Today was our ward’s fast and testimony meeting. As I was standing bouncing our baby during the sacrament I decided that I would like to get up and bear my testimony today. However, before the sacrament ended I had to take that baby out to feed him and the line on the stand never dwindled […]
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Today in Relief Society we had a lesson on Eternal Marriage. I love talking about this topic in the church because marriage is something that I think is often misconstrued in the media and the world. Our marriage relationships are of utmost importance and maintaining them is by far one of the most important things […]
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So I’m thinking of starting a project for a Christmas present for Daniel. I want to make him a quiet book for church. I’m thinking though to keep the project a little bit easier I would see if anyone else wanted to do it with me. If you’re interested here’s how I’m thinking it would […]
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My dad is a CPA, as such he taught me early on the importance of tracking your spending and reconciling all of your credit card statements etc. He and my mom always used Quicken to track all of their spending. I remember every month when my mom would get have to go through and make […]
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So I got this idea when I used to follow the $5 dinner blog. Every so often I have what I call “Leftover Awareness Month” (she calls it “Pantry Challenge”). Basically the idea is for a month (although sometimes just a week) I try to eat only what we have in the house and go […]
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Last night we had a little baby shower for my niece (yes, somehow I’m old enough to have a niece old enough to be a mom, weird huh?). While we were there I let her in on the secret of Amazon Mom. One of my sisters-in-law was so sad that I hadn’t told her about this […]
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So I’ve been meaning for a long time to write posts about things that I use in my life to make it easier/cheaper/healthier or in any way better. I finally have come up with a list of things to write about that’s so long that I could have a weekly post for 3 months before […]
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I just finished listening to The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. If you haven’t read it before and you’re someone who enjoys reading I highly recommend it. It’s an interesting story about a young man who grew up in Afghanistan when the Soviet Union invaded and took control of the country. He flees with his […]
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Having a toddler who can speak very well teaches you a lot of things about yourself that you might not have noticed otherwise. Sam has recently brought to my attention, through the things he prays about, that my prayers of late have become rather stale. Not intentionally so, but each night my prayers seem to […]
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I thought this had been posted already but apparently not. Well, better late than never! This last week Eric and I got to speak in our ward. Mostly I was excited to have a chance to really introduce our family to the ward since we’re still fairly new. Unfortunately last week was a pretty busy […]
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Our neighborhood has a recipe group that meets once a month to exchange recipes and visit. They come up with a theme and then anyone who wants to participate makes a dish that matches that theme and brings some to sample as well as the recipe. The theme this month was breakfast foods and I […]
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As the Christmas season rolled around last year I found myself trying to think of something that I could make or get for friends and family that would be both meaningful and relatively inexpensive. I decided I didn’t want to stress over making a treat as I lack culinary genius. As I thought through some […]
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I’m giving a presentation tonight in Relief Society about how we can use technology to enhance our studies of the scriptures. While preparing for this I came across a TON of awesome resources that I think could benefit anyone trying to get more out of their scripture study, or even just finding time to do […]
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With all the craziness of traveling and being sick this month I once again missed the chance to go see my visiting teachers. Oops. Luckily, the end of the month isn’t until tomorrow so I have one last shot to get in touch with my sisters before it’s July. So, since this coincides with a […]
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There is a young woman in my home stake who asked me for some help with her personal progress. Specifically she wanted help with the project in Divine Nature #2 – As a young woman you are blessed with divine feminine qualities. Increase your understanding of and appreciation for womanhood. Read Proverbs 31:10–31 and two […]
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If you’re like me then you have no doubt run into problems with remembering to pay your tithing when money comes in. It’s not that I don’t like paying tithing, or that I’m being grudging about it, I’m just not used to having to write checks. Tithing is pretty much the only check I write […]
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Unfortunately I wasn’t able to go visit one of the sisters I visit teach this month because she got strep 🙁 But I promised her that I would at least email her the lesson and some thoughts if I couldn’t get to visit her this month. I figured so long as I was doing it […]
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In Relief Society we were talking about the Creation on Sunday. I had a thought that I wanted to share. At the end of each day God surveys his works and declares them good. I think that’s a good pattern for how we should live our days. At the end of the day we should […]
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Some people come into your life for a little while and leave having changed it forever. Some people come and go without leaving much of a mark. Some people come and go, and reappear in the most unlikely places. You never know what kind of effect a person will have on your life. Such is […]
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I already posted my report on my resolutions from last year but I haven’t yet posted my new resolutions for 2010! I want to make these more quantifiable than last year’s goals because I felt so good about being able to check those ones off, and the more abstract goals just made me feel sad […]
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