There is so much he is good at and so many gifts that God has given him, yet he is always so humble about them. I think, sometimes to a fault, but it's better than being arrogant! I am just so impressed that he can doing all that thinking (things I can't even imagine to understand) and then come home and be such a good Papa. I would think that anybody would just want a few minutes to unwind and relax a bit after all that, but not him. The moment he's through the door (and the shoes are off) he's ready to play.
It's such a relief to know that his family comes first (well, besides God). Remember that amazing opportunity I told you about earlier about working with Dr. Wuosmaa? Well, it turns out that he has his grad students traveling a lot... like sometimes months at a time and Gaetan, without even hesitating, said that it wasn't for him. I appreciate the fact that he would rather be home with us, but I know that there are a lot of people that would jump at the opportunity. There were a handful of other factors that went into turning Dr. Wuosmaa down, but I know, because of his faithfulness to his family, and the Lord, God presented another wonderful opportunity for him!
He accepted a researching position, starting this summer, with another well known and well connected Prof at WMU. He will be funded by NASA and will be working on the Quantum Defect Theory for theoretical molecular physics... whew! Apparently it is pretty original and he can work on this for his thesis if it's something he's interested in after the summer. This also means that he doesn't have to teach labs anymore so he can focus mostly on research and classes. :) And because it's theoretical he doesn't have to travel (like with Wuosmaa it was experimental) and it sounds like he's going to be home a lot more! And after classes are done then we could see about maybe moving west... to Seattle... but let's not get ahead of ourselves quite yet :)
So pretty much he is amazing, and wonderful and good looking. :) I know that we didn't get to do something special on his birthday, but hopefully we can go on another date to celebrate all his accomplishments. We are extremely blessed to have you in our lives, to be the head of this house and the comfort in knowing that you are making your decisions from the One who really counts. We love you so very much.
This is a picture of the first time I ever laid eyes on Gaetan. This is the tutor picture board at GVSU that I stole because he's dreamy and now it's on our fridge. haha
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Haha! Tutor picture! Did you tell me you did this at one point? So something you would think of doing :) Happy Belated Birthday Gaetan and congratulations on the new position!
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