Giving is the BEST. I remember one Christmas years ago when I made a photo quilt for my parents. It took me hours upon hours with babies crawling over me to make that thing and my heart was beating so hard when I finally had the opportunity to hand over that wrapped up treasure. They…
I love how kids seem to have so many fewer inhibitions than adults do in so many ways. When we asked our Activity Day girls if they had any service ideas this month they perked up with the idea of singing at a rest home. So we set it up and they were pleased as…
We just had the best discussion as a family for Family Home Evening. Dave gathered us to watch part of the “worldwide devotional for youth” from last week, and the room filled up with so much love and beauty as we had some deep discussions about life, and how we are living it. How social…
I have had a hole in my heart thinking about what happened in Las Vegas. So much sadness, so many questions unanswered, so many families left in sorrow and loss. When something like this happens the helplessness is so very tangible. I wish time could be reversed and something in the chain of events could…
Oh my word, so much to say about Christmas but until I sort it all out, let’s talk about Christmas lights. Because for some reason visiting the temple lights this year filled me up like never before. Not sure if it was because we hit it at the PERFECT time of evening when…
Growing up we had a “major” and a “minor” for each school year just like they do in college. My parents would choose what they were…whether it was education or music or service or one year it was even Spanish (I think that was the year we went and lived in Mexico for the summer)….
We took the tram up to the tippy top of the mountains. Ok, not the very tippy top because sure, there are taller mountains…the Grand Teton to name one right next to us, but boy we sure felt like we were on the top of the world. …and we relished in that beauty. (That is…
**post-edit note…I just put new links in at the bottom of this post. We had such a good lesson in church on Sunday in the wake of the awful things that happened last week. The inspired teacher read a portion of this post here and it touched me more than I can say. It is…
So, when we went into the big city for our Labor Day get-away, I never told about our adventures on the light rail. And since it further illustrates my desire to make sure our kids see life from a different perspective (see this post), here you go: I was pleased as punch to get our…