Karen & Mark's youngest son.
Stephen had his White Coat ceremony Friday night. He starts medical school at Michigan State University, in two weeks.
Madeleine is safely back home after two weeks in Guatemala--she went to just visit her host Momma and ended up helping to build another house.
Quite the family
Lets see:
#2 child, Susanna Elaine: got a Track scholarship to Grand Valley State University (Grand Rapids, MI), lives in Portland, OR. , works for New Balance shoe company, travels all over the states and runs in marathons.
#1 child, Helene Mary: Master's Degree in some sort of satellite engineering. Lives in Ann Arbor with her hubs Mike, expecting a baby girl in October, works for a government contract company, viewing images from satellites in space.
#3 child, Marcus James: Master's Degree in Nuclear Engineering. Lives in Ann Arbor, works for the largest electric supply company in the State, in their nuclear power plant.
Mom Karen Helene: Master's Degree in education. Teaches math at a Catholic girls high school Home schooled all five children.
# 5 child, Madeleine Sophia: Studying nursing at a local community college. Wants to be an Elder Care nurse. Dances ballet. Builds homes in poor countries in South America.
#4 child, Stephen Charles: Just graduated with a degree in Physiology. Starts medical school. Wants to be an ER doctor.
...and I suppose I should mention their father: Mark Thomas, who also has a Master's Degree in the same field as Helene and she works with him at the same company. What they do is quite secretive.
Quite the family.
PROUD heritage! Congrats to you! Just two of my siblings finished college. Two married nurses. One married a Dr. My Dad finished 8th grade, my Mom high school. And here I live in Paradise! Life is like a box of chocolates!
ReplyDeleteHow accomplished they are. You should be proud. It's wonderful when they reach their potential.
ReplyDeleteVery impressive family. Mark and Karen have done well raising good kids who make a difference in the world.
ReplyDeleteQuite the family, indeed. Bragging rights allowed. :)
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I know you must be SO proud of them all...great brain genes!
ReplyDeleteYOU ought to go back to school! I think you'd do great at anything you do!
hughugs
Quite the family INDEED! and yes you have every right to brag and be super proud! :)
ReplyDeleteQuite the family INDEED! and yes you have every right to brag and be super proud! :)
ReplyDeletequite a brilliant group and they aren't bad looking either!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteyou have a right to brag
this is wonderful
I am proud along with you and smile in my heart
and to think you are their grandma :)
Your daughter home schooled these children? Blows my mind that one can have a mother who not only signs the report card but creates the report card. And they still love her! (Mustn't have gotten too many D's). Clearly your daughter is doing something right. Home schooling.... is that something you did, too?
ReplyDeleteI barely passed 6th grade Arithmetic--no home schooling for me.
DeleteKaren was dismayed at what they were teaching children, even in the first grade, so she formed a group of mother's who also wanted to home school. They got their kids schooled and when the kids started high school, their morals were in place and they graduated with high marks and unscathed with the more liberal policies.
What a nice family!
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