Carolina in my mind
It’s been a week now since I knew she was gone, and numbness has slid into something like peace.
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global portfolio return attribution
The topic at hand has to do with if a global portfolio manger outperformed (or underperfomed) a benchmark, what was the cause of the outperformance (or underperformance)? Was it primarily about stock picking in certain countries? Or the overweighting of certain countries’ markets?
Easter threads and tractor treads
Happy Easter from the House of Gjertsen! We are so thankful for God’s sacrificial gift of His own Son. Every year we live, the hope of resurrection and eternal life gets sweeter.
saying goodbye again
Four years ago tonight, our firstborn came into the world. We visited his grave on Good Friday during our trip to Orlando. I was surprised… Read More »saying goodbye again
the monsters in our closet
Thank you to everyone who prayed for the test results from Carolina Grace and our appointment with the hi-risk doc. The results came in, so I met with Dr. L. and a geneticist Monday, fully prepared to hear them say, “I’m sorry, but we will just never know why this happened.”
But that’s not what they said.
addition and multiplication
Clearly, our plans to grow our family have encountered some sort of mysterious obstacle. The theme verse of this blog, “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain” (from Psalm 127:1) has taken on meaning we did not fully expect when we chose it. Abby and I are both so thankful for the Lord’s abiding comfort and for being our refuge, redeemer, and lifter of our heads during so many deviations from the script we would have written.