Last night, KitKat asked me to write down 4 words to describe her. Then today, I read over at MamaKat’s that one of her writer’s workshop prompts for the day was this:Ask a loved one to use 6 descriptive words to describe you and report your findings. How well do they know you? So I…
{BELIEVE DREAM IMAGINE}
Believe….Hope….Faith….Love…..At McDonalds? We all needed to get out of the house tonight, so we headed to McD’s for dinner. We rarely go to McDonalds….a fact that became very apparent once we walked inside and looked around. The reataurant near our house has been completely renovated. It actually felt nice. And clean. And cute. They had…
20 Essential Ideas to Help Create a Better Family — Part 4 of 4
5 Ideas to Help you Teach Correct Principles Here is the last installment in my notes from Randall Wright’s class at Education Week this August. For the first three days, click 1, 2, and 3. President David O McKay said, “No greater responsibility can rest upon any man, than to be a teacher of God’s…
Was it the turkey?
I don’t know if it was the turkey or the CRAB that my kids ate last night, or simply the late night and another day off school, but the kids woke up in crabby moods today. Reese was the first to wake me up–at 3:04am–because of a sore throat. I checked her throat….Surprise! Another red,…
20 Essential Ideas to Help Create a Better Family–Part 3 of 4
Day 3–5 Ideas to Help You Create a Gospel-centered Home The third day of Randall Wright’s lecture on creating a better/stronger family was probably my favorite. He based his model of a good, successful home on the temple (how it looks and how it functions). Think about it! Even if you’re a member of another…
20 Essential Ideas to Help Create a Better Family — Part 2 of 4
This is the second part in a 4-part series on creating a stronger family, from Randall Wright’s Education Week class at BYU–August 2008. A few of these tips are focused more on older children (teen/pre-teen) but I can testify that it is much smarter to start thinking about these things earlier rather than later. The…
Divided by five
I don’t know why, but I felt like writing this morning, and I grabbed a pen and notebook and wrote this down. As a mother of five kids, I am a rarity nowadays, and I admit I can be somewhat of a spectacle. It used to be that whenever I left the house with all…
20 Essential Ideas to Help Create a Better Family–Part 1 of 4
When I came back from Education Week in August, many of my friends asked me to share some things that I’d learned in all of the classes that I attended. Well, school started the week that I got back, life took over, and I never shared any of the great insights that I gathered. Last…
Emergencies, recalled
As I was driving to the doctor’s office this morning, I was thinking about the WEEK that we’ve had at our house. It started last Monday with Reese’s 2nd degree burn, then progressed to Twizzler’s strep on Wednesday, Reese’s strep and ear infection on Thursday, my Cough (with a capital C) over the weekend, and…
Done
That’s what’s going through my head tonight. I’m done. I’m done with the Primary Sacrament Meeting presentation (the kids did an AMAZING job–everything was perfect!–we even ended on time!). I’m done with today’s Sharing Time….which is my last for a while. For those of you who haven’t heard, I was released as the Primary President….