2010 has been a year of trials for our family. After starting the year out freshly unemployed, we explored many different career options. We dedicated one bedroom to growing oyster mushrooms for profit, but found no one wanted to eat food grown on trash. Grammy help us out a whole lot, and helped me get work building a website for a friend of hers, but when it was done so was the work. Eventually I found work with Disco, a Japanese company that manufactures more then 80% of the world’s semiconductor dicers, grinders, and polishers. I will be the Laser Saw expert for Intel.
We spent most of the year without any income, but never went without. Whenever we were down to our last dime, something always came through. We were without health insurance, but never needed it. We learned how to adapt, and trust to fate. We’ve learned to trust our luck much more then in the old days.
Brandy and I built our own website (www.Life-Wharton.com) in order to house our creative ideas and hopefully make a few bucks. Although we’ve yet to take in enough profit to cover operating costs, we intend to keep the website up as a repository for our creativity and a way to explore mystical experience (If you’ve never had one you should). As time passes our website will grow and change with us. It is a reflection of ourselves in the virtual world. Our family’s foothold in the web, sharing ourselves with the world.
Elysia (6) started 1st grade this year, and has started attending Girl Scouts. Three years ago she made the decision she was a vegetarian, I figured it was a phase that she would soon forget about. Three years later, and she still takes her vegetarianism very seriously. We are so incredibly proud of her self-confidence and commitment to what she feels is right for her. She has experienced much more judgment and ridicule from classmates, friends and family, then I ever thought such a young child could bare. I don’t understand why people take such offense to her decision, but her steadfastness on her beliefs has been an inspiration to us.
Egan (4) discovered the Xbox this year, and has been great at getting his chores done ever since. He’s always been such a laid back guy, punishments never seemed to have much impact. We’d tell him to go to time-out, and he’d just go like he was planning on doing that anyway. If we ever spanked him, he would retreat inward and anything we said after word was met with glassy eyes. But we threaten to take the Xbox away... he’s all ears and will do whatever it takes.
Roslynn (2) is a Honey butt. The sweetest, most caring little girl, except when she’s not. Egan is often on the receiving end of her evil side. She knows just how to push him around, and he never shows any aggression back. He knows that you never hit a girl. Even when we’re playing and I play boxing with them, he’ll say “Stop dad! You don’t hit girls”. Unfortunately Roslynn has yet learned to reciprocate. When she gets a time-out for hitting her brother, we tell her she needs to apologize, normally she refuses and we have to send her back to time-out. She’s spent a considerable amount of time in the corner on a number of occasions before she was willing to let go of her stubbornness. She even spent a few weeks refusing to leave time-out if she felt she was sent there unfairly.
The road of life has taken us many places and yet there is so much more to explore. We are thankful for every moment we have together and for everyone who shares our journey with us.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Jason, Brandy, Elysia, Egan and Roslynn Jay
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