Birthday Weekend!

July 24,2016

Dear sister Kristina,

I'm writing you tonight from Bountiful. I had a fun weekend, little getaway to celebrate my birthday and Addie's birthday.

I drove down here on Thursday. I was supposed to be coming with Leah, but she's still in the hospital and the counselors felt it was very important for me to still come so that Leah would learn about choices and consequences. I was actually looking forward to our little trip together so I was kind of sad to go alone. She's doing better each day and most likely she'll be coming home in the next day or two.

But once I got here it's been a lot of fun. I had dinner with Kirk and Sarah, then Kirk brought the girls over to my motel so Addie could go swimming. It's been really hot here.

Sarah had a young woman's presidency meeting. After swimming at Nana's, I gave Addie a bath in my motel room and got her ready for bed. I'm sure Addie just thinks Nana has a swimming pool and a cool house. Ha ha

On Friday I babysat the girls while Sarah went to get her fingerprints done for more visa stuff. She also ran some errands. 

I had free time in the afternoon, so I did a little shopping and touring around salt lake. Then that night after dinner we went to downtown Bountiful for the pioneer festival. Addie had a lot of fun riding the rides. She wasn't afraid of any of them. Then we headed up the hill towards the temple and went to a cemetery where we sat on a big blanket and watched the fireworks show. It was a good show and lasted for thirty minutes. The view from the cemetery hill was beautiful even though it was a little weird that we were sitting in a cemetery. There was a light wind and even a little cool, so it was perfect weather after such a hot day.

On Saturday morning I headed to Kirk's to help get things ready for Addie's birthday party. It was a Dory themed party. Kirk and Sarah woke up Addie in the morning by dumping a huge bag full of balloons into her crib. She thought that was pretty cool and took me in her room to show me when I got there.

Sarah made a cute dory cake, grapes that looked like seaweed, a veggie dip that had an octopus in the middle. I helped her with all of it. She's such a fun mom.

Addie's best friend Lucy came to the party with her parents who just happen to be Kirk and Sarah's best friends. Nicole and her roommate came, grandma and grandpa and Charmaine. We had the whole party inside their house because it was way too hot to go outside.

Some of the presents that were big hits were two goldfish that Nicole and her roommate brought. It came in an aquarium that had a remote control that made the light change colors. Very cool. Addie named them Minnie and dory.

I gave her a bunch of little presents and she really loved the two boxes of bandaids. One was Mickey and the other was dory bandaids. It was so funny when during the middle of the party Addie and Lucy disappeared. Nobody really noticed because they had been running in and out of the room all day playing. Sarah went back to her bedroom to nurse Haylee when all of a sudden she heard giggling coming from her closet. When she looked in, she saw Addie and Lucy on the floor covered in bandaids. It was so funny. Who knew our dollar store boxes of bandaids would be such a source of fun.

After about two and a half hours, the party was over, everyone was tired and it was time for naps. Adults and kids.ha ha later that night we met up with Mary and Brian at hokulia's for snow cones. We went to a park with them. Their little boy George is so cute and he definitely is a Lutz. In fact, he looks a lot like David. Mary and Brian are getting ready to move to Texas. Sarah is sad about that. She has loved having Mary nearby. Brian reminded me that your mission president is his sister in law's parents. I totally forgot about that.

Today I went to church with Kirk and Sarah. Addie still absolutely loves nursery and I got to take care of Haylee while Sarah taught young women. I always go to young women with her. She gave a wonderful lesson about taking the name of the Savior upon ourselves. I shared about you being on a mission and how wearing the name tag is such a wonderful reminder of who you represent and asked how different would we act if we always had that name tag on and perhaps we should live our lives as if that name tag was always on because we do have His name on our hearts.

Tonight we had my birthday dinner at grandma and grandpa's. We had fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, rolls, salad. Then Sarah made me my favorite cake, poke cake. Remember that cake...chocolate with pokes of Carmel and heath candy bits with cool whip. Yum yum, it was tasty! Addie helped me blow out the candles.

I opened a few presents and I just loved what you sent! I read every word of your miracles journal. You'll be so happy you wrote those down. I loved the quotes and scriptures with each one too!! And the pendant is so pretty. I can't wait to put it on a chain and wear it. It's totally me. The recipes look scrumptious too. Thank you for being so thoughtful. Even the cereal box you sent it in. Ha ha I loved it all!

