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chillin’ outdoors

chillin’ outdoors

February 15, 2009March 26, 2016 stefanieboyce

Last weekend it was so nice we thought we would spend the day outside! It almost felt like spring!

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Our Airbnb is listed! Family coming to town? Want to host a bridal or baby shower but don’t have the space? How about a girls staycation? Close enough to get the kids on and off the bus, but affordable and fun for your friends! Need some quiet to write or work? Whatever the reason, we’d love it if you’d help us fill our place with love and memories. So share away! And, Joan has a 2 bedroom duplex down the road so there’s room to rent both! Simply go to Airbnb.com and search Beach Park, IL or follow the link in bio!
Navigating family photos after someone you love passes is difficult. It just feels wrong. Hard. It’s a painful truth you don’t necessarily want or need a reminder of. At the same time, you also know, even this moment-the one you’re breathing in now with the other people you love-is worth remembering. Especially now, because now you know. So we bravely say, “smile.” Some people hold framed pictures of their loved ones. Others get them photoshopped in, sometimes faded. A few people leave empty space to symbolize the place someone once-was-still-is. My friend Shannon wrote awhile back about a painting she saw. The artist painted into a family portrait a naked baby to symbolize the child that passed. Others mention their name and the truth, “always missing Ethan.” Like my friend Jessica’s beautiful Christmas card read. We have a desperate desire to remember. We fumble around trying to “move forward” but we struggle navigating the “with” and “without” in life, and, in family photos. Because many of the bereaved know a truth. We move forward ....with AND without. They are not gone....AND a part of them really is. It’s both. It’s always both. While their physical bodies are tragically, painfully missing...their spirits are very much present. Love continues and multiplies. Love never dies. I knew I wanted to use lights to symbolize their continued presence with us. It hasn’t felt right yet to take a family photo until recently. It’s one reason I stopped sending Christmas cards. It’s why we hesitate before signing the bottom of a card.... Love, Jut, Stefanie, Ellie......... scratch......and the kids......scratch.......(J+B too!)....... scratch.....Love, The Boyces. They continue to draw people near. They continue to lead people Jesus. They continue to be remembered. We continue to be 5. And that all is worth remembering. 📷: @directionphotographybykelly [2Corinthians 4]
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We’ve done a lot of life together, dear small group. And although it may be awhile until we are back in this house like this, I’m holding out we will repeat this picture with palm trees behind us when you come visit! 🌴 Thank you for loving us and showing up for us in the hardest days of J and Bs passings, for loving us broken, for speaking life and hope in us. And of course, spoiling us with your love. We are forever grateful.
Closing, opening, expanding. Stopped by Laremont to drop off a long awaited gift to Brookie’s teacher. Ms. Vicki had a braid in her hair today. It reminded me—down the the color—of B’s hair. Ms. Vicki has never been one for emotions...but man, she and B have a special bond! It’s unbroken by time or space. I feel unusually connected to her because of it. Anyway, it was weird walking away from Laremont. Can’t say If I’ll ever be back. In some ways, dropping off a final piece of our children there was closure for me. A finished chapter. This was the last reason to return. I will always stay in touch with the people, though. They contain pieces and stories of my children in them. Laremont might be closed, but my heart isn’t. I know I keep saying it, but it’s proving true again and again: love continues and multiplies. Even as seasons close, environments change, love continues. Love remains.
What an amazing, thoughtful “see you later” dinner in the city! @judymaldonado5442 and @javimaldo721 thank you for speaking life into us, for cheering us on as we jump, and reminding us who we are. You both are so precious to us and made us feel so loved last night. Going to the city was such a wonderful surprise, and your right, Jayden would love us going! #23 #michiganave #sweethomechicago
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