It’s that time of year when all over the world, Mission Leaders (formerly called Mission Presidents) for our church make a giant switch. The new Mission Leaders are trained and make their way to wherever they are assigned to take the places of those who have served for three years. What are “mission leaders,” you…
I want to back up in honor of International Women’s Day. Because even though that day is already in our wake and I neglected to post about it, I sure carried around some heavy appreciation for strong women. I was thinking about all the strong women who make the world go around. And my pondering…
Of all the things going on over Thanksgiving break, this part was my very favorite. Elle and Carson were sealed for Time and All Eternity at the temple. I loved sitting in that temple with all those people I love…family and extended family, sunlight sparking through those towering windows, Elle and Carson calm, happy, in…
Tomorrow hopefully I’ll get to post about Elle and Carson’s sealing at the temple (loved it so much). But for today let’s talk about Lighting the World (in continuation from the last post and our fav. Christmas tradition…something else I love so much). And how Lucy and her choir sure did just that at their…
Loved “turning the hearts” (Malachi 4:6) this weekend. First turning hearts “to the children” because my niece Emmeline came to town. Oh my goodness, she and Lucy are one of my favorite duos and Em got here just in time for Lucy’s choir performance “Night at the Opera” fundraiser at the school. I picked her…
The other day my friend told me how she finally put in the effort to learn how to solve a Rubik’s cube this summer. It was something she had always wanted to do, especially since she was so intrigued that her boys could do it so quickly, but she had never stopped for long enough…
Years ago Dave and I decided (inspired by an idea from Dave’s brother), that we wanted to create an opportunity for our kids to do some sort of experience/internship away from home the summer after their junior year. In our opinion, the more different people we can gather to teach our kids, the better. And…
Promoting Resilience in teens Claire had an unintentional lesson in resilience a couple weeks ago, and I want to share it because once again, I keep being taught that so many of the things we try to teach can only be learned if we let go. Covid has hit the volleyball world, just like everything…
It was strange to have only one child home for Mother’s Day. I was with that one child last year as well, but back then we were fully enveloped in a hospital, just the two of us in the depths of a COVID-stricken world (no one else could even visit) as she recovered from her…