I finished the day by playing games with Kirk and Sarah. You know I love games. Just wish dad could have been with me.

So how has your week been? What's been happening with Nathan? How have your sisters been and have you done any training meetings lately?

The news from home this week is that our stake is getting changed. The 9th ward south of floating feather and West of park is being moved into the Star stake. The rest of the 9th ward will be attending the 1st ward, so we won't even have a 9th ward any more. We also got moroni placed on our temple!

Always something changing. That's just the way it goes. So Tracey is getting released as YW president too. Caleb will probably not be happy about this change. :)

I felt very close to you today because of the presents you sent. It was almost as good as getting a phone call from you. I hope you are well, finding people to share your testimony with and enjoying even the little moments of each day. There's lessons to be learned in everything.

Have a beautiful week and keep looking for the miracles.

Love you very much,

Mom xoxo

My birthday cake made by Sarah-poke cake-my favorite!!

Haylee

My birthday dinner

At the park

Visiting with Mary, Brian and George at the park

Addie's cake

Food for Addies party

Dory birthday party for Addie

Seaweed

Balloons in her crib for her birthday

Swimming at Nana's hotel pool

Haylee

Alex and Savannah sent this to me haha:

Nikki went with Jan and Jeff to the ysa ward and then to the linger longer. Later that day Jan saw this picture posted in the ysa Facebook page. Ha ha Nikki may come home from California with a boyfriend after this. We all had a good laugh about this:

Haylee

Addie got goldfish from her Aunt Nicole

In my happy place

Kirk and Sarah gave this bike to Addie for her birthday.

Nikki with Heidi

With grandpa Trumbo

Nikki with her aunts

At the OC fair

Some meals she made with Jan

Summer

July 18, 2016

Dear Sister Kristina,

It’s the middle of July and it looks like it’s going to start feeling that way too. We’re heading for hot temperatures this week, but it sure looks nice where you are. Love California summers!!

Last week Alex texted me and told me to be sure to watch Jimmy Fallon that night. His friends had gotten tickets for the show and he was pretty sure we’d be able to see him and Savannah in the audience.He said it was really fun going to the taping and sure enough, we could see him. There was one point when Jimmy came into the audience and he was standing right in front of Alex on the stairs, but we could see Savannah the whole time. Here’s some pics I took off the TV and yes, he’s the bearded one. His beard just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Not so sure I like it because you can’t tell when he’s happy. haha I don’t know why all 3 of my boys have decided to become bearded ones. I’m sure there’s some psychological reasoning behind it. :)

Nikki is now officially on her big summer adventure. We had to scramble and change some plans last week because at the last minute, United Airlines called us and said Nikki couldn’t fly alone. Most airlines require that you are at least 15 to fly so she misses it by a couple months. We finally decided to send her on JetBlue from SLC to Long Beach, but that meant we had to find a way for her to get to Salt Lake. JetBlue allows 14 year olds to fly alone. So I put out a request for a ride on Facebook and actually got 2 responses and one of them just happened to be Kayla Langford Jensen. They were driving down to Ogden on Friday and Nikki was so happy because she knows Kayla so well. It all worked out, but we had to get her ready much quicker than we thought. Kirk said he could pick her up from Ogden and then stay with them until this morning when she flies out. Then I had to arrange for Toni to pick her up from Long Beach. Jan was planning a trip to Orange tomorrow anyway for a doctor’s appt and was just going to take Nikki with her, so now she will just pick up Nikki from Toni’s. Then Nikki and Jan will head up to Santa Maria on Thursday where she will stay until next Tuesday when Toni will come up Jan’s and take Nikki back to Orange and put her on the plane a week from Wednesday. Then Nikki will get picked up by Kirk in Salt Lake and she will stay with them again until the 31st when we are heading down there. Got that?? That’s how crazy it was to try and figure this all out, but I was determined to let Nikki have this adventure. 

She needs this so much. Since things have been so rough around here with Leah, Nikki has missed out on a lot of attention and has been treated so meanly by Leah. Nikki came home from girls camp with a strong testimony, a determination to do better, to pray more and to even go on a mission. I was so happy to have this last week with her all alone to get ready for her trip and to talk about life. It’s been wonderful.

