The Best Day Trips from Sydney, Australia – Two City Get-Aways
While visiting Claire’s mission in Australia, we took two day trips from Sydney. Of course, there is so much to see in Australia. It is vast and wide, and holds…
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Visiting Sydney, Australia – Made Beloved Through an LDS Mission
I want to take you on a little visit to Sydney, Australia. The land where Claire lived and served an LDS mission for eighteen months. It is the land where…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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How to Make a Jesus-Themed Christmas Tree out of Paper
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
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
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)
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….
