So many of Claire’s good/best friends are leaving for missions right now. She’s so sad to be missing all their farewells, dang it! But although we don’t have a missionary out right at the moment, I’ve been thinking about missions so much lately. And the best brand of resilience they have the power to create….
There are a lot of things you don’t know you’ll get with motherhood. I mean, you have a basic idea of the sleepless nights, the beauty of cooing babies, the joy of the first steps taken and the first understandable “mama” from the lips of your own child. But no one prepares you for letting…
Grace is home. And it’s the best thing in the world. I have more to say about that than I can even grapple with right now, will get to it all soon, but for now this: This last letter of hers was supposed to post this morning and never did, so better late than never….
Someone wise once said, “Making the decision to have a child — it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” (Elizabeth Stone) And OH! how I feel that! My heart is multiplied walking all over creation it seems these days! It’s so interesting to think…
On September 15th, Grace hit her one year mark of being a missionary. ONE WHOLE YEAR!! In fact, almost 13 months now! (But who’s counting?…ha!) In some ways it feels like she’s been gone forever and ever, and in some ways (thanks to FaceTime each week) it feels like we’ve been on this journey right…
It’s so funny to think about how much anticipation we built up to talk to Max while he was out there on his mission. We based so much around those two calls we got per YEAR: the internet connections, the timing, how to set up the screen so everyone could see that boy of ours,…
…That’s where my missionary is. Sending out lots of prayers for people in Texas! Here are some pictures from her letter last week before things got so much worse…back when they were just in awe of all that ice covering everything: Loved seeing her all cozy in her apartment. But now things have become so…
Welp, Grace has gone from her home MTC (missionary training center) days here at home to Austin, Texas, where she is on a steep learning curve but happy as can be. It is so strange to have her gone but it’s so good to know she is tucked safely into her next mission step. She…
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…