Ok so I’ve been thinking about the question posed in the last post: What changes someone so much from thinking that there is no way they can do something to being able to do it? With flying colors? I mentioned Lucy and I had a good talk en route to the airport on Sunday about…
Ok, not just women, because there are some pretty cool men in this post too, but let’s focus on the women first because look who I got to be with for the women’s session of General Conference for our church a couple weeks ago: Oh yeah, baby. I lucked out. It was the beginning of…
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…
It is a process: making a HOUSE into a HOME. And I am feeling a little melancholy as I reflect on old pictures because I MISS those spaces filled with so much. But I love the process of creating. Over and over. Because there’s nothing like creating a place to “grow” a family. We have…
I have sent four children off to junior high school, one by one. They planned out their first-day-of-school outfits. They poured over the supply lists. They packed up their backpacks overflowing with Kleenex and Clorox wipes after trips to Target and took off with their little packs of biking friends. Oh, they were nervous, no…
As a preface, this really isn’t “part 1” since I already wrote about Uganda HERE and HERE, but this is the first part of what we were there to do. I just have to say once again that I fell in love with this organization we worked with (called Family Humanitarian). They took such great care…
Whoa! That last day was close to a week ago and life keeps on going, steam rolling over all my best intentions to slow it down, gosh darn it! So here I am to try to hold the memories tight! This high school graduation business has been infiltrated into everything lately but there was another…
We had one perfectly exquisite family day when Dave and I returned home from the Dominican (I’m reading Anne of Green Gables with Lucy and I think I need to adopt some of Anne’s flowery words to describe this day…it was that good:) One day to soak all our people up (I’m including Lar in…