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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…

You know when you think something will NEVER happen, and then you find yourself right smack-dab in the middle of it happening? Well, that happened for me over President’s Day weekend. Because when at first I heard about this opportunity Lucy’s MCO choir would have to go to California and…

Ok so I’ve been thinking about the question posed in the last post: What changes someone so much from thinking that there is no way they can do something to being able to do it? With flying colors? I mentioned Lucy and I had a good talk en route to…

Last spring we were looking for something special for Lucy to get involved in. She had piano which she loved, (and an amazing teacher who was willing to write out the music large-scale so she could excel), but she longed to be more involved in things bigger than her little…

First of all, thank you for all the love yesterday. I am still working on replying to all that comfort and buoying goodness in the comments, I am so grateful for this beautiful community in this corner of the internet. There is something so comforting about being “linked” to other…

Lucy’s vision is declining rapidly. Sometimes I roll with this realization as it inches more fully into view. I find things to be grateful for and I cherish what vision she still has. I feel like I need to be strong for her and everyone else. But I have been…