I always said I wanted a tattoo. I just didn’t know what I wanted forever. It was that word, “forever” that got me every time I thought about it. What could I put on my body that would still mean something to me when I was 70? 100?

I liked the way a simple word looked. If you go to my Pinterest page, you will find that over the year, I had pinned a few word tattoos. Faith. Courage. Love.

But again, the “forever” was the thing that got me.

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4-Times eating ice cream

The girls will play!

Brad is coaching MSU basketball camp all week.  Jake is back in Delaware teaching for the week. Gabe arrives this weekend. 

For documentation sake, the following are Allie and my speeches from the Life as a Zebra Foundation’s second annual, “An Evening With Chris Trapper and opener, Joshua Davis Trio, to Benefit Invisible Illness Research” held at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center on April 13, 2013.

Allie and I have an entire summer off together in the same zip code.

This hasn’t happened in years.

Who knows if it will ever happen again.