San Francisco Getaway: Day 2

San Francisco Getaway: Day 2

We spent most of our second day in San Francisco with my friend Hilary from Pulling Curls and her husband. Our husbands played in a brass quintet in college! After eating our omelets and leisurely getting ourselves showered and ready, we took the CalTrain down to Santa Clara where Hilary picked us up and took…

Blessings: Version 2006

Blessings: Version 2006

Every year at Christmas time, as I am trying to “balance the budget,” I begin to reflect on the many blessings we have received in the past year. It never fails that I can see that the windows of heaven have truly been pouring down upon us due to our commitment to paying tithing. In…

The parable of the glasses

The parable of the glasses

My oldest daughter had an eye appointment last week and it turns out she really needed glasses. Her eyes are almost as bad as her dad’s already, and well…she has blind me for a mother. She wasn’t so excited about the prospect of getting glasses until she saw the box of children’s frames that she…

Blessings

Blessings

I have a lot of great stories in my life “history” that have to do with the blessings that come from paying tithing. Seriously, it’s been true for me that when I pay it money literally shows up from nowhere. And it’s happening again, although this time is less obvious than many of the other…

Remembering 9-11

Remembering 9-11

Today in Church we talked about self-reliance and food storage and emergency preparedness. It was really good for me, because for the last several months, and especially after Katrina, I have been wanting to do better at having my family be prepared. So last Sunday I ordered some food from the Cannery…used my scrap budget….

My piece on Katrina

My piece on Katrina

A couple days after Katrina hit, we had a pretty big Monsoon here. (Actually, it didn’t seem overly large to me, but it made national news, and in the wake of Katrina it had to be big news to make national news…maybe everyone was just going a little crazy over weather stories…who knows?) Anyway, when…