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….
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
Gratitude for bubbles of love – Claire’s Australian arrival
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…