Hopkins 2008 year end report:
Well, as you all already know the financial report this year is in the toilet.
So let’s just skip right to the basics:
1. We wish you all a merry Christmas and a very Happy New year in 2009.
2. Bailouts are alive and well, but the Hopkins’ kids all appear to be solvent and self sufficient!! Miracles never cease.
3. Megan is finishing her last semester at Northern Arizona U, and is then planning to go on to Graduate school, although she still keeps in close contact with GE and with all her siblings. She is truly the surrogate mom. I guess that’s what being #1 is all about.
4. Ariane and Alon are busy running their own business and raising the two most beautiful granddaughters ever born. Alon will get his permanent green card finally in January after a record wait with the US Immigration Service. Nola is in kindergarten and Talia goes to the Hebrew preschool. It’s hard to believe how quickly they grow.
5. Michael and Becky are in Arkansas. Mike is working on his Master’s degree in Spanish and Becky is teaching art. Of course they are busy raising the most handsome grandson ever born.
6. Charlie bought a house this year and is remodeling the upstairs. It’s a do-it-yourself project and it looks great. He is nearly finished with his degree at ASU and continues working at GE having taken over from Megan there.
7. Maren still digs her work. She just uncovered the oldest prehistoric canal yet discovered in this area, and as she worked her way up through the levels she discovered pit houses that are the most recent prehistoric structures in the area. What a find.
8. Morris works for the Tibetan Buddhist Research Center in Manhattan, in charge of the digital library. He loves his work and he loves his girlfriend, Seung Hee, whom he is marrying on January 24. We couldn’t be happier for him! We are of course planning a trip to NYC toward the end of January!
9. Steven is living in Brooklyn working for Ari and Alon. He has discovered the big city and likes it. He is working hard, making money and planning to go to school in NYC next August.
10. Graham, our baby boy, is 18 and attending Pima College in Tucson. He comes home occasionally and keeps us entertained.
11. Finally: Mike and I are basking in the sunshine in Rio Rico. We invite you to come and visit whenever it strikes your fancy to travel this way. We keep busy with family history, with reading good books, taming the yard, and planning fabulous future vacations. We have had a few medical scares, but so far they have all turned out to be benign and we hope they remain that way! That closes out the year, so we will begin to Plan now for a prosperous and pleasant Next Year from our house to yours. (Don’t forget to plant a garden.)
Love,
The HOPKINS.
P.S. We love you more than words can say--beyond infinity!!
Well, as you all already know the financial report this year is in the toilet.
So let’s just skip right to the basics:
1. We wish you all a merry Christmas and a very Happy New year in 2009.
2. Bailouts are alive and well, but the Hopkins’ kids all appear to be solvent and self sufficient!! Miracles never cease.
3. Megan is finishing her last semester at Northern Arizona U, and is then planning to go on to Graduate school, although she still keeps in close contact with GE and with all her siblings. She is truly the surrogate mom. I guess that’s what being #1 is all about.
4. Ariane and Alon are busy running their own business and raising the two most beautiful granddaughters ever born. Alon will get his permanent green card finally in January after a record wait with the US Immigration Service. Nola is in kindergarten and Talia goes to the Hebrew preschool. It’s hard to believe how quickly they grow.
5. Michael and Becky are in Arkansas. Mike is working on his Master’s degree in Spanish and Becky is teaching art. Of course they are busy raising the most handsome grandson ever born.
6. Charlie bought a house this year and is remodeling the upstairs. It’s a do-it-yourself project and it looks great. He is nearly finished with his degree at ASU and continues working at GE having taken over from Megan there.
7. Maren still digs her work. She just uncovered the oldest prehistoric canal yet discovered in this area, and as she worked her way up through the levels she discovered pit houses that are the most recent prehistoric structures in the area. What a find.
8. Morris works for the Tibetan Buddhist Research Center in Manhattan, in charge of the digital library. He loves his work and he loves his girlfriend, Seung Hee, whom he is marrying on January 24. We couldn’t be happier for him! We are of course planning a trip to NYC toward the end of January!
9. Steven is living in Brooklyn working for Ari and Alon. He has discovered the big city and likes it. He is working hard, making money and planning to go to school in NYC next August.
10. Graham, our baby boy, is 18 and attending Pima College in Tucson. He comes home occasionally and keeps us entertained.
11. Finally: Mike and I are basking in the sunshine in Rio Rico. We invite you to come and visit whenever it strikes your fancy to travel this way. We keep busy with family history, with reading good books, taming the yard, and planning fabulous future vacations. We have had a few medical scares, but so far they have all turned out to be benign and we hope they remain that way! That closes out the year, so we will begin to Plan now for a prosperous and pleasant Next Year from our house to yours. (Don’t forget to plant a garden.)
Love,
The HOPKINS.
P.S. We love you more than words can say--beyond infinity!!
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