Family Time
Some special visitors dropped by this week on Tuesday to see Efrain and had so much fun with the kids. We are incredibly blessed to have such good relationships with…
A Quarantine Palm Sunday Birthday
For all the stay-at-homing and quarantining and not-having-anywhere-to-go-ing, it's been hard somehow to "find the time" to write about Palm Sunday and my birthday last weekend. It's not hard to…
Signed and Sealed
August brought the most eagerly awaited event of the past 3 years. On the 18th of the month, the Church welcomed Natalie Gianna Cecilia, Xavier Ninian Gregory, and Jordan Benedict…
2018 Christmas
Ah, Christmas! No matter how scattered and ill prepared I am due to dealing with one sick child after another after another, we still manage to have a beautiful and…
Sunday Story
A True Story I have often been blessed to be able to bring lots of kids (other than my biological ones) to Church with me. A while back, I brought…
Water is Thicker Than Blood
In my experience, families are messy. There are fights, sacrifices, insults, kindnesses, and estrangements. Family can be a great asset in leading its own to Christ, and it can be…
Mission San Xavier del Bac – March 2016
We saved the best of our site seeing for Vicki's last day in town, and zipped down to Tuscon on Friday morning to visit the beautiful historic site of the…
Back to School
If you spend any time on Instagram or Facebook, doubtless you have been flooded with hundreds of back-to-school posts-n-pics from friends who are proud parents of children pre-school aged and…