This summer is very busy for us. I'm teaching 8 piano students, plus the kids are in swimming lessons, then I work out three mornings with a girlfriend, and have a playgroup one other morning a week. And I signed the girls up for a tumbling class to see how they like it. WHEW!! At this tumbling class I happened to run into an old friend from our ward who moved out to Hooper several years ago. I knew her daughter took dance at the same studio because I ran into her at last years dance recital. At that time she told me a funny story about her son Jacob who is Moira's age. They were in Sunbeams together years ago and apparently at that time Jacob was quite taken with Moira (I mean who wouldn't be, she's adorable!).
Well fast forward to last year and Jacob's grandmother was teasing him about "marrying" another little girl who was a cutie. Jacob furiously announced that he was going to marry Moira and nobody else. So when the grandma returned Jacob to his mother she asked who this Moira person was that had Jacob ready to commit at age 5. The mom, Elizabeth, was equally surprised since they hadn't seen our family for two years at that point.
Okay, now fast forward to this year when Jacob and Moira are now 6. Remember it's been three years since they've seen each other. We walk in the first day of tumbling class, which the big sister is also taking during the summer, and Jacob just goes ballistic at sight of Moira. Elizabeth and I just looked at each other and started giggling. I mean, what do you do? Then Elizabeth tells me that a few weeks previously Jacob had volunteered the information that he was going to grow up, marry Moira, become a fireman or a dentist, then move to the ocean (Oregon, I think) and have mom over for Sunday dinners. So then when he saw Moira again, well, of course he was ecstatic! They are a great family and I would be perfectly happy in say, fifteen years if things worked out. In the meantime, Elizabeth went home and told her husband Steve about the whole thing. Steve accused her of encouraging it but she swears she doesn't say anything. I'm thinking it's all Jacob because the second week of classes when given the choice to stay home and play or go sit and wait at tumbling for an hour, he elected to come and sit at tumbling with his mom. You have to admire his constancy. WOW!!!
