Blessings and plane tickets

Toni sent me this e-mail yesterday, and I think this is just so very typical of Grandma and Grandpa. Thank you so much for sharing this story with the family.

IN 1973 Howard decided we were moving to Hawaii. The beginning of March he sent me and Jeremey (5 months old) ahead and he stayed in Holbrook to complete his teaching contract. He moved in to Mom and Dad's Holbrook Trailer.

Those few months were really difficult. Jeremey was sick and I was taking him to the doctor every other week. Nothing helped. He would wake up about 11 pm and cry for hours. I had to take him outside so he wouldn't wake anyone else up. I was really homesick and living with the inlaws alone was hard. I didn't know how they wanted things done and unlike my own family they were very critical. After a couple of months Howard sent me a ticket to come back to Holbrook. It wasn't until I reached Holbrook that I discovered that Mom and Dad were worried about me and the baby and they purchased the ticket and told Howard to bring me back. That meant a lot to me. I knew they didn't have much money and even though then you could fly for less than $200 round trip, wages were similarly low.

I took Jeremey to our doctor in Holbrook and after hearing how often he had been sick the doctor did some tests and discovered that the baby was low in iron. Probably caused by the original sickness. He put him on iron and he literally was never sick again until he was 3 or 4. Not even a cold. He slept well the whole night through too. We returned to Hawaii in June. In Hawaii the baby again woke up everynight and we had to take him outside for a couple of hours. He did it until we moved out of the Lua house. Then never again. I have always thought that strange. I am ever grateful to Mom and Dad for that plane ticket.