Now for the reason I had Nikki all alone. Leah has had to go back into the hospital again for choices she has made here in the home. She was using self harm just because she was mad and having suicidal thoughts, etc. which now she says she didn’t mean, but that she was just mad. She really needs some help and dad and I need help helping her. Her counselor is trying to help her see what consequences happen because of her actions, but she is still not seeing that yet. She was supposed to go to Utah with me this week and now she won’t be going, but the counselors want me to still go so she sees what consequence has happened. She is furious about not going and has blamed me because I won’t get her out of there and that if I really loved her, I would get her out. This is truly tough love and it’s super hard for me, but I can see what the counselors are saying and I don’t want to make things worse for her. They have completely changed her meds, which I’m hopeful about because they kept increasing her dosages before and things just seemed to get worse and worse around here. She has been in the hospital for a week now and we have gone to visit and made phone calls, but I can tell she’s not ready to come home yet. They won’t let her come home if they think she’s a harm to herself or to others or is not obeying the rules where she is. She’s softening a little which is good, but it will take time. And if she comes home now, they think she will just fall back into her old ways, which is true.

When she comes home, the counselor here wants to do a complete psychological evaluation on her because he thinks she doesn’t have the right diagnosis. That will be wonderful because that’s what I’ve thought all along and once we know what’s going on with her, then we can help her better. He’s also going to make sure that her IEP at school is what she needs and that it’s done properly. He looked at her records and said the schools have really let her down. In fact, he’s furious about it and wants to go with me to the school the week before it starts and talk with all of them there. I’m so happy he’s going to be with me for that meeting.

I know it seems very sad for Leah, but she really is in the right place right now. She was really going downhill here giving up on everything and becoming extremely rude to everyone. There’s some underlying anger and issues, a lot of which happened when she was given up for adoption at 4 years old, but one thing she always says is that her family means everything to her. My hope is that she’ll be able to feel full joy here on earth, but I also know that the atonement is here for her and for me, so my faith is strong and she couldn’t have ended up in a better family with so many who love and care for her.

So dad and I have virtually been alone in the house and sometimes I’m completely alone when he works his shifts. It’s weird. We made way too much dinner yesterday after church, so now we have leftovers for a week at least. haha But we’ve been having fun also doing whatever we want, eating whatever we want, leaving whenever we want and coming home whenever we want. woohoo I guess it’s good practice for when we are empty nesters. I’m happy that Roxy and Eddy are here with me.

Savannah treated Alex to a Panda lunch for his birthday last week. I guess there’s only one Panda in New York City so he was pretty excited.

He said they were smaller portions there and cost more and tasted a little different, but he was sooo happy as you can see. They are really enjoying exploring New York together.

Over the weekend, Kirk and Sarah and the girls all went for a hike up Donut Falls with Nikki and have had fun doing some other things with her. Here’s a pic Kirk sent me and I can’t believe how big Addie looks. She looks like she’s going into kindergarten. When we facetimed last night, she wanted to take a bath so she ran into the family room and counted to five and then ran back out. I don’t think I knew how to count to five until I was four or something. haha

Haylee is now starting to smile and it’s so cute to see the videos that Sarah sends me. And she even still has all her hair. Kirk had lost his by the time he was a month old, but dad says she could still end up losing it. I sure hope not, because it’s sooo cute and I just love how it stands straight up.

I’m leaving this Thursday to go to Utah for Addie’s 2nd birthday party. I’m going to stay until next Monday. Dad is working a lot this week, since he knew I would be gone. So I’m excited to hold Haylee and play with Addie, oh ya and to see Kirk and Sarah. I even get to babysit the girls on Friday because Sarah has to go get her fingerprints taken for more visa stuff. Her paperwork is neverending. Here’s another pic from their hike:

Yesterday was out last day in our marriage and family class. I’m really going to miss it. I’ve learned so much from the Langfords and the discussions we have all had. The treats were amazing too, not gonna lie. They talked about children who stray yesterday and they’ve had personal experience with that, so it was very tender and with the things with Leah, it was also close to our hearts. Christine Langford has such a wonderful way of expressing thoughts so I told her how much I appreciated everything she said yesterday, that her words came at a perfect time.

