Or Elle, as we know and love her here at home…it was so fun to have her HOME for the big day. I wrote about what I love about her back HERE, but here’s what we did to celebrate: Lucy, true to form, was very on top of the prep work, namely making sure she…
I am loving the Come Follow Me lessons we study each week more than ever lately. There is so much to glean from the scriptures, and I feel like you learn even more when you write things down. So here I am, with a thought from three weeks ago. Ha! But really, I’ve been thinking…
Goodness, gracious I have a lot to catch up on. We’ve been working on some good things around here, and I have so much to say. But for today I figured I better get my act together and at least document the first day of school… …online school that started back on Wednesday. (Yep, we’re…
Let’s take a minute to go back to February for record’s sake. It seems crazy to me that this was only a couple months ago! But there we were, Claire and some cousins went to watch other cousins compete in the state cheer competition: (They did awesome, so proud of them!) We gathered with family…
A few weeks ago I was sitting in the kitchen trying to help Lucy come up with an online writing class she would enjoy. Claire and Grace were both signing up for some classes and I knew Lucy needed something to keep her going too. And when I came across this class by Jennifer Trafton…
To me, there is so much beauty in religion: people striving to connect with God. I think it is interesting that once we find a religion that we cherish and love, we are more apt to close out the others. I think mostly we just get comfortable. But how sad that is to miss out…
Traditions are like glue holding a family together even after they aren’t really “together” any more. And I love things like that more than ever these days since so many of my kids aren’t snuggled up with me “together” here right now. One tradition I LOVE is our Thanksgiving tradition: our “Thankful Tree.” Our Thankful…
I came across a picture of this painting a little while back and I instantly fell in love with it. Because to me, it tells a story of family dinner: It is by J. Kirk Richards and it is called “Entertained Angels,” inspired by the verse in Hebrews 13:1-3 where it says “Let brotherly love…
Gosh, I have been going through pictures of this birthday girl and missing her so much this morning: the morning that marks her TWENTY-FIRST birthday! Oh boy, if we had known how easy and kind and good this girl would be when we were jolted out of our seats twenty-one years ago when we found…