I don’t know about anyone else, but stress alarms start pinging in my brain and heart on the first of November. Oh I love this month so much, but the thought of all the things that will be packed into these next seven weeks takes my heartbeats up a few notches. So I have been…
Traditions are like glue holding a family together even after they aren’t really “together” any more. And I love things like that more than ever these days since so many of my kids aren’t snuggled up with me “together” here right now. One tradition I LOVE is our Thanksgiving tradition: our “Thankful Tree.” Our Thankful…
Our good old Thankful Tree is holding strong stretching across our kitchen once again. It sat with only a few leaves for a couple days, and then Lucy decided to get busy with those leaves! We worked our little hearts out thinking of all the many things we are SO GRATEFUL for one night when…
We put up the good old Thanksgiving Tree for Family Home Evening this week. Claire had “open gym” for volleyball (we’re trying that out…lots to say about Claire and sports soon because we are going nutty overload with that stuff right now), so for the first part so it was just these two sisters. And…
We started our traditional “Thankful Tree” on the first FHE in November. It’s gradually gaining more and more gratitude leaves each day. Hopefully it will be all filled up like it was last year by Thanksgiving. Oh man I love November. So much to be grateful for! So this Monday we decided to gather to…
Ok, I am really starting my gratitude posts as of today. Because it’s already November 12th for crying out loud! How did that happen? I’m grateful for my computer. It’s getting fixed and there’s nothing like absence to make the heart grow fonder. Oh boy that was a good investment. So grateful for how my…
When girls turn eight in our church they get to start going to “Activity Days,” (they get to meet with all the other girls in the congregation and do activities based on ideas from the Faith in God program here. It’s a pretty darn fun way to learn how to strengthen their testimonies, serve others, study the…
Each year at the beginning of November we whip up our traditional “Thankful Tree.” It hangs on the fridge all month and when we think of something we are grateful for, WHAM, we can slap a thankful leaf or two up on that thing. This year the tree has been slow in coming. Sometimes life…
I had a bad day the other day. Sometimes I worry so much about Lucy it makes me sick. She’s getting into some bad habits we can’t seem to help her kick no matter what new whiz-bang tactics we try. Sometimes it gets me so sad because she’s been doing so well for so long….