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We were still up in Utah (dropping Claire off for college) intentionally so we could be there to celebrate this girl: I wrote about her on her actual day back HERE, but here’s what we did that day. Of course we had to start with Lucy’s traditional candy bar poster.…

Three of the five of us at home woke up on the WRONG side of the bed on Easter morning. It was grumpy city around here I tell you! Which, I must say, did a number on the two who weren’t already in bad moods. Which, of course, is not…

I know your family has a lot of traditions and routines. What traditions did you start when they were young? Or which do you wish you would have started? Oh the answer to this question could be very long and lengthy. Especially as I am in a time of life…

After that bleary-eyed but spirit-filled Christmas Eve, we woke up to Grace’s Christmas call, her face all aglow with Christmas wonder in the mission field. She told us she had been talking to the other kids who had been up for an hour. Still so weird to sleep past the…

We had two kids home for Christmas. Our two older kids were tucked safely with their in-laws, and Grace is tucked safely as a missionary in Texas. It was strange to have such a small group, but also a little bit awesome. Oh, we missed our other kids with all…

We marched into Easter weekend right on the tail of the wedding, so I was kind of grasping at straws to be prepared (gosh, my “one word” for this year: prepare, sure is a big one, and still so much work to do on that sucker). But you know what?…

It is overwhelming to be a mother at Christmas-time. So much to gather and prepare and so many thoughts to organize in my brain. Every year it makes me appreciate my mother exponentially more. How did she calmly and quietly do so much, never asking for praise or acknowledgement? I…

When Lucy gets into something, she really gets into something. I’m not sure what got her on her Hamilton kick a couple years ago, but it’s been a long-lasting one. I honestly don’t think there’s been a day that’s gone by where she doesn’t have that soundtrack blasting in her…

We had one perfectly exquisite family day when Dave and I returned home from the Dominican (I’m reading Anne of Green Gables with Lucy and I think I need to adopt some of Anne’s flowery words to describe this day…it was that good:)   One day to soak all our people…

It’s weird that nearly a month into January it already feels weird to write that “2018” up there in the title.  It’s like it was a century ago or something!   Christmas was a good one…I think 🙂  I still feel like I was in such a post-wedding-blur that I’m really,…