lucy

I try to follow Lucy’s example a lot in life. But lately, especially with a new year and new beginnings, I’m trying to follow her example of taking action. Man, she’s good at it! I had to sneak a little picture of her notes at church because they pretty much…

A few months ago Lucy determined that “bread” is not part of the dessert or candy category (things she decided to give up for 2020), and fell in love with pumpkin bread. It is interesting (and tough) to try to teach Lucy where things are in the kitchen. I feel…

Clear back on the first day of October Lucy had a birthday. Birthday number fourteen, to be exact. And while I still cannot believe my baby is that old and I miss that croc-wearing, spit-fire she used to be with all my heart, I am loving even more who she…

The school nurse from the junior high asked me to bring Lucy in one morning before school started for her vision check. It was strange to be in that echoy school, all the front office so sweet and happy to see Lucy again. I figured they had called us in…

I cannot let this day pass me by without writing about the things I love most about this girl right here: Because my BABY is FOURTEEN! We had her annual IEP the other day. Dave and I sat in a classroom before school started in a socially distanced circle with…

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…

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…

It is pretty amazing what the human body can do, I tell you! The other night Dave and I lay in bed we were marveling that you can take a girl, open her back, heave bones and ribs and muscles and nerves into the right spot, put rods and screws…

On Thursday morning, as the sun was barely starting to crawl its way into the sky, Lucy and I checked into the hospital for her scoliosis spinal fusion surgery. And ever since then, I feel like we’ve been in a time warp, tucked away from the world with no one…

Tomorrow at 5:30 in the morning Lucy and I will be reporting to the hospital, complete with all kinds of Covid-19 safety protocol, for her long-awaited scoliosis surgery. Unless, of course, something changes. Which, right now, you never know. This surgery has been scheduled for quite some time, but we…