When I was a little girl my mom taught us a few scriptures to music. They are the only scriptures I still have memorized. Around the time Emily was a year old I decided I wanted to make learning scriptures to music a priority while my children are young so that they have a large…
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The Joy of Sleepless Service
Last night I was up three times with Emily and countless times with Nathan. Someone set the alarm on our clock downstairs and it went off at midnight, which had me running blindly without my glasses with Nathan in my arms, yanking at chords until the noise stopped in hopes that it wouldn’t wake up…
Four Months Old
Dear Nathan, You have grown up so much this last month; it feels like you jumped from a newborn to a four month old overnight. You have rolled over twice from your tummy to your back! You can lift your head up really high during tummy time (although you still prefer to just leave your…
Fire Station Tour
I set up a tour of the fire station a few weeks ago and yesterday was the day! We got all ready and met some of our friends to walk over. The fire fighters were incredible with our large group of 2-4 year olds. They showed their one-month old firetruck that has been to three…
Snow Globe
This morning we woke up to rain. While we were making breakfast the rain suddenly turned into snow. We spent the day in a snowglobe of huge, fluffy snowflakes. I kept exclaiming, “Emily! Look out the window! Check out that snow! Those are huge snowflakes!” She told me after a couple of my suggestions while…
Round Three
Last week I started having c. diff symptoms. I went to the doctors on Wednesday and she sent me to an Infectious Disease doctor on Friday for c. diff round three. Wednesday I felt like I got hit by a truck. I used all the swear words in my vocabulary while venting with my mom…
Valentines 2016
I’m trying really hard to use holidays as an opportunity to create memories, teach, and draw our family together. This is a huge step forward to how I’ve felt about them a year ago – a reason to store more stuff to pull out for a few weeks and then have to clean it all…
The Family that Grips Together, Sticks Together
Friday afternoon Andrew came home and told us about the adjusted game plan for the grant he is working on. It included making lots of soft robots so he could become more of an expert and know how to help teachers avoid common pitfalls so that their students can be successful and build their confidence….