Susan Hilfer:  

Wow! My kids challenged me to join the Facebook age and now I'm going to try this. It was exciting to see all of your names and the memories of growing up in Devine came rushing back. I hope that the Lord has blessed your years and that you all have stories to share. I have traveled with my husband of 39 years (Roger) as he served as a Navy pilot and we've had more adventures than there is room to write. During that time we had two children, Matthew and Marie and now we are grandparents (the greatest thing ever!) to Wyatt (Marie & John's son, 11 years old) and Emma (Matthew & Sarah's daughter, 3 months old). I taught school for a short time before we had children and then later homeschooled them when we lived in California. (Now that was an adventure!) After moving to Virginia I was a church secretary for a number of years, where I learned to use a computer and developed many more gifts that I didn't even know that I had--like handling bulk mailing! After Roger retired from his second job, we settled on 5.5 acres in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in western Virginia. We love country life and although I can't believe that I really like gardening and canning, since I didn't like helping with it back in high school, it is amazing how rewarding it is. I guess that it is all in the perspective! We ha...Expand for more