The Come Follow Me devotional a couple weeks ago really got me thinking. It was given by Tiffany Tomsik and I loved it because she talked about our constant state of absorbing and emanating light. You know in the covid days when you would walk through those areas in airports, etc. that could track, just…
My “one word” for 2021 came so quickly and easily this year, and it has still taken me until March to write about it. But better late than never, right? I opened up my scriptures for our new study of the Doctrine & Covenants back in January, and the first word, written all in caps,…
My friend Vanessa (yes, the one who started Chatbooks…she’s pretty awesome!) asked me to talk with her on her #momforce podcast about the “one word” dealio I do each year. She figured it would be a good way for moms to start into their pondering about the big 2020 right around the corner. Not the…
We weren’t quite ready to instigate our new “school year theme” at the beginning of the school year. We chose “self-discipline” last year and, well, we didn’t quite feel like we had that concept under our belts very well yet by the time the new school year rolled around. But like everything, self-discipline isn’t something…
Over the holiday season one phrase spoke to me over and over and over again: “But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.” It’s from Luke 2:19, and it hit me so much that when I saw these images of both my “Marys” from Christmas Eve show up on my camera…
Happy New Year! We are up in a glorious winter wonderland and I’ve meant to sit down and post these New Years ideas for a few days but phew! There’s a lot going on up here! And I’ve been living it up I tell you! But it’s 2020! And although I have no idea how…
I mentioned that our ward church congregation got all split up before the summer. It was a pretty big shift and change for all of us. Our ward was enveloped into three different wards, and then so many people were in and out during the blasted-hot-desert summer that it’s been a little tricky for us…
Since we’re talking stories (last post), let’s delve into a new one today. There was once a girl who was brave and courageous. Because of an extremely rare syndrome, she dealt with dwindling vision loss and some other struggles with learning at school. That girl also had a will of steel. Sometimes it was difficult…
Years ago I wrote about this wing-dinger of a family bank: What’s that you say? You can’t read the engraving? That’s because that thing is as old as the hills. I mean, that sucker was around when I was a kid for crying out loud. So I’ll translate: Those words carefully carved into that wooden…