I figure today I’m going to be spending a lot of time on the phone with Nikki walking her through her airport experience. I really hope it’s easy for her. I think the Salt Lake airport will be the hardest to navigate, but Long Beach should be a breeze. I told her I’d stay on the phone with her the whole time after she gets through security to make sure she gets to the right gate. I know she’s going to be nervous and she will get to the airport in about ten minutes. So I’m already a little nervous for her. But this will be a couple of weeks that she’ll always remember and Jan and Toni have some fun things planned for her. I’m even jealous.

I hope your week was a little smoother for you. I’m sure you and Sister Stromberg are a bright spot in your mission president’s life. Even when you come home, your life will always reflect the love you have for our Savior. Each day I always think about whether people can tell I’m a true disciple of Christ by what I say and do. I sure hope so, but I always have things to work on. Do something each day to fill your lamp with spiritual oil as it gets depleted so easily these days with all we hear and see around us in the world. We can’t just fill it on Sunday. I hope you feel our prayers for you. You’re always on my mind and in my heart and it fills me with unbelievable joy. Thank you!! 

Enjoy the summer sunshine of California.

Love you like crazy,

Mom xxoo

Fun Getaway!!

July 11, 2016

Dear Sister Kristina,

How was your week? We thought of you a lot since dad and I were in SoCal last week. It’s so great to step off the plane and feel that moist California air. Do you have that same air up there? I love feeling the beach air.

Our trip last week was very needed and it was so fun getting away with dad even if it was just for a few days. We pretended like we had no cares in the world. :) We got there early Wed morning and went straight to grandpa’s. He looks about the same, but it’s pretty obvious he struggles with things. It’s hard for him to walk, to talk, etc but then parts of the day, he told stories like usual and it was fun talking with him. 

Dad and I went to the City Block shopping area, El Pollo Loco (of course), Fashion Island, Balboa Beach, Laguna Beach, El Torito with Toni, etc.  We spent most of our time at the beach. Laguna Beach was so beautiful. I would like to go back there and spend some time.

The girls went to girls camp and it sounds like it was great. Nikki absolutely loved it. She did the 4th year hike and even went fishing and caught the most fish. The Binghams led the way so you know it was great. She said she knows she can do hard things now. Here are some pics from her 4th year hike and overnighter.

Here are a couple pics from our trip:

Balboa from the pier

From Laguna Beach:

Leah had a rougher time at camp and didn’t enjoy it as much. Sometimes she did things, but as the day wore on, she started refusing to participate, so her view of girls camp wasn’t the same as Nikki’s. But on Sunday, I heard people asking Leah how girls camp was and she said it was fun. So I don’t really know how things went, but she ended up having to call us twice while there. Then on Saturday, they stopped at a lake on the way home to boat, but both girls didn’t want to do that, so they caught rides home early. Nikki is totally looking forward to being a YCL next year, so that’s great. 

This week Nikki is getting ready for her big trip to California to stay with Aunt Jan. She leaves next Monday and flies out all by herself to Santa Maria. So I’m helping her get ready this week. She is very excited and I hope her flight goes well for her. She actually flies into San Fran first for a short layover, but she’s going to call me and I’ll help her make sure she gets to the right gate for her next flight. Then she flies straight into Santa Maria where Jan lives. In fact the airport is only about ten mintues away. Jan is very excited to have her there and is already making lots of fun plans for her. While she’s there, Leah and I will make a little trip to Utah to help celebrate Addie’s 2nd birthday!!! We face timed with them yesterday and Addie was helping make banana bread, so she was talking with Nana making nana bread. haha  She kept saying, “Nana, look.”  “Nana, eggs, look.”  So cute and I love hearing her talk to me. She says a lot of things, but some things are hard to decipher. :)  Whenever we leave, I taught her to do tight loves. But she puts her arms around herself and squeezes and says, “tight love.” 

We’re having the sister missionaries over for dinner tomorrow night. Of course, the girls voted on having Chicken Ole. It’s their missionary dinner favorite and usually none of the missionaries have ever had that. What are some of the meals you get served and what have been your favorites???

Alex’s birthday is this Friday…just FYI.

Hey, just so you remember, it’s 7/11 today if you have a 7/11 near you, go get your free slurpee!!

Sorry I was so late writing. I can’t believe how many things were going on this morning. And your letter….wow, what a week. It goes along with the thought I had yesterday for you. I can’t believe how wonderfully the spirit works.

