Merry Christmas 2025
Dear Friends and Family,
We hope you are doing well this Christmas. This has been a challenging year for us. My mom began showing some signs of dementia in 2024. Every month when we visited her, she was markedly worse. By April, we were flying to Seattle every couple of weeks. We moved her from Assisted Living to Long Term Care, and then, in July, moved her to dementia care just a few minutes from our home.
In October, she unexpectedly passed away in her sleep, just 2 months shy of her 100th birthday. We miss her, but are grateful the Lord took her home without pain. His love certainly gives us hope she is now reunited with her mom and dad, and siblings, which is what she longed for. We’ll see her again one day. We are looking forward to her memorial service in Seattle in January—a rare opportunity to be with all of the kids and grandkids, Brian’s family, and friends.
Kevin turned 70 in June. We converged at our house for his milestone birthday. He continues to settle into retirement and loves meeting with people for spiritual direction. He has been dealing with increasing knee pain and is looking forward to knee replacement early next year. Our physical ailments and my mother’s passing have made our mortality difficult to ignore.
I continue to lead NEWIM (Network of Evangelical Women in Ministry) and thoroughly enjoy it. We celebrated our 40th anniversary in September with a wonderful luncheon/reunion in Southern Cal. Women came from all over the country. It was so great to see so many dear friends in person.
The family is doing well. Ashley’s twins met all of their 2-year-old milestones. We spend most Wednesdays with them, having a blast with Luca and Tommy. They run everywhere, laugh a lot, and love being read to. It’s a blessing to have them just an hour away.
Thanksgiving: Enzo, Luca, Ashley, Tommy; Kaia, Micah, Wendy, Jeff, Shawn, and Luann
We marvel every day that Jesus came, so he could open the way for us to know him and be with him forever. We are encouraged by the Apostle Paul’s words: “Therefore, we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” We seek to follow his example, “fixing our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
May you know his love this Christmas, Kevin and Luann