How to Know a Person
Isn’t it interesting how sometimes everything you read or listen to happens to align? Right now everything I come across seems to be giving me brilliantly beautiful lessons about how…
Some Exciting things to Start off the Weekend
Ok guess what?? SEASON FIVE of our podcast aired this last Tuesday!! A New Podcast Season WooHoo! Come join us as we talk about how this new school year began…
Missionary Monday (on a Wednesday)
Oh we sure loved up our kids on Labor Day weekend. But there was for sure a big gap. There always is. That huge personality of Claire’s is tangibly missing….
Labor Day Weekend Visitors
Our kids came to town on Labor Day Weekend. Yep, at the tail end of that still-so-hot time of year when we were still in the midst of the hundred-degree-temps-for-a-hundred-days…
Let’s Take a Moment to Enjoy Miss Murphy…
I have a lot to catch up on over here, but for now let’s take a moment to enjoy Miss Murphy Jane. Because man alive I love her. I’m not…
A Milwaukee Wedding and a Piano Performance
Our nephew got married in Milwaukee. It happened to be the same weekend when Lucy was playing the piano at church. So let’s talk about the piano first because this…
Awe in a Grove of Redwood Trees
I have so much I want to say about two things: 1) A book called The Anxious Generation that we read for book club (SO good and really, a book…
Power in a Family Work Project
The stucco on our house was in desperate need of repair and a paint job. In order to get to those jobs we had to remove all the vines on…
Dogs on planes, Hope for college & a Utah Sleepover
Has anyone out there taken a dog on an airplane before? I have NOT. But my brother Josh drove Bo Jangles up to the lake this year, and the best…