Category Archives: Personal

{ Today. }

Memorial Information Here. Today I watched Dave and Donna, Nikki and John, Mom and Ken all drive away. Headed back to Rapid City. I couldn’t bring myself to go to Rapid yet. To sit and wait for Friday. I just couldn’t do it. So … I let them go and turned back around and into...

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{ Wayne David Koop … July 7, 1972 – February 5, 2011 }

Last night Wayne left us to be with the Lord. For My Love … Isaiah 46:3-4 Listen to Me, you whom I have upheld since you were conceived and have carried since your birth. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am He and I am He who will sustain you. I have...

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{ Letting Go … }

I don’t know how to tell this story. He went to the hospital. We thought he had a hip fracture. Except he didn’t. But whatever happened to him … he went somewhere else and never came back to us. We waited in the hospital for hope. Laying in the bed, thin and pale and under...

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{ Singing Birds. }

This weekend I had lots of girl time. It comes with good food, inappropriate topics, lots of laughing, supporting one another, making fun of one another, loving one another. The conversations are always fast, jump from place to place, and always FUNNY. This weekend, the topic seemed to circle around friendship and it just stayed...

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{ 2010. The End. }

It’s time to turn this year’s blog entries into a book. A book for the chickens to look back on (when they can read and don’t just manhandle the pages, mind you.) when they are curious about what 2010 was all about. I can just hear Claire saying, “Mom?! You dressed like that?!” And Caeden,...

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