Sunday evening -
December 28, 1980
Dearest Family --
Christmas seems like a long time ago now but it was so nice getting to talk to each of you -- if not in person -- on the phone. John and Carol picked up Serena at the Columbus bus station and got here around six Christmas Eve. We had plenty of snow that day so were a little worried about the roads. But they did get here safely. We all went to church at 11 PM that evening for the Christmas Eve services. Mary Virginia among others sang but the quartets were limited to one number (MV and Cherie Cooper were each asked to sing two -- don't know how the others felt about this but Va. Hildebrant said because they are younger they were given that opportunity).
We didn't get up early Christmas morning in spite of Mary Virginia's threat to waken all of us. I'm sure if Roberta had been here things would have been different. We had a late breakfast then opened our gifts and had a leisurely day. We had dinner about 4 PM and then John and Carol took off for Newark around 6:00 PM. He had to work Friday and then they had Saturday off and were going to Erie and he had Monday off to visit some bank operation up there.
I should have mentioned in the beginning of the letter that soon after we wrote our last letter we got a call from Los Angeles from Kyung Ho Kim's brother-in-law saying that Mie Young had arrived that evening and when did we want her to come to Ohio -- it was all such a shock -- though pleasant even if we had given up on the idea of her being able to come. Anyway he called the next day to say that arrangements had been made for her to fly direct to Columbus -- non-stop (3 hours) and we were to pick her up last Monday evening at the airport there. Her plane was late but did get in eventually and the airport is so torn up -- I hardly recognized it at all. She is a real sweet girl -- very quiet and bashful. A combination of everything got her off to a bad start -- upset stomach plus I am sure a lot of homesickness. Anyway, after several phone conversations between here and Wilmington and Korea -- she ended up going to visit some friends of her father's in Wilmington. He (Dr. Kim) is a OB-GYN specialist who practices with Dr. Goodwin. They have two children near her brother and sister's ages so it worked out well -- she stayed there and then we picked her up after taking Serena to the bus station in Dayton. We got home just in time to have a bite to eat and then both girls were off in a rush to the school to see Wilmington beat East Clinton in both basketball games. They were parked clear down to our house before 5:30 so you can see it was well attended.
Today we were invited down to Wib and Helen Carrs and such an elaborate feast she had prepared. We also went over to see Richard and his family. His wife Rita is expecting momentarily to go to the hospital. Their daughter is 11 and son is about 7. they are living in a home Richard's great grandfather built about the time of the Civil War -- maybe Wib's but it has two identical beautiful stair way, circular in the front and back of the house -- 12 foot ceilings. What a place to have to heat!
They must have given us almost 50 pounds of potatoes to take home with us for they said they wouldn't keep if the frost got them which undoubtably would -- wish you all were here to help us eat them or divide them up. Another fringe benefit of legal practice was a gift certificate to the Golden Lamb Hotel for dinner for the family.
They announced in Church today that the Bazaar cleared some $1844.00. Attendance was down today in SS and Church, tho believe we will end up the year in good shape with all the bills paid. Have had some nice orders come to Wells in the last few days, tho it seems that the customer list shrinks as the competition list grows. Luckily we are getting interest (now at 18%) rather than paying it out.
[Love, etc.]
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