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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost The Best Reason Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #4 is physically intimidating. He has deep-set eyes, and he’s almost a foot…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My husband loves machines. He often displayed considerably more affection for them than he did for his children when they were growing up. Of course, to be fair, machines seldom talked back or refused to show…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #3 in an oncologist. Last winter his three-year-old son asked for “comfy chair in comfy shade” for Christmas. His parents searched the internet and eventually found a cabana-style chair designed for children. It has two…
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in..” Robert Frost When Son #6 turned twelve years old, he began giving me grief about having to go to church every Sunday. “It’s boring and a waste of time,” he complained. “We hear the same stuff over and…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Most of our summer vacations were connected to visits with family. A trip to see my sister provided a tornado in Biloxi. James’s dad lived in Houston, so one visit there involved a hurricane. Las Vegas…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost This week Son #4 initiated a question on our family text string about Son #2. I don’t know his motivation for the request, but I was pretty shocked when one of my children brought up a…
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Robert Frost When my husband finished college, he and a friend contracted with a Navajo businessman to build a full-service restaurant/meeting room in Crownpoint, New Mexico, a tiny Native American community at almost 7,000 feet elevation in the…
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Robert Frost I’ve always loved to read. My very earliest childhood memories include being tucked in bed while my dad sat beside my brother and me as he read aloud The Jungle Book or tales from Hans Christian…
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Robert Frost My granddaughter, who is a BYU student, has been staying with us off and on since the Utah Governor ordered a “Stay Home, Stay Safe” proclamation in the face of the COVID 19 pandemic, and all…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #3 and his wife sent posted a sweet Marco Polo video recently of three of their children singing a Primary song as part of Sunday church in their living room. Their two-year old, on the…