Jul 2, 2023 | Family, Reflection
Ruby girl, we are just so surprised that you’re gone. You didn’t give us any warning, and that high-voltage personality of yours has left a huge vacuum in our home and in our hearts. We’ve been nursing Cross through some old-age symptoms lately but you hadn’t shown...
Apr 26, 2023 | Family, Reflection
**In light of Mother’s day (and Father’s day) around the corner, I’m reposting this from a few years ago. It’s a a lesson I need to keep learning, still need to be reminded of. If I could give one gift to myself and to friends in the trenches...
Apr 12, 2023 | Family, Reflection
“This Christmas, I’m thankful for Dad’s job with American. And that even though now it’s gone, that was a great run.” My brothers and I shared this sentiment as we gathered in my parents’ living room, Christmas 2000. After a...
Mar 23, 2023 | Family, Reflection
We almost lost Papa in the spring of ’99. Papa and Mama (who were actually not yet Papa and Mama, aka Charles and Jamie) took our family of newly grown, newly married kids to the Greek Islands. Immediately after we arrived in Athens and boarded our cruise ship,...
Aug 12, 2021 | Family, Reflection
Today Corbin and I are celebrating 25 years of marriage. WOW and Praise Jesus. It just so happened that the five days we could wrangle family time this summer coincided with our silver wedding anniversary – Corbin literally booked this trip last spring without...
Jun 5, 2021 | Adventures, Family, Gratitude
A whole week in Costa Rica with Corbin and the girls. Took us a few days to truly relax and get our bearings. Loved getting to eat nearly every meal together Driver pulled off the road to show us howler monkeys so many meals together ~ just wonderful A day in Las...
