The summer semester ended for Grace and for Claire. Grace’s ended earlier than Claire’s, and she’s been working double shifts up there, sometimes with fun visitors: (Mini cousins Moses and Gabe.) Also reunions with dear mission friends and fun adventures with new friends: Claire’s semester ended with a bang, trying …
There is so much advice about raising kids, and gradually more and more about raising teens, but when it comes to young adults, poof! There’s nothing. And I know that’s because they are adults, of course. You don’t “parent” adults. But as I grow into this business I’m realizing there’s…
I got to walk around the high school running into Jonah, Aja and Elsie between classes the other night at “meet-the-teacher” night… …and I thought to myself once again, it is pretty grand to have an extra brother and his family around here. Especially one who fixes all kinds of…
It is late on a Sunday and I’m trying to clear off my desk, filled up with little papers and notes. And I came across some words I scribbled down at church the last two Sundays. Words that hit me that I found scraps of paper to write them down,…
I remember it so well: the weight of overwhelm when we found out I was already eight weeks pregnant with baby number two when Max was six months old. Tears in my eyes watching that original baby sleep in his carseat in my backseat riding away from that doctor appointment…
Welp, I thought I had the home-made bread dealio down with this recipe I love back HERE. It is easy and foolproof and we love it. But then I tasted Barbi’s bread. Yow. You guys, it is dreamy good. Barbi is a lady in our church congregation for those who…
This last weekend had been a long time in the making. We finally made it up to “the Ranch” for a Relief Society retreat. (The “Relief Society” consists of the women in our church congregation.) Can you even believe how lucky that is? You see, one woman in our RS’s…
After a LOT of anticipation, and “plan A” and “plan B” falling by the wayside, my parents took Lucy’s “group” of grandkids on their much-looked-forward-to “motor home trip” this summer. You see, when each “group” of grandkids reaches a particular age, they get to do certain things. At some ages…
I’m sure I’ve talked before here about the “Transformer Principle.” It’s a principle my dad came up with as one of the “Grandfather’s Secrets” he shares each summer with the grandkids, and it’s attached to the one about sex. (More about that in another post if anyone is interested), but…