* Being a "widow" with 6 kids much of the time
* Kathi's beginning love affair with guinea pigs & learning that they can't be left out in the
sun very long (especially if they are black)
* Young Jim's love affair with books (or most likely his love of competition)
* Debbie's continuing love of dancing and dancing lessons (she was getting good!) She even
gave lessons to the neighbor kids on our back patio.
* Jeanie's special friendship with Stephanie, our blind next door neighbor
* Rochelle, the quiet achiever in school, great reader and student, but not as competitive as
Jim.
* A little two-year-old boy on his seagull-decorated tricycle, dressed as a cricket, riding in
the 24th of July Primary celebration.
* A visit from my good friend, Irene Laycock, who came from Novato to do a
Primary workshop for our teachers.
* A trip back to Novato by myself to speak at a Primary workshop for her. I drove
all the way without getting lost. Those who know me know that that is a near miracle.
* Spending a lot of money buying our first encyclopedias, Childcraft, and Science Year books
We wanted our children to have good books available to help them with school work.
* Discovering that renters rarely take care of someone else's property. I'm talking about our
home back in Novato that we rented. When Jim drove there to check on it he found it a
wreck, so we decided to fix it up and put it on the market.
After two years in Huntington Beach, Jim received a change of responsibility at Hughes, and a transfer to the facility in Canoga Park. He would no longer be the director over field engineering which meant no more long-distance traveling ... Yea! He was made a supervisor over design requirements for missiles and missile launchers being used in the Vietnam war. So here we go again ... another move. But this time we had the hope that this move would be a permanent one.
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