This image above was captured at Depoe Bay, Oregon on Mother’s Day, May 9, 2004. This was just a short few weeks before I started this blog when Christian was 8 and Kelly was 10. I started writing as a tool to help prepare for their third and fifth grade school years, having decide to pull them from the truly horrific Albany, Oregon public schools and homeschool them ourselves. The image below was captured on the North Carolina State University campus when Christian and Kelly graduated from college on Mother’s Day, May 10, 2014. The kids had skipped high school and graduated from college when Christian was 18 and Kelly was 20, large due to the dedication and support of their mother. Seeing these picture and reflecting on those times and places were a good reminders of what a spectacular mother and wife is Lorena.And beautiful, too–then and now.