preschool, and she absolutely loves it. She is truly a social creature, and preschool gives her an outlet for that. She usually runs in each morning, greeting her friends by name. She has many of the traits of a leader, and I have jokingly said that we need to make sure that she uses her powers for good instead of evil! She is strong-willed and very independent, but at the same time, she has an incredibly sensitive heart. Her laughter is one of my favorite sounds.
Jordyn:
Jordyn is in the first grade, and she is truly excelling academically. She has developed a true love for learning, and I hope we can continue to build upon it. She loves to read, and is often found with a book in her hands. (Come to think of it, Coco has an affinity for books as well, and she can’t even read yet! I wonder where they learned to love the written word?) Of the two, Jordyn is more shy, but she is apparently overcoming this. In fact, when I asked her teacher about her shyness, her teacher looked at me like I was talking about another child! I suppose she really has come a long way, but it is hard to see when you have a child as naturally gregarious as Chloe is. Jordyn usually shows a true servant’s heart; she truly enjoys helping others.
Miranda:
My bride recently experienced her second promotion less than a year. She is now the manager of the lab at LensCrafters. She has worked in the optical field ever since we married almost eleven years ago. She started with Wal-Mart Vision Centers and was with them for three years. She started as an optician, and was promoted to management a short time later. When we moved to the Montgomery area, LensCrafters began to recruit her pretty heavily. They had a pattern at that time of recruiting Wal-Mart Vision Center managers. When she joined the company, she was one of three former Wal-Mart managers working at her LensCrafters location. She worked retail for a while, but eventually moved into the lab. She truly enjoys what she does, and I think she is excited by the challenge of making the lab her own. When she has spare time, she is often found constructing a scapbook page of one sort or another.
Blair:
I am now in my sixth year at SEHS and my eleventh year in education. I finished my Master’s at the end of the summer, and somehow or another, I was able to pull it off with a 4.0. I didn’t even slow down – I enrolled for fall semester to begin work on my Ed.S. (Educational Specialist). At my current pace, I will finish it by the end of fall semester next year. Hopefully, I will then transfer to Auburn’s main campus where I will complete my Ed.D. I am not sure how long that will take, but I have been told anywhere from a year and a half to two years. At that rater, I will cease to be “Mr. A.” and become “Dr. A.” before my fortieth birthday.
So that is pretty much it. Anything that I forgot to mention, feel free to ask.