Oh we sure loved up our kids on Labor Day weekend. But there was for sure a big gap. There always is. That huge personality of Claire’s is tangibly missing. When we were boating over that weekend there was this moment (I’m trying to get better at being still enough to recognize moments), where I…
Welp, let’s do a first “Missionary Monday” blog post for Claire. That girl has been in the MTC for SO long. And she still has SO long to go! But I figure we can use a little Claire update over here. Ok, so where did we leave off on this mission journey? Oh yes, right…
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…
Our whole family was together this last weekend. Does it look like we were happy about that? It was like a little miracle and it felt like everything was just right in the world. Which is weird because life was swirling around like nobody’s business. The business that brought the gathering was my niece’s wedding. …
I am sitting here in my kitchen, half-way-undecorated from Christmas. And I am by myself. I don’t know if I’ve truly been by myself for longer than to take a shower for the almost three weeks since the wedding, and even the week before as we were preparing and a whole slew of family congregated…
Six of the nine kids in my family will be here in the desert for Thanksgiving. We will miss the three who live overseas and can’t make it, but we’re so excited to get this many. We can hardly wait. We have been working our tails off crossing Turkey Trot stuff off the list before…