How Claire’s Girlfriends Reunited with Powerful Mission Stories
While we were in Utah for Spring Break, Claire got to reunite with her girlfriends. The majority of them have served LDS missions all over the world over the last…
Kids Come Back! – What We Did When Claire Got Home
For all those moms waiting for their missionaries to return, or waiting anxiously for any long separation to come to an end, I’m here to buoy you up. Because kids…
A Grand Reunion with With Our Australian Girl — Claire’s Return
CLAIRE IS HOME! And we have all been in such a beautiful little cocoon of family for the last week. I look over at Claire one hundred times a day…
Claire Comes Home from Her Mission TODAY (!!) – Her Last Email
Claire is making the grand return from her mission morning. In a matter of a few hours to be exact. And there aren’t enough emojis and exclamation marks for that….
Claire is TWENTY-ONE Today…and She COMES HOME NEXT MONTH!
Today, on her birthday in the United States of America, my daughter has already stepped into her twenty-second year of life over in Australia (since she is eighteen hours ahead…
A Missionary I’m MISSING! And Another Mission transfer
We are smack-dab in the middle of gratitude month and I want to say how THANKFUL I am for my missionary and all she’s learning over there on the other…
Missionary Monday (on a Wednesday)
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….
some January Birthdays
January is chock-full of birthday in our neck of the woods. Josh’s birthday First up is my brother Josh. We were in California for that quick three-day weekend but got…
The Beginning of Claire’s missionary adventure in Australia
I wrote about Claire’s birthday in Australian birthday time (yesterday since she’s 18 hours ahead of us). But it’s her birthday today in America. So let’s celebrate this girl a…