While Elle was home for the summer, she went ahead and turned 19 years old. Which is nutty in my opinion. I wrote my 19 things I love about that girl back HERE, but here’s what we did to celebrate: We took the girls as well as a few friends and Dave’s brother who was…
I’m sharing links to two resources today. Because like parenting books I always try to have close, it’s always great to have ideas to re-work mothering from time to time. 1) I had the opportunity a couple weeks ago to be interviewed by Jessica Dahlquist a little bit ago. She is a pretty exceptional lady…
Several people have asked about our new wall in the game room so here we go… Through a series of events and inspirations, Dave came up with an idea to turn our game room wall into a giant family moment/inside joke/favorite quote/everything-family-you-can-imagine. My friend had suggested doing a huge long frame with favorite family words…
We started our traditional “Thankful Tree” on the first FHE in November. It’s gradually gaining more and more gratitude leaves each day. Hopefully it will be all filled up like it was last year by Thanksgiving. Oh man I love November. So much to be grateful for! So this Monday we decided to gather to…
In preparation for school to start (on August 3rd of all horribly early days to start school), we tried to get our house situated and organized to ring in the new school year. We packed away all the paraphernalia from our summer hoopla… …into a special little file, and into journals and mostly into our…
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…
I wrote about Christmas Eve (my very favorite part of Christmas) back HERE. But Christmas was pretty great too. Our biggest Christmas gift this year to our kids was that we packed up on Christmas Day and headed out on our last (last of the “lasts” 😉 family trip with Max. But Santa still found…
Speaking of “moments” this Christmas, I have to record one of my very favorites this season. One of my favorite words from the scriptures is “REMEMBER.” This Christmas we got a chance to remember the great kids we visited while we were in Cambodia last year. CICFO, this orphanage we visited there, touched my heart…
As soon as we pulled out the Christmas tree and lit it up for the first time, we all knew it was time: Time for some Christmas stories under that beauty. Yep, still one of my all-time favorite Christmas traditions. Because I don’t know about your neck of the woods, but things haven’t been necessarily…