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Dear Friend,
I'm over-flowing with excitement over the weekend just past. (Hopefully I won't start blubbering with emotions!)
I'll start with a little background so you know why this was so BIG for me.
My Kroeker grandparents had 11 children. My mom was the oldest daughter, but the very youngest of them was my most favourite of all her siblings. Uncle Henry was a teen, living with his parents when I was a young school girl. His other siblings had mostly all moved to BC and raised their children there. I did get to know the other aunts and uncles as they usually came back for a visit once a year or two.
Uncle Henry had a dream of becoming a doctor, however it turned out he had an allergy to the water doctors must use to wash their hands. So he switched to becoming a teacher.
Eventually he met Frieda. They married and Uncle Henry got his first teaching job; a one room country school not far from Hague where our family lived at that time. So we got to see the first of their five sons as they came along.
Ken: became and is a school teacher still. (His class is assembling an elephant skeleton in their room!) Ken & Carol have 3 girls, all married now with babies! & one son, Matthew, who has just graduated from teachers' college and has a girlfriend, hopes to be a teacher like his Dad.
Robert: married Linda and they adopted a boy & girl who needed parents. But Robert died during a brain surgery. Linda, taught kindergarten for years, but is now in a grandma role.
Stanley: became a doctor! He married Denise, and they had twin girls, who are both doctors now. Lauren now partners with her dad in his clinic. Jenna and her husband are both doctor in New York, Both daughters have had a baby girl, and one of them has just delivered her 2nd!
They also have a son, Hudson, who is an Optometrist, and his wife is a surgical nurse. They recently had a a baby girl!
Glen: is a train engineer, and married to Deanna (a long- time Head nurse in a small hospital, but she told me she is now visiting seniors in a Care Home.) Their 3 children, 2 girls and a son, are now going to college to become school teachers. ...maybe the oldest 2 are done.
(I've been guessing that they have observed that their cousins in Ken/Carol's family have summers off and go on trips all over the world, making teaching a great choice of a career, right?)
Kevin: The 5th son of Uncle Henry & Aunt Frieda, is the tallest of them all. His wife Jena is considerably shorter, but each of them are running a VA business on line (Virtual Assistant). They have no children, but are very gentle and tender with everyone they meet. I was glad to have some visiting time with them; they came from Victoria, BC, so I haven't seen them since the last Kroeker anniversary/Reunion of about 2010.
There were some sheets on the tables for guessing games, but mostly they took as many photos of every grouping of their family groups, and then also with the guests that showed up.
Apparently, they had planned a program but Aunt Frieda had said that she'd rather the people just be allowed to visit freely. That happened and flowed naturally.
A great buffet supper was served, and much visiting and catching up with one another.
The saddest part was to see how blind Uncle Henry has become. Knowing what a caring people-person he has always been, he missed out on so much chatter and visiting that he could hear all around him, but not see.
I was touched by how the sons and the daughters-in-law would go behind him and explain some things to him, talking into his ear, so he was not left totally in darkness. He is 90 now.
I had the blessings also, of having my brother Ernie and Dori to come from Winnipeg, bringing along my youngest sister, Erma, who had come to them from New Hamburg, Ontario. We spent two days together, sharing the same hotel room in two places, getting to know one another better - since we only get together every few years. So this was a huge treat!
Blessings & Prayers, Ruth Friesen
P.S. The results from last week's test showed that my formal arrangement for my emails meant that some email providers blocked it leaving you behind in my news. I'll come more informally now.
If you need any help with setting up a domain and free emails that you can control... let me know. I may be able to fix you up for a very low annual cost - (in the range of $5-10/yr) and we can correspond more freely.
I didn't get time last week to check with some women who have far more experience than I do. They may have even better suggestions.
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