Easter

I wrote a little on Instagram about how “prepare” was my “one word” a few years back (although I can’t, for the life of me, find that actual post, but HERE is a list of other “one words” through the years…which makes me realize I still need to do a…

Three of the five of us at home woke up on the WRONG side of the bed on Easter morning. It was grumpy city around here I tell you! Which, I must say, did a number on the two who weren’t already in bad moods. Which, of course, is not…

I talked a little about my little Easter epiphany back HERE, but I didn’t have enough time to delve into what actually brought that epiphany so here goes. I feel like I have been herding cats lately. Everyone is in and out, in and out. And then we came to…

I love that new video, but perhaps I love this one even more: Oh and this one: As they say in my beloved Romania: “Isus a inviat” “Adevarat, a inviat” He Lives. Hallelujah! Happy Easter with love.

Years ago when we lived in Virginia, three little toddlers clinging to my legs, I was part of a “Family Home Evening group.” What is that? you may ask. Well, it was a group of eight (or so) moms who made up all kinds of crafty things for Family Home…

I loved having General Conference intermixed with Easter this last weekend. Maybe it was extra rejuvenating because since school was out for two extra days, we headed to Newport. It was pretty chaotic getting out the door, but the blue sky, salty air, the light that is just different here,…

***Post edit note, Conference is so beautifully uplifting today! There is one more session this afternoon, if you’d like to tune in, click HERE. You will be filled with love and hope. And then, after the darkness and the suffering, the anguish and the pain, the ashes…. …came the beauty.…

There was a day in Sedona last month where my sisters and I came across this scene at the Chapel of the Holy Cross. We sat in that simple chapel in awed reverence looking up. Up at the symbolism we discussed in hushed tones, the depiction of that Savior who…

As we have been preparing for Easter this week with our traditional little yellow “Holy Week” cards lined up above the fireplace, (I always wish we could do it better than we are doing it, but we are trying at least!), we read this somewhere (talking about Christ’s miracles): “On…