Posted in Self Improvement on Apr 21st, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Last week the Ponytail Challenge was to smell good, and I do! It’s challenging for me to find yummy-smelling things that don’t make my eyes itchy and my nose stuffy (allergies, I think), and it’s tough to smell good [...]
Posted in Self Improvement on Apr 21st, 2008
Three weeks into practicing my healthy living goals, and I’ve lost 10 pounds! I didn’t make any weight loss goals because the number on the scale isn’t something I could control, but what a nice side-effect! My clothes fit a little more loosely, I’ve been happier, and I have more energy than before. Perhaps more [...]
Posted in Holidays on Apr 20th, 2008
Although I like to conserve energy and other resources, I admit I’ve never “celebrated” Earth Day. I remember hearing something about it in elementary school one year, and I think I’ve heard media references to it a couple of times, but I’ve never made a special effort to join the party. While I feel a [...]
Posted in Family Home Evening on Apr 20th, 2008
Tomorrow, according to my Q2 FHE Plan, we’re doing an FHE on Repentance. Here’s the results of my online research and my own brainstorming of FHE lesson ideas on this topic:
Sharing Time ideas on Repentance
and more Sharing Time ideas on Repentance
Coloring picture Jonah Repents
Roller-box story about a boy repenting for taking some toys
Roll-play the following [...]
Posted in Self Improvement on Apr 17th, 2008
In college I took a class where we talked about how our bodies and minds are connected. Sounds obvious, right? Your mind tells your body what to do, and it does it. Your body sends signals to your mind to tell it what’s going on in the world and your mind makes decisions about how [...]
Ever get distracted? This morning I was planning for this week’s home “preschool” and started looking for some supplies for a 5 Senses activity that requires paper bags. I knew my paper bags were in a box somewhere in our “storage room,” so I went on a hunt for them. I knew they were in [...]
Posted in Food on Apr 15th, 2008
There have been multiple times since I’ve been married when we’ve had to primarily live off of our stored food supply. As a wedding present, someone (I’m sorry to say I don’t remember who) gave us the awesome gift of one month’s basic food storage. Included were things like cans of wheat, rice, macaroni noodles, [...]
Posted in Cooking, Food, Things I Like on Apr 14th, 2008
Does anyone but me struggle with knowing what the names on cuts of meat mean? I bought a roast on sale the other day labeled “USDA Choice Chuck Beef English Roast.” What in the world….? I learned a while back that “Choice” is a United States Department of Agriculture grade of meat determined by how [...]
Posted in Self Improvement on Apr 12th, 2008
Today is my week-mark for the Ponytail Challenge I mentioned in an earlier post. I went seven whole days (in a row) with no ponytails!!! Okay, I did wear a ponytail while working out, but it came out immediately afterward. I did a lot of headbands, and a couple of braids, and a couple of [...]
Posted in Things I Like on Apr 11th, 2008
I like all the seasons, but I usually seem to like the one I’m in best until the very end of the season. Right now I like Spring.
It rains in the Spring. I like rain because it smells good. It makes everything feel clean and new. It gives variety to my life. I even like [...]
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