Stephanie Mast
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221 appearances
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2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Yeah, we have a house loaded with Nerf guns. So we're like the cool boy house. Nice.
One at a time.
We can go along with it.
this is our third year. So when we do an online format, so I don't have to do the grading or the lesson planning, it's all done for me. So I really, because we literally, I mean, life was happening so fast at that time between the traveling that we were doing for the litigation and we moved and then started homeschooling like all within a couple month period.
So we needed something that was very, just open it and go. And so that's what we've been doing and the kids like it.
Well, I'm a very structured person by nature. So for me personally, it was because they were going to school beforehand. So the school, that was the structure. So all of a sudden for that to be put on me, I mean, I pretty much adopted the same rhythm as a school. But...
me setting the structure that was a learning process for me and then also just juggling bouncing back back and forth between eighth grade science and then kindergarten reading and phonics like that can bend your it can be a little bit challenging switching back and forth in between different grades and modes of time and answering questions but um i'm i'm getting the hang of it
Eight-grade math is his.
Well, and the nature of your work that you don't have your devices.
Yeah, so it was fall of 2019. We knew that the deployment was coming up. It was going to be short, but still just, you know, with kids and family life, we were anticipating trying to gear up for it. And then it happened earlier than anticipated. So I was in my final semester of grad school working on my thesis project, and you found out that you were going to go.
So personally, like on the personal side, it was not the best timing in the world. So I felt like I was scrambling, trying to get ready to, you know— hold down the fort with three young children and be ready for you to go. So that was an intense time.
They said about 45 days old.
Yeah, so he calls me, and it was the afternoon, my time, and that was not a normal time for him to call. And so immediately, just, you know, your mind is racing. Why is he calling me in the middle of the day? Something happened. And so I picked up the phone urgently, like, you know, are you okay? Everything good?
And I'll never forget the first thing he said was, he's like, honey, he's like, there's this baby. And I remember I was in the kitchen, I just stopped. And I was like, and I could tell by his tone that something, this was significant, there was something. So he proceeded to tell me that there was a baby recovered off an objective, you know, parents were killed.
And they don't know what they're going to do with this baby. And so I had a similar reaction to him. I was like, well, we'll volunteer. We can do it. We'll help and take the baby if there's nothing we can do. There's nothing that can be done if she doesn't... At that time, we didn't know if it was a boy or a girl. But like... You can't leave a baby there.
And so he's like, well, he's like, slow down. He's like, I'm glad you said that because I already volunteered. And he's like, I'm glad to know we're on the same page. He's like, but, you know, they're going to do a family trace and there's a long, it's a long shot. We're just, you know, we'll see how it plays out. But good to know that we're on the same page.
And so that's pretty much where we left it that first conversation.
So a couple weeks in, like he mentioned, we get our very first photo. And we call it now, we call it the baby in the box. And that was the first time we learned that she was a girl and got to see her for the first time. But up until that point, when I got that initial call initially, And I debated whether or not, I mean, the boys were early, or they were pretty young at the time.
I wasn't going to really tell them that much. But I was so impressed that there's just like, there's this child out there that is in limbo. Its future, its fate is in limbo. And so I remember one night, it was a Wednesday night, and I was putting the boys to bed. And I mentioned to them this baby. And I said, we need to pray for this baby. And I didn't know, of course, a name or anything.
So it's like there's a song, like an old hymn that says, Eyes on the Sparrow. And so we decided to call it Baby Sparrow. And so we would just, you know, I'd tuck the boys in bed at night. We'd pray for Baby Sparrow. And it was a good shift for myself because—
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