Your Mom Goes to College

I guess my ecclesiastical endorsement came through. It's all provisional though, as long as I can pass Student Development 100 by November 1st. Bishop Twiggs asked if he really had to go over the dress and grooming standards with me. President Wankier said he hopes I meet a really nice boy at college.

But I am going to finish my Bachelor's degree at BYU, because, frankly, I'm getting tired of all of the "Finish What You Started" postcards I keep getting from them! They wore me down. It's been about 29 years since I vowed I would finish my degree when babies grew up and Kerry was finished with college. Time has a way of passing quickly, and my baby is 14, Kerry has been gainfully employed for at least 26 years, and I'm not getting any younger. So I might as well. I'm excited. I have 8 years to finish it, but I don't think it will take that long.

When we lived at Wymount Terrace with all of the other groovy young couples, we were very typical - one baby, husband finishing a degree, wife staying home with the baby. It was not common then for a young mother to finish college, at that point you just let your husband finish, and you put it on hold for later or never.

So with this Bachelor of General Studies degree, I could choose from 8 areas of emphasis. Most of them did not tempt me in the least. It came down to psychology or writing. I was going to do psychology because it sounds more impressive, and also interesting, but I never took a psych class before and it's not really a degree in Psychology, it's a General Studies Degree, no matter what. For writing, I can count all of my foreign language, communications, and English credits from 1978, of which I had quite a few, so that made the most sense. Maybe I will write better blog posts one day.

oh and

Your Mom and Dad have been married 30 years. You know who else is having a 30th anniversary this year? The Cheesecake Factory. We went to lunch there on Saturday, and wanted to bring Emily a piece of cheesecake home because she loves it so. I was looking on the cheesecake menu for something she might like (chocolate and with no nuts), and voila, there it was: 30th Anniversary Chocolate Cake Cheesecake





We also went through a session at the Salt Lake Temple, my first time to be inside, and another first - the Rodizio Grill. Of course, what 30th anniversary trip would be complete without a trip to IKEA, where I got this cool sugar shaker. It's not exactly pearls, but I like it.