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

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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How to Make a Jesus-Themed Christmas Tree out of Paper
Faith | Gift Ideas

How to Make a Jesus-Themed Christmas Tree out of Paper

ByShawni December 3, 2024December 3, 2024

In the midst of Thanksgiving hoopla we have sure been missing Claire. I worked my tail off to send off her Christmas package before the holidays ramped up. And it…

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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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A Visitor from Africa
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A Visitor from Africa

ByShawni September 26, 2024September 26, 2024

Remember when we went to visit Dave’s sister Christy and her husband who are serving as mission presidents in Sierra Leone, Africa? And you may remember how they were called…

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Missionary Monday (on a Wednesday)
Real Life

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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The Beginning of Claire’s missionary adventure in Australia
Faith | Real Life

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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Claire and other missionaries newly arrived in Australia
Faith | Real Life

Gratitude for bubbles of love – Claire’s Australian arrival

ByShawni November 22, 2023November 22, 2023

I have so much gratitude for “bubbles of love.” And that we can pray for those bubbles to encapsulate our children when they are struggling. The other day, after a…

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