My youngest is pre-school age, and in the fall, I’m likely to have some time to myself for the first time in 13 years. I’ve been considering some ways I might pick up some freelance of part-time/at home work, just to make some extra pocket money. Teach piano lessons? Start a neighborhood pre-school? Do some [...]

Never mind that it’s been raining here for the last 20 days straight, I’m being deluged with the small and tormenting vicissitudes of life, and I’m getting ready to give up and let myself drown at the bottom of the laundry pile.

I’ve been reading up a storm around here. Since it’s a rainy Saturday morning here, let’s play a game. From the books I’ve been reading the last little bit, I went on a bit of an excursion. Which books do the following quotations come from? I’ll post all the answers tonight before I go to [...]

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I need some help.

There are people in various places in my life with mental illnesses. There are a also couple of people I love with autistic children, some with ADHD, some others with various developmental delays. So it was with keen interest that I read the following article. Then, only a day later, I read this. A quick [...]

Today I’m feeling the love of the Lord. A broad smile greeted me this morning as I woke to the sound of my toddler running down the hall toward my bedroom for a morning hug. I know he Lord has promised, “He who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious” (D&C 78:19), and [...]

Some years ago, the drama of neighborhood relationships played out in a very public place - Mother’s Day Sacrament meeting.

There have been times in my life when the Spirit spoke to me in powerful and audible tones. I actually heard a voice once tell me to “GO DOWNSTAIRS” when my two year old started a fire in our basement a few years ago. I have had strong and specific impressions about exact choices to [...]

I’ve attended some doozie Enrichment meetings in my time. And some pretty ‘out-there’ Homemaking meetings before that. I’ve watched magicians, painted little bunnies, watched people teach me how to cook, clean, budget, crochet, sew, can, change the oil, change a filter, change a $20. I watched a speaker once do a ’strip-tease’ as some warped [...]

Ten years ago, we bought a white car. It was used, but not ‘beat-up’, and we’ve had it ever since. Last month, our trusty van had it’s 20th in a long series of car problems, and we delivered it up to car heaven.
We were on the hunt for a new car.

Alright, I’m completely hijacking this blog to set up my own personal advice council. I’ll admit that I’m completely lazy, and in February, the Christmas wreath was still on the front door:

One day, in late February, we noticed some twigs and straw stuck in the wreath. Hmmmm, strange, how’d that get there? Oh, wait…It’s a [...]

Never before have I imagined in great detail the events as unfolded to me by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland last Sunday afternoon in the last session of General Conference.

If you’re surfing around looking for something uplifting, edifying, inspirational, and challenging, get off the computer and go watch General Conference! We can talk about it later. Oh, and we will.

I am a runner. I get up to run every morning at 5:30 with my faithful friend. We pound out the steps in the inky blue blackness, watching the sky start to lighten over the eastern mountains. During the summer, the suns rays will shoot over the mountain top toward the western valley, but we [...]