General Conference Weekend

I always look forward to General Conference weekend.  Aside from the many beautifully prepared and presented talks, its a time to be together with my family, a stress-free Sunday where I can sit and listen and have my cup filled.  I’ve tried to make it fun for the children by making a special breakfast, usually [...]

20/20

I was looking through some piles of papers looking for an itemized bill from the an optometrist visit last year and I found this notebook that Kraven left at our house two years ago in Lynchburg. Finding things like that feels like opening a portal to the next world. I searched the pages [...]

Things I’ve learned about funerals

1. Food! Holy smokes I’ve never seen so much food flow into one household before in my life. Apparantly, there are two kinds of people in the world. The kind who hang back and are afraid to “bother” the mourning family and the kind who show up with arms full of food, [...]

Dear Kraven,
There are so many things I wish today. I wish I could have been humble enough to learn all the hard, sad lessons I’ve learned in the past few days while you were alive. Family relationships are important. Every single one. I know you knew that. You learned it [...]

Grief

I’ve been observing grief and I think the mind is very powerful. People walking around in a daze, staring off somewhere, their minds flashing, searching, grasping at pleasant and unpleasant memories. Its like our minds have to catalogue everything at once to determine what our memory will be of this person. Some [...]

It doesn’t seem possible

I feel sick. I’ve never felt so sick to my heart. My sweet sister in law was visited by the nightmare no mother should ever have to endure this morning. My niece slipped out of this world. It doesn’t even seem possible. At this moment she is on life support. [...]