This year, in the midst of all the holiday hoopla, there were two times the world stood still for a bit. At least for me. I was so grateful for the beautiful stillness as we experienced some heart-healing at the Cathedral of the Madeleine…and our church too. As I mentioned a few posts ago, we…
I am up in Utah with my Grace moving her into her new apartment up here. Letting her go. Again. Gosh this motherhood dealio sure is chock full of “letting-gos.” So it’s interesting this video somehow showed up in my feed today: Holy smokes, little did I know back then, those four little girls lighting…
Tomorrow hopefully I’ll get to post about Elle and Carson’s sealing at the temple (loved it so much). But for today let’s talk about Lighting the World (in continuation from the last post and our fav. Christmas tradition…something else I love so much). And how Lucy and her choir sure did just that at their…
Promoting Resilience in teens Claire had an unintentional lesson in resilience a couple weeks ago, and I want to share it because once again, I keep being taught that so many of the things we try to teach can only be learned if we let go. Covid has hit the volleyball world, just like everything…
This week as my heart started racing in anticipation of Christmas coming up so quickly, my brother reminded me of some words in the Christmas carol, “Oh Holy Night.” (Oh how I love him…and all my brothers!) These particular words resonated with me so much that I got all teary: “A thrill of hope the…
I am working hard to catch up on life over here. And on the documenting of it. I’m working on my “March little things” post and realized I haven’t posted about the trip we took for Spring Break right before the world shifted due to COVID. Before any travel bans or masks, oblivious as to…
It is a beautiful thing for a mother to watch her child make big decisions. Especially when you get to observe them claim light and guidance from Above in the process. And recently Grace has made a pretty huge one. Well, I shouldn’t say “recently,” because this has been a long time in coming. She…
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 world here at home. Around…
Last week I shed some tears over this book: Yep, standing there in my bathroom getting ready for the day, listening to the most beautiful words wash over me from a copy I was listening to from the library. After I “bookmarked” probably half of the lines in my very first listen I decided I…