Back in May Claire tried out for club soccer. To be honest, Dave and I had tried just a tad to veer her away from it. There are SO many sports she still wants to try, and club soccer has pretty much taken over her life. So we thought it might be a good…
Technology is such an important topic to discuss with your family. Here is a family home evening lesson on technology. We are talking about how to unplug and regulate the use of technology in your home.
There are a few poignant things I remember from my freshman year at Boston University. I remember my Art History class. Being submerged in the darkness of the auditorium while watching slide after slide of the history of art. I was enthralled. I drank it all in…the medieval times two-dimentionality to the Impressionists to the…
Over the years and years since this became my favorite “hosting” dessert (I talked about it back here), my friends and I have tried to come up with new, more exotic names for it. I mean, “warm chocolate cake” just doesn’t seem to do this delectable stuff justice. We’ve called it “molten lava cake” and…
You wrote a post a while ago about having a very shy child and how you and your husband made a plan which really helped. My almost 5 yr old daughter is very shy around other people and is even uncomfortable performing (gymnastics class…) in front of her family. What exactly were you able to…
Is your community mostly LDS (Mormon)? Do your children have any non-LDS friends? Do you have any non-LDS family members? If so, how do you teach your children to interact with those non-LDS classmates / family? If not, how are you exposing them to people of other faiths? I ask because one of the things…