school

In a discussion with some neighbors the other day we somehow got talking about miracles. We talked about how sometimes we have to recognize the miracles. We have to be looking for them or they may slip by unnoticed. And those miracles may come in a different form than we…

On Friday Carson became an official “student doctor” at his White Coat ceremony. WOOHOO!!! We watched with my parents in a car in a parking garage between Claire’s volleyball games at her first college tournament. (More on that to come, I wish I could have divided myself into twenty different…

Since we’re talking stories (last post), let’s delve into a new one today. There was once a girl who was brave and courageous. Because of an extremely rare syndrome, she dealt with dwindling vision loss and some other struggles with learning at school. That girl also had a will of…

Let’s go back to graduation. What’s that you say? Not the right graduate? I know, I know, it’s all about Claire these days, but TODAY is that boy’s birthday. The boy who made me a mother. The boy who made my heart want to burst. And still does. The boy…

There were a whole slew of things right at the end of the school year leading up to graduation that I want to remember all together, so here we go. Our church congregation put together such a nice evening celebration for all the kids graduating: We had dinner and got…

The other day my friend told me how she finally put in the effort to learn how to solve a Rubik’s cube this summer. It was something she had always wanted to do, especially since she was so intrigued that her boys could do it so quickly, but she had…

I still remember the first day of my freshman year of high school. I was incredibly shy. My sister Saren was two years older than me and I clung onto her arm for dear life. I remember her walking me to my first class, which was dance (before I realized…

(Ok, actually now it’s already started! Yikes! But we’re backing up to keep track for a minute…) Welp, just like that, Claire is home from the Netherlands. It may not seem like she’s been gone for long from the casual observer, but we have MISSED this girl of ours! This…

It is happening. This little girl of mine, my baby, is getting ready to start HIGH SCHOOL! I have all kinds of mixed emotions about that business. And all kinds of questions too: How did the time fly so fast? How is she going to do maneuvering that humongous school?…

Does anyone else feel like things are going full-steam ahead right now? Today we are buckling down and getting to work on our “summer goals” and plans, but until then, let’s talk about what happened at the end of the school year (seems like ancient history now to be honest!).…