Endings are hard. We are not made to say goodbye.

This past April, we took our kids to Washington, DC for Spring Break. It was so inspiring to be in the place where all the action is, where our government is at work, where so much of our nation's history is stored and remembered... We could have stayed for weeks to take it all in! The trip was also a great teaching moment for us for so many reasons. Though our country and nation's capital is full of American ideals, they are really more like our hope, what we want to aspire

I received an email from the principal of my kids' school yesterday informing me of their plans to have an intruder drill at school today. My heart sank. It is mind boggling that my elementary age children live in a world where they have to practice what to do in case there is an active shooter at their school. And yet, this is the reality with mass shootings happening in our country nearly every month. At the end of the summer I watched a video of the Daily Show host Trevor