The importance of what’s on our walls: walls quotes On honoring how unique each child is: talents praise star of the month awards instilling confidence five-facet reviews Teaching hard work: hard work & independence parenting breakthrough hard work enjoying the journey (working with kids) On creating a family identity: family mottos family home evening family…
Today this girl right here turns EIGHTEEN. Yes, I have another child who is just plain OLD. And in Hawaii, because that’s where she is right now, they say “Hau’oli la hanau ie ‘oe” (just in case you didn’t know that, Elle:) How the heck did that whirlwind happen so fast?? She was just…
In February our neighborhood went from this: to this: …in what seemed like one fell-swoop. Here are a few things that happened in between according to my cell phone (and Grace and Elle’s and a little bit of real camera too): Not sure what this is from but I sure love these girls! For FHE…
Claire was certain that Max’s mission call got moved back a week JUST so that he could be with her on her birthday. It was last week (HERE). Let’s talk about how it all went down. Traditional early-morning breakfast before school: (complete with candy bar poster) Everyone looks overjoyed that early in the morning,…
The only problem with this “enjoy” stuff for 2015 and slowing down on blogging is that I get even more far behind on things I want to document so I’m trying to catch up just a little this week. But I guess since we just barely took down our kitchen “heart attack” (back HERE…I…
April feels like it was a whole entire century ago. And going through these pictures makes me miss it already. We spent a whole bunch of time at all kinds of tennis courts. (For more on the exciting end of tennis season click HERE.) Lucy has made up a few different rounds of birthday…
Being the record-keeper I am, and in utter respect for this home we adore, I took lots of pictures of our last holiday season here. Two years ago when we celebrated Christmas I thought it would be our last one here. We had just bought our new home and were preparing to remodel. Little…
We were a tad bit late on our Valentines-prep “heart-attack” this year, but we hunkered down and did it for FHE on Monday. It is one of my very favorite traditions. Everyone writes a heart for everyone else…something that they love about them and then we “heart-attack” the house. It’s a great thing to be…
Meet our new birthday board we’re putting in front of all the girls’ houses this year on their birthdays:Lucky me, I was the first birthday of the year and was surprised find it already done accompanied by a major “heart attack” late at night the night before my birthday. The kids thought it was the…