Miss Becky's Blog

Welcome to My BLOG ...

Welcome to my new, updated BLOG! I'm looking forward to communicating more with all of you. I hope you'll visit my BLOG offen to practice your English, think about some new ideas and share our lives. I'll post a variety of essays, poems, news items and stories about my family. You are invited to e-mail me at: missbecky @xmission.com to share your life happenings and stories.

Since leaving China in June of 2004, my life has been busy helping and supporting different family members; teaching a Sunday School class in my Church and serving as a volunteer teacher/facilitator for an addiction recovery group for women at our local county jail.

My husband, Ken (Smiley), has spend the last three years serving as a volunteer basketball coach at Centennial High School in Las Vegas, Nevada; where he was close to two of our children who lived there. This was living a "dream" for Ken. It was his goal in college to become a high school teacher and "coach", however he ended up working for 30 years at Utah State University in the Altheltic Department in a variety of jobs and really enjoyed his work ... much of what he did, he would have done for "free" because of his love of sports. He's had the great opportunity of being able to work as the assistant coach of the Freshman team for two seasons and last year he was the Head Coach and had the best season ever. This year, he led the Freshman team to the Championship (they lost only one region game). He really had a great group of young men to work with, one was a Chinese boy who had only been in the USA for a year.

We are both home in Logan, Utah now and Ken has started working with the Logan High School basketball team. He has already started taking some of the student/players to "camps" where they play games with other teams for practice and to learn more. He excited to be able to "coach" at the local school, as he LOVES living here in Logan ... and two our children who lived in Las Vegas have moved to different states.

Since we left China, we've welcomed two new grandchildren to our family; I lived with my son's family for four months to care for their two little girls while their mother finished teaching school that year; I've traveled to my son's home in Maryland several times to care for their children while my daughter-in-law had several medical procedures for a heart problem; I've helped move and support our daugther, Kara, to Boston where she is working on a PhD in Education -- in fact, Ken and I will be driving her car across country to her the end of this month; our son, Jason, has taken a new job in Logan, Utah and his family is living in our home now; I've spent a lot of time helping my parents who both have had health problems; my mother passed away on March 4th and I've taken my father to my daughter's home in Then just last Sunday evening, Ken (Smiley) suffered a heart attack. He is OK, the miracle of modern medicine saved his life and he is already home from the hospital and recovering well.

I promise to share more details and information about our lives on this blog and hope that you'll also share your lives with us, because YOU are part of our "extended Family" ... the family of "mankind" ... LOVE to you all ....

Miss Becky