This is my baby.  Granted, he’s 29 years old now, 6′1″ and all grown up.  He still has the strawberry blonde hair, but now, this little…uh, I mean big…fellow has a beard to go with it.  He was six months old the Sunday morning he was dedicated in...

It was an immensely long and tiring trip…all the way from Ethiopia.  The weather didn’t cooperate.  In fact, they left Iowa in the midst of the worst snow storm of the past one hundred years…a blizzard.  The airlines lost their luggage.  So many...

The real fun began on the 16th of December when my younger son and his wife arrived…and it was nice to have “fresh troops”.  Jim flew in on the following day and the last two days of waiting felt almost like a party.  Uncle Justin hung up balloons...

Waiting isn’t easy.  Sometimes, waiting is downright hard.  Especially when what you’re waiting for is wonderful.  Especially when what you’re waiting for will, undoubtedly, change your life.  Such was the case for the ten days my three Iowa...

Taken several years ago during a Mom's visit to the college dorm! As our children are growing up, they follow in our footsteps.  This is, however, my first time to follow in one of my children’s footsteps…so to speak.  For ten days, I am...