Saturday, June 03, 2006



And these are our progeny: left to right, daughter Nancy, me (Don the aged), Dean now the eldest who also was born in Nigeria, in Kaduna in a British Colonial Hospital, Betty (and no, she does not dye her hair!), and our baby, Natalie, born in Jos, Nigeria, just 14 months after Nancy in a year that we shall not disclose (unless bribed!). We love our family, we strive to keep close to each even as we strove to stay close to our parents when they were still living and to our siblings who yet remain. Betty and I have lived everywhere, man. In addition to several places in Nigeria, Ghana, and briefly, Ethiopia, in the good old USA we have lived in Colorado (five years), South Carolina three different times--twice in Columbia and once in York County just south of Chalotte, N. C., in Pennsylvania, Ohio twice, Indiana, and New York three times. My father always lived in Susquehanna, Pa., and Betty's parents always lived in Mishawaka, Indiana. We have literally worn out more than one automobile traveling back and forth to keep in touch with our family. And they have done as much for us.

4 Comments:

At 9:52 AM, Blogger Dusty Penguin said...

And we surely appreciate all the miles that have been logged on trips to western NY. We love every visit. That was also an awesome time that we all had there in FL.

 
At 10:24 AM, Blogger Corey Adams said...

Nice family picture.

Corey

 
At 11:01 AM, Blogger Hannatu said...

You put on some air miles coming to Niger, too. We're so glad that both you and the DeValves made it to Niger and know what life is like in Tera. And those long, hot trips to Texas were the best. It would have been better if we hadn't had to go katty-cornered across Arkansas.

 
At 11:19 AM, Blogger Dusty Penguin said...

Speaking of trips--two of my favorite memories are the time mom drove from CO to IN in sucb blazing sunny weather that she actually sunburned her eyes, and the other one is the time dad drove up to Washington. Both trips were in the orange beetle.

 

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