school

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!).…

All five of my babies have spent two years of the roller coaster of their adolescence roaming the halls of this junior high: Oh it hasn’t always looked like that. This is the back entrance where Lucy and I ride our bike, and it happens to be in the middle…

At the end of the summer Dave surprised me with news that he thought he might go back to school to get a Masters degree in Global Management. It is a program through Thunderbird that he had done some research on and was getting kind of excited about. I’m sure…

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…

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…

Goodness, gracious I have a lot to catch up on. We’ve been working on some good things around here, and I have so much to say. But for today I figured I better get my act together and at least document the first day of school… …online school that started…