"traditions"

I know your family has a lot of traditions and routines. What traditions did you start when they were young? Or which do you wish you would have started? Oh the answer to this question could be very long and lengthy. Especially as I am in a time of life…

Claire just told me today that this is her own favorite Christmas tradition too. We love that there is an outlined idea each day. Something easy and doable for everyone. Something that helps us to remember the real reason for this season. To carry light in our own unique ways.…

To be real, usually I’m flying by the seat of my pants in preparation for General Conference (which comes in April and October), but this year I got my act together earlier than usual.   I bought Dave some beautiful flowers to give me (ha! I love to help him…

Like most families, we have a bunch of Christmas traditions. I love each and every one of them. Because they make us slow down enough amidst the hustle and bustle to feel the Christmas air thicken around us. Probably my favorite is reading a Christmas story under the Christmas tree…

post edit note: THANK YOU so much for all the wonderful Easter ideas. I’ll be hard at work trying to figure out what to incorporate. And yes, the crib is now gone. I’m glad someone could use it and I wish I had a bunch more (because that would mean…

We are working on a few things in our family. One of them is that we are trying to create some good habits. Sure, we’ve got some good ones down: We work before play on Saturdays and we try our best to read together at night. We have family movie…

Growing up we had some crazy family traditions. I have two favorites: The first was my Dad’s birthday tradition. His birthday falls in October, which is a perfect month for him since he’s completely enamored by Fall leaves. I know, everyone loves the colors of Fall. But my Dad, serious…

I know I’ve already said it in so many words, but this has probably been the most stressful Christmas season yet. (Hence the reason why I’m up at 5:45…don’t ask me why I’m doing my blog instead of a million other things that need to be done, but, hey, this…

The summer semester ended for Grace and for Claire. Grace’s ended earlier than Claire’s, and she’s been working double shifts up there, sometimes with fun visitors: (Mini cousins Moses and Gabe.) Also reunions with dear mission friends and fun adventures with new friends: Claire’s semester ended with a bang, trying…

We left the hotel in Cancun in the wee hours of Christmas Eve morning to get home to Elle and Carson who were arriving a couple hours before us. That light in the Houston airport (layover) was so incredibly beautiful bringing in that holy day. We arrived to our rainy,…