Branden and I have this tradition for the boys. It started the first Christmas we had them both. Silas had just turned two, and Ethan was only 9 months old. We were young (and tired!) and didn’t really have money to get the boys presents, so we made them something. Branden built them these small hand puppets and I crocheted them little toys – a robot for Silas (who he named Zombie!)…
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50 / 52 – The Double Gap
The Double Gap. An occasion worth documenting! A reminder to me that time itself will both bring and take many things in this life. And yet, time itself is what I should treasure. I feel like Ethan has grown at least a couple inches since we arrived in Ireland! He lost the first front tooth just a couple days after we moved. He’d been wiggling them for months. The second one came…
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49 / 52 – The First Sunday
On April 26, 2014, our family was standing at the starting line of something we could not ask or imagine. A year prior to that, the Lord had told me we would go to Ireland. He told me, but said He wouldn’t tell Branden for a season, to teach me to be quiet (ouch!) Of course, in my excited stubbornness, I was adamant that I knew the plan (and how and when it…
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48 / 52 – New Seasons
Magical things are happening at our house 🙂 I love Christmas time! I’m not great at decorating (actually I’m finding just how little I know about it with this new house and all it’s blank spaces!) but I do love the Christmas tree! A few years ago, maybe four now, I decided to make all of our tree decorations. About halfway into this endeavor I realized I was way in…
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47 / 52 – It’s good to be alive!
So Thanksgiving was a little different this year 🙂 This was our first major holiday away from family and we were in a country that doesn’t really celebrate it! We are getting ready to kick off some big things for children’s ministry here at Calvary Cork, so we had a Thanksgiving/Servant Appreciation/share what’s up ahead dinner! We are honestly so so thankful for those serving in the children’s ministry here. The need…
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46 / 52 – The New Normal
Hey Everyone, so the blog is being kind of weird and not letting me upload any pictures :/ I’m getting it figured out (hopefully), but for now, I’ll try to post them on Facebook with the update links. So this last week was really good. After more than a month of moving and transitioning and a lot of big things to get settled (not that we’re completely settled yet 🙂…