Two things yesterday. The first was a small thing, but I still love the little reminders of how the spirit works. In RS they asked me to give the opening prayer. So during the song I all of a sudden started thinking about saying the prayer and I kept thinking about our covenants. So during my prayer I thanked Heavenly Father for the covenants we’ve been able to make with Him and how much they mean to us and to help us remember our covenants so that we can help bring our families back to Him and together.  Something along those lines. I can’t really remember now, but right after the prayer, Lonni Barker looked over at me and asked “Did you read the lesson?”  She was teaching yesterday and I was a little embarrassed to say no, that I hadn’t read the lesson. She said, “Really?” “You don’t know how perfect your prayer was for what I’ve been thinking about for my lesson.”

Then that’s when I remembered that I kept having the words “our covenants” go through my mind when I was thinking about saying the prayer. I remember that even when I prayed I asked that we might have the spirit continue to teach us through the lessons we hear, the songs we sing and the prayers we hear. I know this was a little thing, but my whole life has been full of hundreds, probably thousands of little things where I’m reminded that I have the most beautiful gift that has been given to me, the gift of the Holy Ghost.

The second thing happened when I was in Sacrament meeting. Yesterday was Grant Reeve’s farewell. He gave a wonderful talk and he sounds so prepared for his mission. At the end, the Bishop said a few words, then Pres. Shaw got up to say a few words. It was during Pres. Shaw’s remarks that I felt impressed to write something down to send to you. He said that missions are a wonderfully unique period of time. He said, “Missions magnify our weaknesses because so much happens in such a concentrated amount of time. It’s something that most of us as members have to learn throughout our whole lives, but that’s when you get on your knees and pray for strength.”

By the sound of your letter, this is exactly what happened last week. So many life lessons in such a short period of time and sometimes that just overwhelms us to the point of tears. But I read a quote about tears that said, “It’s better to cry than to be angry because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart”.  Your tears last week cleansed your soul and heart and then you moved forward with the help of the spirit. I’ve been having a lot of cleansing also lately. :) 

You have a caring, strong and empathetic soul that is so wonderful for those around you on your mission. Heavenly Father sure knew where He needed you. My heart also goes out to those sisters who are struggling with mental issues. It’s very real and they are blessed to have you, your companion and your awesome mission president and his wife in their lives.

Here’s one more picture from Laguna Beach. There was a beautiful walking path on the cliff that was above the ocean. There were so many different kinds of trees and plants and each one was unique and beautiful, yet each one has endured the hardships and blessings of living and growing in a somewhat harsh environment, the sea water, the winds, etc. This tree has been through a lot, but it was so beautiful to me because of how it had endured. I couldn’t help but take a quick picture of it.

I hope this week goes a little smoother for you and that Sister Stromberg regains all her strength back. Give her a hug for me.

Love you more than you know,

Mom xxoo

Happy 4th of July!!

July 4, 2016

Dear Sister Kristina,

Are you doing anything fun for the 4th of July celebration today? Dad has to work, so we’re on our own here. I’ll be spending the day getting the girls ready for girls camp this week. Nikki needs to get a fishing license. Bro. Bingham said he’d take her fishing and she’s excited about that. The girls also need some things for their secret sisters. This year, they are having the 4th year hike the day before girls camp, so Nikki leaves on Wed and goes on the hike, then Leah leaves on Thursday for girls camp. It’s been a little confusing, but I think we have it all straight now. What’s hard about it for us is that dad and I are leaving early Wed morning for California. So we need to have the girls completely packed and ready by Tuesday night. Plus Leah is a YCL so she’s doing extra things too. A little crazy this week.

Since we are leaving on Wed, Kayla is going to come here and stay with the girls and get them off to girls camp. It’s been so helpful to have Kayla and her husband in our ward and the girls feel comfortable with them. Kayla is even going to drop the dogs off at the kennel for us when Leah goes to camp. I’m hopeful that Leah will do well at camp. She didn’t go last year because it’s been a year now since she broke her leg. I can’t believe how different our lives are now, but I hope Leah has learned a lot, feels hope in her life and knows how to reach out for help when she needs it. It’s still a very real struggle around here, but I have faith and hope and have had so many prayers answered when I haven’t known where to turn. 

I’m excited to go to Cali with dad this week, but it’s been such a whirlwind with our many trips to Utah that it’s hard to relax about it. I know when we get there it will be great and once I see the beach I’ll feel totally at home and relaxed. Grandpa is excited for us to come too.

