Journey Updates
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T’is the season …. <3
It seems too soon for school to be starting, but here we are. And while I feel like summer lasted about ten days and I would love to hold on tightly to it for two more weeks, I have little to say in the matter. All that being said, the return to a bit more…
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And the final amen on the week came out of the blue all the way in Texas <3
I didn’t post on Monday because we were traveling. The day started very early…4:30 AM wakeup with a ride to the airport at 5. We flew to St. Louis, picked up a car and made our way home where we took care of the neglected yard and house. Our trip over the weekend was to…
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Wrapping up our week of remembering <3
As we wrap up this week of commemorating God’s faithfulness, a final reminder was dropped, quite literally, in my lap yesterday. Storms with possibly heavy rains were forecasted across our area yesterday. We had plans to go watch Emmett play his first game of the season if the fields weren’t too wet. How naive we…
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Commemoration Week … Thursday <3
This week, as I have been intentional to focus on God’s faithfulness, a couple of things have happened. One is that so many nice little surprises have come my way. Oh, it’s been a week in some ways. Too many things on the schedule back to back which I don’t handle well. Too many emotions…
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Commemoration Week …. Wednesday <3
While I have spent the past two days re-presenting what this idea of a Commemoration Week is by using some old and new words, I know I need to take a fresh look at the whole thing before the week is over! Last night I read through the original passages that sparked the idea in…
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Commemoration Week 2026 – Tuesday <3
As I read through the original post from 2014 that I shared yesterday (scroll back if you are just joining us at the bottom of the post and read Monday’s first!) I had revisit the harder parts of parenting that it drags up. There have been losses and changes since I shared the Commemoration Week…

