“His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Evil things did not come into that valley. “I wish I had time to tell you even a few of the tales or one or two […]
Archives for January 2011
Good Things to Come
Sometimes I get stuck. I can’t think of what to write or share on this blog. You wouldn’t think that now that I have reached over 1,000 posts! But I do. I decided to try and get back into a schedule of sorts. And wouldn’t you know as soon as I wrote out the schedule, […]
Multiplying
See these eight beautiful children? They truly bring joy to my life. EVERY SINGLE ONE. They are alike in many ways: brown hair, brown eyes, like to laugh, and cook, and eat, and they each have a desire to do what is right. They are also unique and distinct from each other. One can cheerfully […]
Climbing Mountains
Sometimes we just know we are ready. Ready to face the next big obstacle, to reach out, step by step and climb. When the going gets tough we have to push ourselves, “I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.” Even when we stumble and fall and it hurts. At those […]
Reading List for 2011
Can I tell you how much I LOVE PaperBackSwap? I am currently building our library (again) by accumulating the books on Arthur Henry King’s “Reading List for a Lifetime.” We check our mail only a couple times a week as the mailbox is 15 miles away. Today on the way home from church we opened […]
When 90% okay ISN’T okay
As mentioned earlier my three oldest daughters attended a New Year’s Eve party hosted by our stake. (In our church each congregation is called a ward which is specified by geographic location. The next level up we have stakes that are made up of on average 10 wards) It was held for the youth ages […]
Bringing in the New Year
New Year’s Eve the three oldest girls attended a youth dance/game party hosted by our church. Mr. Ferrero Rocher drove them in and I went and picked them up at about 10:30. (You’ll hear some of my rants about that in another post) We didn’t stay up to ring in the new year (we’re boring). […]
Handmade Christmas Gifts 2010
Each year for Christmas we try to stick to as much of a handmade Christmas as we can. We feel it makes it more special when added thought and effort are put into the gifts. Hershey received this rag quilt made by me. She LOVES soft things! Special Dark received a set of two shields […]