Bride and groom stand atop a hill overlooking the Missouri River after their wedding ceremony

When Your Daughter Gets Married-The Day We Gained Another Son

July 10, 2026

Welcome to Part Two-the wedding! The glorious event was already eight days ago. It is hard to believe, and at the rate I am going with finishing this post they will be celebrating their month anniversary before I complete it. These posts take me hours to finish, and when the subject is something this monumental, they take even longer because I want them to be perfect—for the sake of our family's history, so we can look back on them for years to come.The memories are always so important to ...

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When Your Daughter Gets Married-A Mother's Heart Behind the Camera

July 10, 2026

As a new parent, there is one milestone you pray for when you hold your newborn baby. You know it will eventually come, and you even look forward to it. Yet, even while they are still infants, there is part of you that hopes it takes a very long time to get there. Well, for Eric and me, that time has come and already passed. Our little girl has grown up and gotten married. On July 2, our daughter Rylee married the love of her life, Nate Symens. There will be two parts to this story. Not ...

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Sunlight shining through green leaves with ripe mulberries on a vine in southern Minnesota

What Mulberry Season Reminds Me About Legacy

June 18, 2026

There is something so rewarding about gathering produce outside, especially if you haven’t had to do anything to make it grow.It is mulberry season here in the Midwest. For my kids, mulberry season usually means avoiding the trees altogether. They have never been the biggest fans of picking the tiny berries. Me, on the other hand, I absolutely love it.In years past, I have been sad when I was too busy working or directing VBS to stop and gather multiple buckets and instead only caught the ...

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