rooffam.jpg (4579 bytes)By way of brief background; We have been living in St. Paul, MN since October 2004. We are retired and moved to Blacksburg, VA in March 1998 after living in Duluth, MN for nearly 30 years. We moved back to Minnesota to be nearer our children and grand children. In Duluth we enjoyed some skiing, ice skating, child rearing, sailboating on Lake Superior, motorcycling, and working at steady jobs. In Blacksburg, home of Virginia Tech, we became interested in some of the cultural events happening, did quite a bit of bicycling, movies, reading, woodworking, sports car driving and other things. Now in St. Paul we are looking to continue some of our past interersts and find new ones.

In Duluth, Peggy taught in an elementary school classroom and also taught children with special learning and behavior problems. Gene did counseling and psychotherapy, social service administration, program evaluation, data analysis, and social service contracting.

We have traveled in Europe, Zimbabwe, United States, Canada, South America and Mexico and look forward to more of that. We have enjoyed classical and jazz music, reading, stage performances, and we look forward to more of that also. The various rooms will give you added ideas about our interests and activities..

We have also enjoyed our children and their families. We look forward to more of that as well. And, we look forward to continuing relationships with old friends and meeting new friends.

Having children is a great deal of work even though our children were good children, students and citizens.  Now they are good adults, workers, parents, and citizens and we enjoy their kindness and care a great deal. 

Below are  pictures of our three grandsons and our granddaughter.  They are wonderfully unexplainable beings.  A lot of work for their parents and not quite so much work for us, the grandparents.   

All are a great deal of fun for their grandparents.  As they learn about their world and interpret it through their eyes we are the ones who learn of new ways to look at the world.  

We now know it can be amazing to march around the dining room table banging on pots and pans and we learn that the bark of a dog can be called thunder.   They point to things we no longer see with amazement, with wonder, with puzzlement, and with questions.   Lucky us to have the world once more pointed out.

 

Spencer
Ben
Annika
Carson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check out the attic and Megan's Web Page at http://home.earthlink.net/~meganbp/ other family pictures

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