6/7/2021 We have a graduate! Our oldest daughter is done with high school!  We've homeschooled all the way through, so this feels as m...

  5/7/2021  We recently had family pictures taken. It had been almost 2 years since our last pictures. That doesn't seem like a long tim...

 5/6/2021 My oldest daughter. A senior. Class of 2021. A beautiful young lady ready to fly! These pictures evoke so many memories! We've...

 3/11/2021 I ventured out this week with all 5 children on a day trip to Grand Rapids, Michigan. For us, this is about a 2 hour drive from h...

 11/25/2020 After surgery, I spent 6 weeks recovering and preparing for the next phase of cancer treatment. For most of this time, I was tak...

  11/10/2020 On September 18th I was in surgery for 8-9 hours, as they removed my thyroid gland and 26 lymph nodes. They made a long incisio...

 11/9/2020 "It's thyroid cancer." I heard those words from my ENT in early August. He recommended surgery to remove my thyroid...

 11/8/2020 Just days after my 43rd birthday in August, I heard the doctor's words, "You have cancer." Since then, my life has ...

 10/25/2020 I've found a few more funny memes that encapsulate this crazy year of 2020.  This is a year when each of us could use a good...