Lucy had her first high school choir performance a couple weekends ago. I’m sorry, I know I’m biased, but just LOOK at this darling girl of mine: Part of the “uniform” was clip-on pearl earrings and that particular girl of mine dutifully wore those puppies without a single complaint. (Which…
Remember when it was the first ever Global Awareness day for BBS? (Yeah, if you don’t, I wrote about it back HERE.) Well, we have our own little local BBS awareness here in the desert each year when we hold the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving. One hundred percent of the…
I don’t have the answer to that question up there for anyone else, but I sure felt it for myself today as I listened to General Conference. I wrote some thoughts about hearing God’s voice in so many ways a couple days ago. But wanted to come back here following…
I was just barely fifteen for crying out loud! Not sure how this happened! This beautiful little baby of ours with the big blue eyes: Grew. …and grew, and now she’s this girl who’s almost looking me right in the eye she’s getting so tall! I love this girl with…
You know that feeling when something just SPEAKS to you? Those things that grasp every part of you and you just feel the truth and light in it? I feel it when I look at beautiful art. I feel it when I see an incredible sunset. I feel it in…
Parenting adult kids is such an interesting journey. Because it’s like parenting takes on a whole new brand when you shift to adult parenting. You’re still the parent, of course, and you still want to support and love, but it’s a hands-off kind of a deal. And why is that…
Sometimes I feel like the Rapunzel’s “fake” mother Gothel at the end of Tangled when Flynn Rider (Eugene) cuts off Rapunzel’s magical hair and that old wicked woman realizes her youth is going to fly out the window. She grasps onto it with every ounce of her soul. Oh! She…
When Lucy’s choir teacher asked me a few weeks ago to tell him more about what’s going on with Lucy, I realized we needed a little teacher meeting. Knowledge is power, and I realized none of her teachers really knew what was going on with this girl. So her “helper”…
My brother is one of my favorite people. Well, I have five brothers, and they’re all my favorites for all kinds of different reasons, but the one I want to talk about today is Tal. And Tal married a Swiss girl named Anita. And the two of them, along with…