This weekend we celebrated the nineteen year anniversary of her departure from this world and her beckoning into the next.  And what a way to remember and rejoice in her life, but with the newness of her eleventh grandchild and her widowed husband bustling about, helping care for seven of them, just the […]

Dirty finger nails… His hair in a thick ponytail falling down his back with little wisps protruding in every which direction… various colors of speckled paint on his skin… a sweet smile that was a bit higher on one side of his face than the other but disarmed you faster than you could expect… a […]

Fourteen years ago, today, when I was struggling to figure out who on earth I was, I lost from earth the woman who was helping make me who I am. And since I’m so busy raising (and growing within me) her grandchildren, I haven’t had time to really write anything to or about her, so […]

Thirteen years ago today, my mother entered into glory…. After two years of battling brain cancer, she finally went to meet our Savior… I was thirteen when she got sick and was unable to function as my “Mommy” any more. She didn’t know it when I was young, but she was only going to have […]