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How Claire’s Girlfriends Reunited with Powerful Mission Stories
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How Claire’s Girlfriends Reunited with Powerful Mission Stories

ByShawni March 31, 2025March 31, 2025

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…

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Kids Come Back! – What We Did When Claire Got Home
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Kids Come Back! – What We Did When Claire Got Home

ByShawni March 7, 2025March 7, 2025

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…

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A Grand Reunion with With Our Australian Girl — Claire’s Return
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A Grand Reunion with With Our Australian Girl — Claire’s Return

ByShawni March 5, 2025March 5, 2025

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…

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Claire Comes Home from Her Mission TODAY (!!) – Her Last Email
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Claire Comes Home from Her Mission TODAY (!!) – Her Last Email

ByShawni February 26, 2025March 5, 2025

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….

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Claire is TWENTY-ONE Today…and She COMES HOME NEXT MONTH!
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Claire is TWENTY-ONE Today…and She COMES HOME NEXT MONTH!

ByShawni January 21, 2025January 21, 2025

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…

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A Missionary I’m MISSING! And Another Mission transfer
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A Missionary I’m MISSING! And Another Mission transfer

ByShawni November 20, 2024November 22, 2024

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…

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Missionary Monday (on a Wednesday)
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Missionary Monday (on a Wednesday)

ByShawni September 18, 2024September 20, 2024

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….

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some January Birthdays
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some January Birthdays

ByShawni February 5, 2024January 20, 2025

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…

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The Beginning of Claire’s missionary adventure in Australia
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The Beginning of Claire’s missionary adventure in Australia

ByShawni January 21, 2024January 21, 2024

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…

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