The Call

So much has happened in the last few months I forgot I even have a blog :(

Our oldest decided to serve an 18 month mission for our church. We waited NOT so patiently for the call to come in the mail and the news finally came on July 6, 2013. Kiarra will serve 18 months in the Salem, Oregon mission, reporting to the MTC on October 2, 2013.

There are these things that happen in our life as a parent...the first call to the school to say your child hit another child that makes you hang your head in parental shame...the letter stating that your baby is in the accelerated reading program and is in the top of the class that makes you strut like the proverbial parental chicken with a little "yeah that's right, that my girl!" The moment that one child explodes a glass bowl on the stove because "how was she suppose to know you can't cook in cereal bowls" that makes you wonder if only for a moment, if said child had fallen one too many times growing up....the 1 am text waking you, to ask mom please come to my room, to get there and find your child would like you to go get them some more chips...that makes you worry they will never be able to leave home. I have been a worried mama, I have been a sad mama, and I have been a proud mama....it was at 1:10 pm on July 6th, 2013 that I became a missionaries mama....truly my most profound parental moment!

Kiarra is such a blessing in our lives. She is truly an exceptional person; I am at times astonished that she is my child. After she read her call and the realness that this "IS" happening settled in, I felt my shoulders throw back and my head lift and put on my big ole' "my missionary can kick your missionary's butt" grin...my greatest mama moment!

I think I managed to hit every landmine while raising Kiarra and at times I wonder if I raised her or if she in fact raised me....either way right now I couldn't be happier with the way we both turned out!

Sister Kiarra Zubicki you make your mama proud!