To give you a little update …

Some of you long-time readers may have noticed that I’ve been posting more links and less “personal” blogs lately. I just wanted to give you all a little explanation as to why …

After I finished serving at the women’s conference in Chicago this past weekend, I stayed on in Illinois to help a family member who is going through a bit of a medical emergency.

It is an honor to serve and I’m so glad to be here helping. But we’re headed toward day seven of being away from Fred, Sophia, and Lilikoi … and of course, these situations are always stressful because people we care about are in need. (Plus, Fred is having to do his two jobs AND all of the domestic duties at home too–ably helped with childcare needs by our dear friend Sarah!!–so I feel the weight of that too.)

Anyway … I don’t have a timeline yet on when I might be getting to go home. And the days are full and exhausting. So I’m trying to post things that might be encouraging and edifying to you all … but I haven’t had much free time to do anything else.

Hope you understand! And, of course, thanks in advance for your prayers.

Sending you love–
 Tara B.

PS
Being away from home for this length of time just makes me OH SO GRATEFUL for webcams!! If you have grandchildren or family or friends that are far away, I REALLY encourage you to webcam with them. Even like this morning … I had been up until 2:30AM and Fred & Soph were busy busy getting through the morning routine … but Fred just put his laptop on the kitchen table and I “forced myself” (even though exhausted) to get up so that I’d overlap with them. And I could just hang out and have breakfast and talk and laugh with them. Soph showed me drawings she had done yesterday. Lili popped her nose over the table when she heard my voice. It was great.

Just wanted to mention how cool webcams are when you’re missing people. Happy Tuesday! Love–t