Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We got back from a very fun trip to visit my sister and brother-in-law in Dallas a couple of days ago and I’m finally getting back on the computer. It’s soooo nice to have Colin on Spring Break this [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 21st, 2008
We’re going to Texas today to spend the Easter weekend with my sister and her husband. Yay! We’re going to have tons of fun hanging out and catching up and celebrating. She had her wisdom teeth extracted this week and is still recovering, so I get to help take care of her, too. Poor Phoebe…
In [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 20th, 2008
Colin uploaded more pictures of what we’ve been up to in our gallery! You can see the photos here: http://colinandbethany.com/gallery/album/2008/march/
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 18th, 2008
I spent most of my day helping my mom with what is known by doctors everywhere as “the scramble” to get into a residency program. My wonderful mother happened to be one of the people who didn’t “match” perfectly with a residency program on the first try, so she’s got about two days to figure [...]
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Posted in Religion/Church on Mar 11th, 2008
I read an essay called “I Am a Mother” by Jane Clayson Johnson a few months ago and have been thinking about it off and on ever since. Johnson talks about the nobility inherent in motherhood and the struggle to recognize and declare the value of her role as a mother. I enjoyed the article [...]
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Posted in Religion/Church on Mar 10th, 2008
For Family Home Evening tonight we’re going to talk about Taking Care of our Bodies. Our bodies are sacred gifts that Heavenly Father has given us to learn to take care of and use. In our family we need to be thankful for our bodies (by appreciating all the things we can do with them) [...]
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Posted in Religion/Church on Mar 8th, 2008
Finding this quarter’s plan inspired me to prepare next quarter’s plan for Family Home Evening. This time I asked Colin if he had any topics he thinks our family should have lessons on. He listed Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Gift of the Holy Ghost, Prophets, and Apostasy & Restoration. Then he said “one week a month [...]
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Posted in Religion/Church on Mar 8th, 2008
I thought I’d lost my FHE plan for the quarter when our web page was lost the second time in January. But, while I was looking for another document, I came across it in a folder on my computer. Yay! Obviously, some of our Family Home Evening lessons haven’t followed the plan since it was [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 8th, 2008
It occurs to me that not everyone knows how to pack a diaper bag, especially those who are having babies or babysitting for the first time. There are differences in what you need on hand depends a lot on the age of the child you are caring for and how long your outing/trip will be, [...]
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Posted in Cleaning, Home on Mar 5th, 2008
Okay, I need a plan to recover from my grumpy awakening and here it is:
1. I’m going to go eat something. I’m thinking a bowl of raisin bran will do the trick for now.
2. Say my prayers and read something in the scriptures.
Since writing the above, I decided it would be silly to even try [...]
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