Merry
Christmas everyone! This year’s letter is my first eco-friendly online letter.
Even my dearest friends and family will need to log onto Jeff’s blog this year.
Our family has become very environmentally friendly in 2013, partially due to
some rough financial times. We manage to get by, but we had to move to Midvale.
I
have learned so many lessons from being poor enough to live in Midvale. I am
still involved in community theater and my non-profit organization, I am
training for an Ultra, learning Tagalog and teaching yoga. However, I had to
give up having my hair blown out every day. It is for the best since I really
can’t drive to the salon in our 1981 Chevette.
I
also formed a support group for women who have had the same affliction as I
did. It is more traumatic than you would think when you wake up from surgery to
find that your new implants were put on your back. Surprisingly, there are many
in Clearfield who have experienced the same thing. We formed an advocacy and
support group called Full Frontal to make sure that future generations don’t
deal with this affliction as we did. We have had some great donations from
local businessmen.
The
house looks nice even though we are using the same decorations we had last year
and that it is in Midvale. It is funny how $60,000 in decorations just don’t
sparkle like they do when they are new. It could have been that Jeff had to
scrape some of the silver plating off the nativity to pay our electrical bill.
He keeps saying that he needs to pull the teeth out of the camel to sell
the ivory. Now I know exactly how Fantine from Les Miserables felt.Jeff changed jobs this year. He currently works for some organization that helps disabled children with parents in prison to find food and clothing. He says that it is the most fulfilling job he has ever had and he is truly finding himself. I think it is great that he is helping people, but I want to move out of Midvale. To be honest, I am also concerned that he is turning into a democrat.
Jefanie had enough credits from both Cal and Florida that she could just transfer to BYU and finish her degree in one semester this fall. She met a lovely young man, Dallin, and in three weeks they were engaged. Jefanie and Dallin are so happy and I love that they will be living with us! Jefanie is going to be valedictorian at BYU a graduation this spring, was homecoming queen at all three universities and has created an organization that provides warm shoes for mountain goats all before her 18th birthday. Dallin is studying architecture so I am going to have him design a new office for No Pay Shui. It is such a sweet relationship a mother in law can have with her son in law and I just know that he feels the same way.
Cymphanie has become nerdy like her dad and is really into math. She keeps talking about equality this and equality that. To be honest, it is really over my head. She keeps putting these equal sign stickers on everything. Our 1981 Chevette broke down after she put a sticker on the bumper because it couldn’t handle the extra weight. She has made some friends here in Midvale that Jeff says are great for our little 15 year old. They have helped her with her sousaphone playing and her grades are much better. I just hope she doesn’t get used to them.
Our
son is getting really big and doing wel (don’t forget to write about him this
year).
My
vita-chicken business Xtrafowl went under due to a law suit by the State of
Utah. Apparently, you are held liable if your raise intelligent nutritious
chickens that invade the Salt Lake Valley in an attempt to improve the air
quality with their high antioxidant droppings. Unfortunately, Mr. Clucky
and his horde ran into the feral cat colony of my Ringos. Although the chickens
had a tactical and technological advantage, there were just too many Ringos. It
was a battle never before seen in multilevel marketing. Anyway, the loss of
chicken inventory led us to not have enough money to bribe the Attorney General
like everyone else so we lost everything.
They
never found Mr. Clucky in the aftermath, so he may be in hiding.
We hope you all have a happy holiday season. Merry Christmas!
Love,
Jeff, Stephanie, Jefanie, Cymfanie and the rest.
