Missionary Monday — my missionary is coming HOME!
Someone wise once said, “Making the decision to have a child — it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”…
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some pieces of my heart joining up in Texas
When Max and Abby realized that they were going to be in the VERY SAME CITY as Grace at Christmastime, they got permission to go see that sister of theirs….
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missionary monday
On September 15th, Grace hit her one year mark of being a missionary. ONE WHOLE YEAR!! In fact, almost 13 months now! (But who’s counting?…ha!) In some ways it feels…
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a birthday, a move, and growing roots
(Missionary Monday on a Thursday :)) My favorite sister missionary had a birthday over the weekend. Just look at that little light-glowing girl over in Austin! I haven’t done an…
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Missionary Monday
It’s so funny to think about how much anticipation we built up to talk to Max while he was out there on his mission. We based so much around those…
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iced over in Texas (Missionary Monday)
…That’s where my missionary is. Sending out lots of prayers for people in Texas! Here are some pictures from her letter last week before things got so much worse…back when…
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Grace’s Departure for a Mission During COVID
Those last weeks before a child leaves on a mission are a strange mix of sacred, ordinary, and emotional. Especially when said child is leaving a mission during COVID. Everything…
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Letting Go of a Child Leaving Home: An End and a Beginning
Isn’t life just filled right up with ends and beginnings? Over and over again? Hopefully we learn from all of them. Letting go of a child leaving home never quite…
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a farewell and a delay
Gosh life is coming at us fast these days! Things keep getting in the way of life slowing down but that’s ok. I loved this quote I heard in a…
