This week we invested in 21 scholarships to the conference for under-represented minorities and I can’t stop grinning about that. I'm genuinely thrilled with the changes we made this year and I believe this is going to be a remarkable, healing, fun, hopeful, and life-changing two days. But doing the work we loved still is healing, too. Her fingerprints are on everything we built for this year and in a way being there without her was another layer of loss to uncover. Throughout the visit, there was a very near undercurrent of grief that Rachel wasn't there to see this next part of our dream come into being. The main stage is in the hockey arena when we chose that site, Rachel teased me mercilessly about having church in the hockey arena as peak Canadian conference planning - she found it hilarious. We met in Denver to do our last site visit before the big event and it was.a lot. We've been at Level 10 Planning for Evolving Faith which is in just 75 days (pro tip: if you want to make my pal - and textbook Ennegram 6 - Jeff Chu panic, just tweet that information at him every day as a countdown - good times!). Hey, fellow work-from-home parents, isn't summer grand? /aIzGiIZiLS

I tweeted about it a little while ago and the responses made me feel a little less crazy and a little less alone - and they made me laugh. Solidarity to all the work-from-home parents: this is our Waterloo.

She is counting down the days until everyone is back to her court. I keep presenting options like 'cleaning' and 'organizing' and “sitting quietly while reading” but to no avail. Compared to three older siblings who dote on her all day, apparently Mum is a downgrade. My two big kids are away at camp this week and one of our younger two is at a day camp so it's been just me and our preschooler for the first time since school let out and she is, well, unimpressed.

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