[Oe List ...] Twins all grown up

[Nancy Lanphear]

What would this world be without Joan!?  What a story teller!

Nancy


On Nov 8, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Jfknutson at aol.com wrote:

> I could write a book about the twins.  I was in the San Francisco  
> house with the Wiegels when the twins were turning two.  Jim and  
> Judy were to take a trip around Area West to see what was happening  
> with the houses and four human development projects.  The rest of  
> us were whispering nervously to each other,  "Have you heard who is  
> going to be taking care of the twins and Jenny when they go?"  No  
> answer seemed to be apparent.  So at our last prior's meeting  
> before they left, I summoned up the courage to ask the question  
> aloud.  This was Jim's answer:  "It appears this house has an issue  
> with child care so we think we should ask the person that would  
> seem to be the most impossible to do it.  So we are asking Joan  
> Knutson ( I was the house prior and had a full time job!)  I would  
> get up an hour earlier (and I trust you will remember how early  
> that was, get dressed for work, put a house dress over my clothes,  
> get the bags packed, lunches packed and then tackle getting the  
> twins up, take them to worship, take them to children's breakfast,  
> retrieve them, clean them up again, take them to preschool, pull  
> the house dress off and went off to work looking like a perfectly  
> sane person.
>
> But the one story I tell any time I get the chance is when David  
> Rebstock was on child care.  Ellen had begged us not to put David  
> on child care.  We had about 12 children and she was convinced he  
> could not handle them and it would be a disaster.  We tried to  
> avoid asking David as every day he drove to San Jose (not an easy  
> commute) and had a very responsible job.  But one evening there was  
> no one else.  So David was on child care.  I was in a meeting in  
> the basement collegium room.  David was giving the children their  
> baths on the second floor.  He put the twins in one bathtub, two  
> more kids in a bathtub just down the hall, etc.  All of a sudden we  
> heard screams from the second floor.  Ellen looked and me and I  
> looked at her and we ran.  The twins had gotten out of the tub and  
> found a jar of Vaseline and had smeared it all over each other and  
> were screaming with delight.  It was on the door knobs, on the  
> floor; the twins were running up and down the hall.  We couldn't  
> catch them as they squirt through our fingers and we were slipping  
> and sliding on the floor.  I was always grateful Ellen never said I  
> told you so.
>
> Our life together would not have been so colorful if it hadn't been  
> for the Wiegel twins.  I adore them to this day.   Joan Knutson
>
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