Shawni

Welp, so far this little “home Missionary Training Center” isn’t so bad! There were lots of good questions about how this all works in my last post (back HERE), so I figured I better do a post about it now that we’re a week in. Grace was originally supposed to…

It’s strange how life morphs gradually into new phases. And after you’re there, sometimes it’s hard to even remember how it was before. Before that toddler could walk. Before the elementary school kids headed out the door and there are no more toddlers hanging on your legs. Before those children…

I love new beginnings. And man alive, we sure have had a bunch of them around these parts lately! There have sure been a lot of first days of school this year! There was the first day of online school for the “little girls” (HERE), and the first day of…

My friend is the best baker in the whole wide world. And when she first brought these cookies over to us we were wigging out they were so good. It makes my mouth water to think of these babies. So I figured I better share the recipe here because, 1)…

Thanks for all the good missionary questions on the last post about our new missionary Grace. I answered them back in that comment section, but I think we’ll need to do another Q&A once she gets in the swing of all that jazz. I think we’ll be on a steep…

Well, we are finally here. Tonight is the night my girl gets set apart as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. That means she gets a special blessing to officially begin her work as a missionary. She will begin to wear her name tag as…

Last night Claire sat perched on the kitchen counter as I whipped up some Friday night pizza, and asked me to tell her about my experience on September 11th when it actually happened all those years ago. It was sobering to sit and discuss all the emotion and deep sadness…

So, Claire’s room got a little “spruce-up” along with Lucy’s. Claire is it’s third occupant…went from Elle’s room where we tried to copy a wall we loved in India and somehow got this: Which I wrote about over on the house blog over HERE, and which we loved for a…

Lucy sometimes takes some cajoling when it comes to switching things up. We have to sweet-talk her like nobody’s business into anything that is different. For example, we will suggest a new movie to watch and she will go into it kicking and screaming, but then it ends up being…

I’m excited about this opportunity and wanted to share. Last summer we were able to see first hand how much we take it for granted that we can turn on a tap and get clean drinking water. We were in a little town in Uganda where you had to walk…