Well this is a good year for me to be involved in a ‘Most Romantic Husband’ contest; I’m kind of proud of my Valentine’s Day gift this year. Here’s the story: In early January Becky commented to me that she likes getting flowers, except that they are so expensive and they die soon. Well that got me thinking about a substitute that doesn’t die so quickly. At school the next afternoon I commented to a friend that I want to make origami roses for Becky and he helped me find a website with a good tutorial and hooked me up with the origami paper. Origami is one of his hobbies. In case anyone is interested, here is the rose I made: http://www.origami-fun.com/origami-rose.html. I’m glad I started early because it took me a couple of weeks before I could even fold it. My first 10 roses looked more like roses that had been picked, chewed up by a dog, and spit back out, than anything you would want to give to your wife. Eventually I got something that resembled an actual rose. Every day for a couple of weeks I made one rose, twelve in all. It was actually a nice break from my studies. I found that I enjoy origami. I made the stems out of craft paper and shish-ka- bob sticks. I made some leaves to glue to the stems, and then I glued the flowers on top of that. I’ll attach a couple of photos of my bouquet.
Becky and I think we have found a house for my 3rd and 4th year of med school. As I mentioned in an earlier post, we are moving 50 miles West of our current location to a city called Beckley. I will be stationed at a hospital there for much of my next 2 years. We chose to move to Beckley rather than commute as many of our friends are doing. About a month ago I was sitting up in my room at school studying when I got a phone call from someone I did not know. She said that she knew my wife from some service that Becky did over a year ago and that she learned we are looking for a house in Beckley. She said that she and her husband have a house in Beckley that they want to rent out. We went and looked at it yesterday and are happy to say that it looks like it will meet our needs, at a price we can afford. The location isn’t ideal, it’s near a main road, but it will meet our needs. It sits on a double lot too, so we’ll have plenty of room for a garden, and room to be outside. We feel that Heavenly Father has watched over us and helped us find this house. We are still looking for an additional car though. This moving and expanding is expensive stuff.
We wish each of you the best of success this month.
Stewart, Becky, and Sophie
1 comment:
That's awesome that you found a good housing situation!
I do warn you though, once you move into a house, your stuff reproduces (no matter how hard you try to keep everything separated) and somehow takes up a bunch more space, making moving back into an apartment very hard.
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