Rehearsal Dinner Advice
Last night at the rehearsal dinner we were asked to give you advice or helpful words to get started on your married life. You won’t remember much of what we said but my best advice is to become the person you want to be married to. The rest are just some of my hurried thoughts:…
It is Wedding week!
Dear Jim, It is Easter. ( And it would have been your dad’s 90th birthday!). It is funny that this most important holiday is a bit overshadowed by Emily’s wedding, which is only a week away! The walk to the cross felt like a brief intermission to the “big event” of Emily and Connor’s Wedding.…
“A trick up my sleeve”
Even though I may be losing my influence over my kids (like I ever really had it in the last 10 years anyway) as they fly the coop and leave me in the nest, empty, I do have an “ace” up my sleeve! Their heavenly Father still has their hearts and their lives in his…
6 months!
I only have 6 months left with Emily! I am so excited for her and yet I am so sad that it has gone so fast. There is still so much I want to do as a family. We have not checked everything off the family bucket list. Well, I am still hopeful that we…
Miriam on 34th St
It is my 34th Anniversary so I decided to have a little picnic in honor of the day. Jim proposed at 34th street in Newport Beach on Christmas day in 1979. I was trying to think of some clever way to remember and honor the day. There were several interesting ideas*… but in the end…
A letter to my son-in-love
Dear Connor, You have a name. For years I have prayed for you but not by name, trusting that God knew who you were and was watching over you and growing you into the kind of person who would be best suited to love my sweet, yet mildly crazy daughter, Emily. Things I have prayed…
Thoughts on Emily’s Engagement
Dear Emily, I’ve sort of ignored this reality for the past 22 years; that you would one day find your life partner, who I have prayed for since he was 2 years old, and so I feel thoroughly and utterly unprepared. Just moments ago, you called me with the news, the news of a lifetime.…
Corny Joke Day!
Today is Jim’s Birthday! I made an apple pie and we are going to go miniature golfing to celebrate His life. He stopped growing older just before his 55th birthday but this is the 58th anniversary of the day he was born. I have always found a reason to celebrate life and together we made…
33 years!
I know some might consider it silly to keep celebrating my anniversary even though Jim is in heaven but on this date I changed my name, committed my life to another and began a new family. That family still exists and I am dedicated to its survival. I just cannot ignore a day that forever…