Beyond Our Expectations
These days with our young children will soon be gone forever, just a wispy memory. … Read More Beyond Our Expectations
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Category: Children
Lies and Traps
I have discovered a wonderful thing. When I am at my lowest, I read scriptures, or recite (Out Loud) passages I have memorized and the devil must flee! … Read More Lies and Traps
The Unlikely Nurse
Every 10 minutes, he came into our bedroom, put his hand on my forehead, and asked, “Mom, how are you feeling? Can I bring you something?” … Read More The Unlikely Nurse
On Loving A Child
I promised myself when I brought our little blue bundle
home from the hospital, that he would never be “the interruption” in my life…… Read More On Loving A Child
Magical Memories
With all of the flurry of activity during the busy holidays, I would never be able to do one fraction of the fun things we do if I had not planned ahead.… Read More Magical Memories
Good Old Fashioned Hard Work
We get water in the basement every time a flash flood comes. So I drew out a sketch, and today Mom and I dug out canals and put in drainage pipes to get the rain water to flow out to the alley instead of into our basement.
… Read More Good Old Fashioned Hard Work
Cooks Who Care: A Monthly Service Project
The founder called on her fellow cooking friends online to make and send home-baked goodies to our troops overseas once a month. At least 1,000 blogger/bakers like me make treats and ship them to deployed military persons each month.… Read More Cooks Who Care: A Monthly Service Project
Snowy Day Literature
Get out the mittens, scarves, and extra socks. Put a pot of milk on the stove, for the neighborhood children SHALL come and we will have a Snow Party! … Read More Snowy Day Literature
Do Hard Things
This year, we talked many times about how to use appropriate scriptures in the proper way to help guide others, if they are open to this. How humbling, and how exciting to know that one’s children are able to do so at a young age!… Read More Do Hard Things
Recitations as in Days of Old
Children are excellent memorizers. They also love poems and fun quotes. We began to have little one on one sessions with each child during free time, and I was amazed at the ease in which poems were memorized and recited perfectly within days of teaching/practicing.… Read More Recitations as in Days of Old