Last week we had a great time in Utah and Kirk gave a beautiful blessing to Haylee. We stayed in a hotel close to their house so we were able to run back and forth quickly. We brought Addie over to the hotel so she could swim with the girls too. I’m pretty sure she thinks Nana’s house has a pool now. haha Here are some pics from our trip:

We went to temple square one day

We went to City Creek one day with Kirk and Addie and ate at Johnny Rockets

Leah loves holding Haylee

But then one time she was holding her and Haylee laid on Leah’s lion necklace, so this happened…oh oh

Here’s the Luscher group that came for the blessing. Addie is in the picking the nose phase and Haylee was done with pictures at this point. The family on the right are cousins that came and just happened to be visiting in the states at the same time.

I love this picture of Haylee sleeping in Grandma Thompson’s lap.

Kirk and Haylee. We love her hair. It won’t lay down flat unless you put gel on it and it’s soooo soft.

Here’s Leah and you can see her lion necklace in this picture.

The cute family!

Little helper

Someone wasn’t happy about Canada Day or maybe she just didn’t like saying “cheese”!!

Sarah’s mom stayed with her for a whole month after having Haylee and was such a big help for her. They left back to Canada yesterday. Sarah’s feeling good now and is in a pretty good routine with both girls, so hopefully she’ll do well without her mom there. I love watching Kirk with his girls. He’s such a fun dad and so sweet to Sarah.

After the blessing at their church on Wed night, we set up half the gym for a light dinner. It was so hot last week, so we knew we had to have things indoors to keep cool and luckily most the youth (mutual) were doing things away from the building so it was pretty empty. We had plenty of food. I brought a crockpot of meatballs. 

Also while we were in Utah, we saw the new Finding Dory movie, the girls went to 7 Peaks with Chloe for an afternoon, Leah had some neurofeedback sessions with dad’s cousin Rebeccah, and of course on our way to Utah, we had our funny story of being suspected of being kidnappers/terrorists. We also went golfing at the new Top Golf place in Utah. We went to the Top Golf in Chicago and now Utah has one. Kirk, Leon, dad, Nikki and I went and it was really fun. I like golfing when there are extra large holes to hit your ball into and really good food to eat while you’re waiting for your buddies to hit. haha We’ll definitely take you there one time. You’d love it.

Dad’s cousins and grandma and grandpa went to Wyoming last weekend, so he got to visit with them before they left.

Our sister missionaries in our ward are so cute and outgoing. They said summer is a really slow time for them because so many of their investigators are out of town, etc so they want to do a bunch of service and are willing to help with anything. So I’ll try to think of something here I can use some help with. I showed them your picture of crushing the cans for service.

Here’s one more pic of a beautiful sunset here the other night. We have great sunsets just about every other night and I love them: 

I think of you when I see the sunsets because I remember how much you like them too. We had a great lesson in our family relations class yesterday. It was on helping children become more resilient. There was a part where they were talking about missionaries and how there are some who have a difficult time because they haven’t learned to bounce back after things don’t go their way and they are trying so hard to be perfect so that blessings can come and they don’t understand when things don’t go the way they want. It was the most common cause of emotional problems, lack of resilience, a misunderstanding of the commandment to be perfect. In the lesson it said, “But the Lord works through weak, simple servants”.  Miracles and blessings will come as we keep our covenants, try our best and respond quickly to the promptings of the Holy Ghost. Our worth needs to come from knowing that “we become fully developed or complete through the atonement of Christ as we strive to follow Him” Matt. 5:48 

It’s Heavenly Father’s timing that is important because He knows each of us and what we need, when we need it. A new sister in our ward talked of her conversion and how it took 3 years of missionaries. She just needed that time and she is now a very strong member, the only one in her family (who are all very anti Mormon). But in times of trial now, her family members turn to her for guidance and help because they can see the peace in her life. 

I’m grateful for you and how I’ve seen your resilience to hard things and challenges and how you’ve learned where your true worth comes from-knowing who you really are and who is always with you. I’m grateful for this same knowledge. It brings a peace that can be found nowhere else and I am truly blessed with this knowledge and to have had parents who taught me these truths. I’m grateful you are teaching others these same truths. Keep the faith.

Have a wonderful week!!!

Love you,

Mom xxoo