Sweetness and Light

Here is a recent photo, taken February 2008, of our daughter Kelsy Renee. I am currently so happy she is living at home now after being gone for 2 and 1/2 years. You see, she left home about a week after she turned 16...to live in Utah with her older sister Amy and Amy's husband Fox. Kelsy enrolled in a brand new charter school up there...a high school that guarantees you will also have an associate degree by the time you have earned your high school diploma. The school had just opened its doors and we are grateful that Fox discovered it. Now there is a very long waiting list to get in. It is called Utah County Academy of Science....or UCAS for short.
Kelsy got very adept at riding the city bus and also showed tendencies for loving to walk outrageous distances after a hard day of school and work (she worked at Sonic, a fast food place..she was a car-hop on roller skates.)

After graduation, she attended University of Utah as an art major. After completing one semester (living in a dorm for a while and then living off campus in Salt Lake City), she moved home here to Victorville on what I like to call a creativity sabbatical. Since home, she has just been a wonderful presence of "sweetness and light" here. The dogs are getting much more attention and this old house doesn't seem so empty anymore. We have fun trying new things together. I am helping her fine tune her driving skills so she can take her driver's test. When I introduced her to my dabbling in raw food lifestyle, she eagerly read many of the books and even purchase a food dehydrator. She made some very tasty vegetable "crackers"..and we now process our raw nuts and sunflower seeds with it, soaking them overnight to get the enzyme inhibitors off and then drying them back to a state of crunchiness in the dehydrator.

Kelsy is adventurous, fun, creative, loving, kind to animals, artistic, disciplined, etc..etc...!!!! So glad to have her home for a while! Our baby!