Since having Maeli 6 weeks ago I’ve been frequently asked what it’s like to have 3 kids. This was my day today- Woke up to get Sam ready for school. Laid out all his clothes and then went to get myself ready. Came back 10 minutes later to find Sam still with no pants on …
The Pain of Sin
One of my friends posted this article on Facebook today. I didn’t get through reading all of it because as I got through the first few sections I had so many thoughts flooding my mind that I needed to stop reading and finish my own pondering. In particular this is what she said that really …
Mooooother I love you, Moooooother I doooo
Today is Mother’s Day and across the world Primary children will be getting up in sacrament meeting to sing a song to their mother’s in honor of the day. In our family we have a joke about my mom’s least favorite Mother’s Day Primary Song – Mother, I Love You. If you’ve never heard this …
The Miracle of the Cody Muffins
Today my brother Cody enters the Missionary Training Center for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to begin his two year mission preaching the gospel in Spanish to the people in the area of Morristown, New Jersey. I am so proud of him. In the picture above you’ll see over 80 muffins that …
Enos, and the request of a mother
Note: I wrote the outline for this back in June, when April’s conference talk was obviously much more on my mind. However, finishing off this post apparently took a backseat for awhile and I only just re-discovered the draft. Please accept my apologies for being so delayed in posting this. In April’s General Conference President …
I Want to Have Been a Missionary… Then
So if you were listening to General Conference this morning you heard a most amazing announcement. *Spoiler alert! If you haven’t listened to this morning’s session you might want to hear this from the prophet before you hear it from me 🙂 * They changed the eligible missionary ages for young men from 19 to 18 …
The Flag in Our Yard
Dear Sam & Daniel, Today there’s a flag in our yard that isn’t there most days. Do you know why? Our neighborhood’s Boy Scout troop has a fundraiser every year where they will display a flag in our yard to commemorate special days. But what makes today special? What is different about today, Tuesday, September …
The Old Testament vs The Book of Mormon
About a year ago I found a list of books on Facebook. There were 100 books in the list and it had some attention catching phrase like “The BBC thinks you’ll only have read 4 of these books”. I consider myself fairly well read, or at least someone who loves to read, so I decided …
The Career of Motherhood
On Wednesday Hilary Rosen, a Democratic strategist, made a comment on CNN about Ann Romney saying that she “has actually never worked a day in her life,” referring to the fact that Ann has spent her adult life as a stay-at-home mom rather than as an employee of another corporation. While the Obama campaign has …
Easter Thoughts
Over the last few days I’ve been reading in our New Testament reader to Sam about the last week of our Savior’s life, His atonement and resurrection. It has given me a chance to ponder on these events for myself and think again about what Christ’s life means to me. I had one quick thought …
Thoughts from General Conference
I can’t believe that another General Conference has once again come and gone. The weekend went by far too quickly, particularly since I spent most of it sick and with a sick baby. I’m still fighting through the symptoms (although I think they’re allergy related now) and my baby still has a lot of congestion …
Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice
This weekend is one of my favorite holidays – General Conference. For those of you who aren’t members of my faith let me give you a little bit of background on what this is. We believe that our religion is a restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ during his ministry. That church …