The visiting teaching message for March is The Attributes of Jesus Christ: Long-suffering and Patient. Apropos of my current trials, it was a message that was timely for me. I really loved President Uchtdorf’s entire quote on patience, but just the one snippet really made me stop and think. “Patience is not simply enduring; it…
A couple days before Christmas, I was awoken by my phone ringing. Yeah, it was 9:30 in the morning and I was still sound asleep, but it was Christmas break and I was really tired. I don’t know about you, but I use my vacations for sleeping as much as possible. Anyway, I saw it…
Every once in a while you have an experience that re-teaches you just what it means to have faith. At least, it happens that way for me. I suppose that I often coast along in my life, going about my business and forgetting to rely on the Lord, and then something happens that wakes me…
Another Sunday, here and gone. I’m so glad I started doing these Sunday photos, even though Sundays are often just as crazy as any other day of the week. Which is why I didn’t manage to get today’s photo until bedtime. Sup #swag is courtesy Chloe, I think. All I know is that I didn’t…
As a blogging-type person, the very idea of disconnecting from the internet for a while can be a little scary. I always have a list a mile long of things I should be doing: tweaking blog design, answering emails (for my real life and real job as well as for my blog life), replying to…
This summer, The Maestro and I will be celebrating not one, but THREE momentous occasions. In June, we will celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary. That’s the most important. But we both have summer birthdays, too, and this year we are both turning “The Big 4-0.” (I don’t really know what’s up with that, by the…
I’ve mentioned more than oncewhat an all or nothing personality I have. I’m either perfect at everything or completely apathetic. I’m either dressed up quite nicely or in my pajamas. I either eat 100% healthfully or I eat like complete crap. My house is either perfectly clean or an absolute wreck. And I have been…
When TLC Book Tours contacted me to review The Beauty Experiment by Phoebe Baker Hyde, I was intrigued by the request that I not write a standard review of the book. I was instead asked to conduct my own beauty experiment and report on my experience. Still, before I tell you about my personal beauty…
…we are home. We took an EPIC vacation for the last 26 days. That is nearly a month, people. We camped, we cruised, we swam, we ate, we national parked, we historical sited, and we drove and drove and drove. Most importantly, we spent a lot of time together and with extended family and it…
Yesterday, Sophia and I were out shopping when she told me that the shoes she was wearing hurt her feet. “Are they too small?” I asked. “No. They just pinch my toes. But I can handle it. I’m a big girl!” And then it hit me–I am not a mom of littles anymore. And as…
Last ditch effort to revive the dead phone. Phone in a baggie full of uncooked rice and placed in oven with the light on. It didn’t work, though the phone is still in the rice bag and now on the radiator. The bag is also full of hope. It all happened on Ash Wednesday. The…
The world really is black and white in winter here. As proof, this picture is in color. The sky is usually white, the ground is white, and nearly everything else is black or grey. My red car almost seems out of place, like a colorized element in a black & white photograph. The spring is…