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Mother’s Day and the Plan
This Mother’s Day feels different somehow. Maybe it’s because I am a grandmother now. Maybe it’s because circumstances are different from many other Mother’s Days. Maybe it is my outlook. In the past, I have thought of Mother’s Day as a day off, or as a day to be honored, which it can be those…
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Returning Home – Part V
I’m in a guest house (airbnb) in Ulaanbaatar not far from where I lived 25 years ago when I lived here as a missionary. I came here with Michael Jones who is my brother-in-law (my wife’s sister’s husband). I felt like I should see if someone should come with me this time, and Michael said…
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Returning Home – Part IV
I am struggling today. I’ll be traveling to Mongolia in less then a month. I’ll stay for around 10 days. I go there to hopefully get some answers about how we can stay there. I don’t know why, but I felt like I should bring someone along. Maybe it was because I’m wanted to go…
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Elora
On March 30th, Mia and Matthew welcomed little Elora. We are so grateful both Mia and Elora are healthy and happy. Elora will hopefully be coming home from the hospital this week once she is able to eat on her own. Well, not on her own. She’s not cooking for herself yet. There is something…
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A couple more answers to prayers
There are a quite a few things that we are trying to figure out in regards to our move to Mongolia, but there are two somewhat significant things that have happened recently that have been an answer to our prayers. Lucy is just finishing up her junior year of high school and so she is…
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Moving forward
Just jumping on here to share a few of my feelings at present. We are still moving forward with what we know–that we need to go to Mongolia. We are not sure on the how. We have purchased tickets in August. We all have passports. We are trying to downsize. There are many of what…
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Returning Home – Part III
We reserved a Vrbo apartment for the month we arrive in Mongolia. It’s nice to have a place to land when we get there. It’s strange to write all of this out in the open, but here goes. I love my Heavenly Father. He plays an active role in my life. He is interested in…
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Hyrum AKA Hy-Hy
This boy has so much personality and he shows a lot of it with his facial expressions. One that you might see first is probably a furrowed brow as this is the face he gives people he doesn’t know well. My favorite is his smile. When he smiles, his face lights up just like the…
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Jackie AKA Jack
It is difficult to describe the overall personality of someone that is just beginning to show the world who he is. This boy is so full of energy, curiosity, and has a ready smile. He is really loving to chat these days and will say things like, “Hyrum, night night?” or “Tai Tai go bye-bye…
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Getting a Handle On It
There has been a lot of my mind lately, but this one topic has been running through my head the past 24 hours. Toilet handles. I’m not sure why, but all of the three toilets in our house flush successfully about five out of six times. It seems like if you flush anything other than…