Day 3773: Graduate and Tacos.

 

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Graduate Joyce DeFauw

Great-grandma and graduate Joyce DeFauw, who just earned a bachelor's degree from Northern Illinois University more than 70 years after she first enrolled! DeFauw was months away from earning a degree in home economics when she fell in love with a man from her church. She decided to pause her studies to start a family with him. After her first husband passed away, she remarried and grew her family — today, she's got dozens of grandkids and great-grandkids. In 2019, she mentioned to them that she came close to completing her degree, and her ever-supportive family encouraged her to follow through. And so she did! This time, though, she opted to study from her retirement home. She took one online class per semester — her first time using a computer! — which kept her busy during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, when the virus kept her family from visiting. And now, three years after she picked her studies back up, she received her degree in general studies. Why'd she go through all the studying and cramming of college again? Well, why not? “It’s nice to finish something you started,” DeFauw says — whether it's a lengthy book, an art project or even a long-paused college education. 

Taco shop flooded with orders after daughter’s Christmas wish to get her mother customers goes viral

"What a Christmas miracle!" write Taco-Bout-Joy's on Facebook.

“It breaks my heart to see my mom watching the door every day, waiting for a customer to walk in,” wrote Isabel Milan. Santa came a few weeks early for a daughter who shared her Christmas wish for her mother on social media.

On Dec. 8, TikTok account @tacoboutjoys shared a short video shot inside of their restaurant Taco-Bout-Joy's located in Glenview, Illinois, owned by sisters Joy Milan and Kack Keomanivong. Filmed by Joy's daughter Isabel, the video, which shows the empty shop and Milan watching the door for entering customers, struck a chord for so many on the app. First of all, I want to thank everybody for the love and support the past few days, it’s been incredible,” Isabel says in another TikTok update on Dec. 10. “We’re all  super tired, but it’s been very worth it.”

 

A 4-minute video, Joy Story, here.

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