In a large family with an equally large sibling age gap, it’s so strange to me that my youngest sibling is actually graduating. It’s an end of an era of continuous schooling all the way from my oldest sister in Kindergarten to now my youngest brother finishing high school. Payton came along a few years after Jordan. […]

At 8 weeks of pregnancy, Kevin & I decided to tell our families. Even though it had been only 2 weeks since we had found out, it seemed like it had been forever and that, coupled with how extremely sick I was, made it hard to keep a secret. After telling our parents, I FaceTimed my oldest sister, […]

erry Christmas! We’re spending the day with my family today (everyone’s arrived from out of state and we’re all in town!) and it’s sure to be it’s usual day of chaos, laughter, food, and, my favorite: time together. I hope you all have a wonderful day celebrating Jesus’ birth and the life He came to […]

ontinuing with my thankfulness journal. It’s day two. And while this topic brings with it the normal riffraff of human relationships, when I think of these people, I truly love them. So much. My siblings. There are 8 of us; 2 deceased. We are a weird gang. I mean, truly, we’re kind of crazy. And […]

y little brother moved into his first apartment. My mom was so worried that he will starve to death because she won’t be cooking for him every day. To remedy this, she donated a bunch of dishes, pots, pans, and cooking utensils to him. I hadn’t had a chance to visit him until recently and […]

y sister, Carla, had her 20 year class reunion this past weekend. The majority of what I remember about her high school years (I am 11 years younger than her) is one most embarrassing story: Carla’s girl friends were over at our house one day around Christmas. They were in the living room sprawled on the […]