Old Dog, Relearning the Tricks

Logan & Hanna pushing Connor in the stroller outside of Temple Square

My SIL is in his senior year at BYU and will graduate in April 2013.  We are incredibly proud of him and Hanna, his beautiful wife (who also happens to be our daughter).  He has risen to the challenge of BYU, and having graduated from Mercer, Hanna supported the family and worked through a difficult pregnancy.  They are both now working hard to establish their little family.

We just returned from our Thanksgiving visit to their little apartment in Provo, UT.  Hanna has fixed it up on a total shoestring budget and it looks wonderful.  (My mother said anyone could decorate great with money -- the real talent is decorating when you don't have any money!)  She is doing a great job... THEY are doing a great job.  From our little window into their world, in the four plus years they've been married they have become a true couple -- real partners in this life.  It's a beautiful thing to see.

And I learned a few things while I was there... or should I say "relearned...?"  One is that whatever role you are filling, do it with heart and soul.  Like Hanna.  When Connor was born this past spring she said that she finally feels she "found" herself.  She had become a wonderful and supportive wife, and now is  rapidly doing the same as a mother.  It's obvious in the way she's learning and putting what she's learned into practice.  You can tell she's in her element.  She is embracing her role as wife & mother.  She's embraced her role as an eternal partner to her husband.

Logan...  he tried and tried to get an internship this past summer, but it always eluded him.  It was hard on him.  Looking back it's almost easy to say it's because he needed to be home for Hanna and Connor for those first few months -- Hanna was a very new mom with no baby experience.  He did need to be home and that was a blessing. Other things seemed to "align" just right for them, too.  Easy to see in hindsight.  

What I "relearned" from Logan is to keep trying.  He recently landed a good job with Zion's Bank.  BUT it was only after sending out more than 50 resumes. He kept putting himself out there and didn't give up.  I had forgotten that.  I sent out nearly 100 when I graduated college (none of which landed me a job, but that's another story).  After having a good career path where I was able to work my way up w/in the organization it's very difficult to get the mindset of starting all over again.  But I have to do that.

So bottom line, this old (relatively) old dog is relearning some good life lessons.  Wherever role I find myself playing, be the best I can be, and I HAVE to put myself out there, and out there, and out there until I find a good job again.  To have the faith that somehow it WILL work out.