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…
Thoughts
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…
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…
The Miracles Continue and the Tears Begin
There have been so many miracles this week. I could only get in to see one doctor before March after calling to three different offices twice, and when I went to my appointment yesterday she is perfect for my situation. She even spent time working in a neonatal unit and was able to give us…
God’s in the Details
Three weeks ago I had a baby and my body promptly fell apart. With regular postpartum healing, a separated pubic bone, and battling C. Diff I have never felt so worn out in my entire life. My family has been separated during the last three weeks while I was in the hospital first for having…
I Did It!
For the last few months we have been spending a lot of time exclaiming, “I did it!”, “You did it!”, and “We both did it!”. Emily started it and I quickly jumped on her bandwagon. I have been amazed at just how powerful that phrase is. Last night Emily really wanted a certain pickle out of…
Happy
Andrew and I have been talking about the importance of what we put on our walls. We want to put things up that will influence our children and ourselves in positive ways, things that will be imprinted in our minds from seeing them so often. One concept that I really want us to remember is…
Thinking About…
Meet the Mormons. Somehow I didn’t see this movie until last week when we discovered it on Netflix. I love the inspirational stories, especially the last two. The song Glorious has been on repeat here too – what a beautiful message. Starting a commonplace book. I love the idea of filling blank pages with things…
Laundry Corner and Homemade Laundry Detergent
I’ve been trying to fill our home with little, important reminders of how we want to live life. With the laundry corner part of our kitchen, I decided to design two quotes that are both semi-food related as well as instructive. It took a few months to hang them up above the dryer, but I’ve…
My BYU Magazine Moment
I spent my senior year at BYU writing a three unit class fusing together my major and minor, Technology and Engineering Education and Music (I focused on sound recording), then teaching my curriculum during student teaching. It was a lot of work and I probably would have given up a few times if Andrew hadn’t…