Adventures in Babysitting My Own Kids, 24 hours a day, forever
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2009
I’m singing the “I don’t know what to be for Halloween” blues right now. I’ve got the kids figured out, and Colin has been working on his very creative and unusual costume for months now. I, however, have no idea what to be. Halloween used to be in my top three holidays (behind Christmas and [...]
Posted in Religion/Church on Apr 20th, 2007
My aunt emailed me yesterday saying that she was searching for ideas for Relief Society and found my blog! It's always neat to get in touch with someone in an unexpected way. She discovered in her reading that I'm in Young Women now. She's doing a project for her Stake's Young Women Camp where after Sacrament Meeting they spend [...]
Posted in Reviews, Things I Like on Mar 29th, 2007
Another book you should all read is Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray. Now, I'm not saying this book will solve all your problems or that everything in it is right on, but I do think there are a lot of valuable concepts Gray teaches and teaches well. The premise [...]
Posted in Religion/Church, Young Women on Mar 24th, 2007
Tonight I went to the LDS General Young Women Meeting. I was surprised that they had neither a recitation of the scripture (D&C 121:45) or anyone singing the song (Dearest Children, God is Near You) they had asked us to memorize for the meeting. I attended the live broadcast at our local Stake Center, but many [...]
Posted in Religion/Church, Young Women on Mar 7th, 2007
At our Beehives activity tonight we were working on learning about the value "Individual Worth." We read some scriptures on gifts and talents and then each wrote our name at the top of a piece of paper. We then circulated the papers around the room and everyone wrote something nice on each paper about the [...]
Posted in Home, Religion/Church, Young Women on Feb 11th, 2007
This morning all four of us are sick. I have a sore throat, Colin has a big sinus headache, Degen and Maggie have runny noses. Maggie seems to be teething, too, and she had a bout of inconsolable crying today that got me to call my mom to find out whether I should take her [...]