While in Utah for Fall break we made our way around I tell you! Thankfully for everyone else’s sake I just wasn’t left to just stare at fall leaves…although there was still lots of that. There are so many people and places I love in Utah! First, a word about mixing sorrow and gratitude Before…
Our first “MFMP” trip is in the books. A Mother/daughter art “treasure hunt” in Italy. What is that, you may ask? Well, I have talked about our “MFME” mother/daughter gatherings in the past. MFME stands for “Mothers and Future Mothers of Eyrealm.” My mother wrangles us all, sisters and sisters-in-laws, and we do something together….
Welp, I talked about the reunion, the baptism, the MFME, and also the Grandma-reminiscing, but I didn’t wrap up the tail-end of Utah yet. And we crammed in some good things in that tail-end. Lu and I got to drive with my brother Jo and a few of his kids through Logan Canyon back down…
Each year my mom does her best to gather all her girls under her wings any way she can. And each year it makes me realize even more that there’s something pretty special about sisters. And there’s something ESPECIALLY special about a mom who works hard to get them together.
I cannot believe it’s December 1st. I have so much to say about Thanksgiving and all that surrounded it, but until I get those pictures organized let’s talk about gift-giving for a minute. We got a “gift ideas” post from my girls HERE, and some of my own favorite things HERE, but let’s talk about…
That is what we were asking ourselves when we were given advice to have one of those puppies. I mean, we were launching our long-worked-for “In the Arena” podcast, and there should be some sort of commemoration that this was actually happening. So we did some research and got some more advice and voila, we…
I don’t generally write birthday posts for those outside my kids and Dave, because there are a LOT of them and this whole blog would be spilling out with birthdays. But today my mother turns seventy-five years old and she LOVES attention on her birthday (HA! I kid because she deflects attention like nobody’s business),…
…and your sisters love you too:) And you all love hiking. And service. And talking. Oh, and eating, of course. When my sisters asked how they could help celebrate my birthday of course the answer was sisters hiking. Because that’s what we do as we discuss the whole wide world. And there were some good…
A short sum-up: life was crazy, then I wrapped everything up and headed to South Carolina, so anxious to meet up with all those velvety sisters and mother I adore. There is nothing like an “MFME” trip with your mom and sisters to buoy you up in every way you can imagine. I loved feeling…