adventures

Every four years our stake (group of ward congregations) goes on a “trek.” I wrote all about what in the world that is back HERE when I got to go last time, but just real quick (and this is gonna sound weird to those who have never heard of it…

Each year our church holds a girls’ summer camp (see ours from a few years ago back HERE). This year we’re not doing a real camp since we are doing a Trek (comes around every four years, our last one is back HERE).   But the 4th-year campers always do…

Some things that parents do really stick. Sometimes that knowledge is what keeps me going in a world of eye-rolling and mother-ignoring. I know I did it to my parents too. The big eye roll when my mom played her classical music. The sigh that we had to do our…

Below is a selection from my journal entry from the end of China as I sat in the quiet auditorium after most of the other parents had left following the Christmas program.  I loved that it was a “Christmas” concert in a nation that is not really historically considered “Christian.”…