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Happy New Year from the Joe Swenson Family! It’s been a very big year, so we have tried our best to condense it for you. January started out rough for our little family with the loss of Nilla’s mother, Solveig Ensign, who struggled for many years with Cystic Fibrosis. God brought us all through it [...]

Lately I’ve been looking out the window and wondering, “will the grass ever be green again?”. While I’m stuffing 56 broken crayons into the coloring box and looking for another shelf to stash textbooks on I muse, “public school is not so bad?”. After the third load of laundry today I think, “are nudest colonies [...]

The Montana Swenson Clan Year In Review – 2010 It’s always hard to recall what happened over a year’s time. These days I have a hard time even remembering what we did yesterday let alone 8 months ago. I guess that’s why it’s good to write things down. Although it seems impossible and trite to [...]

Was totally out of breath…lol

When I received my Spring TEACH magazine, I glanced at the theme, “Marriages Made Marvelous”. My first thought was, oh no they’re going to show me how I’m failing at my marriage! I was reluctant to read anything past the cover, but since I was on a 26 hour driving trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma I [...]