Finding The Good
Today I am sharing something pretty personal. The full story is over at Deseret News today and is sponsored by BonCom because they are trying to bring awareness to the issue of teenage anxiety. I hope that this helps someone out there. There was a period of about eight years in my life that I constantly experienced pain in my… Read More
My kidlets finally are going back in school. You know how I am normally super sentimental about things like that? And how I hate my kids to grow up? And how I hate saying goodbye? Well, not today. For some reason this year, I feel just fine about my kidlets in school. We had a long summer and I’m one… Read More
As you know if you’ve been following me on Instagram or Facebook, we are in the middle of a huge kitchen remodel that my husband and I are doing almost completely ourselves (except for 1 or 2 parts). Talk about a DIY project! I’m not really sure what it is about My Man and I that makes us want to… Read More
I’m an expert at not being perfect. I’ve tried to be perfect in different areas of my life, and I always fail. Duh. Why, why, why do we expect perfection and then feel like losers when we fail at this unattainable trait? Now this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t work hard, or try our best. But we must accept our mistakes… Read More
Sweet Tween got a jaw expander today. It’s an annoying metal thing in her mouth. In 3 weeks (just in time for her birthday) she’ll get her braces and wear both together for a year or more. She’s sputtering like Daffy Duck now and finding food hard to chew. She informed me that her LIFE IS OVER. Little does she… Read More
So crazy moving mama came out today. We got everything out of our old house and moved to our new one yesterday. (Which by the way, we love our new little abode. It’s darling!) We worked from sun up to sun down, and then some more. We cleaned and packed and loaded. All during this major moving day, Baby Girl… Read More
Having to move again is sucking the creativity right out of me! It’s hard to be creative and write something inspiring when the house is in disarray and boxes are everywhere. It’s hard to be creative when we are eating off paper plates every night and having pizza for the 3rd time this week. It’s hard to be creative when… Read More
Life never goes the way you plan. This has got to be the #1 theme of my life’s story. No matter how much I plan, prepare, and look forward to certain things in life–it never goes that way. Sometimes my life goes better. Sometimes my life gets harder . . . and then eventually works out okay. But it never… Read More
Let me tell you why we need each other through this little story: My Park Days Story Before I moved to the West this past summer, I had lived in the South for 10 years. I lived in the land of humidity, southern accents, hills carpeted with trees, grits, and people sweet as honey. One day, when Sweet Tween was… Read More
Baby Girl lied to me yesterday. Okay, it was more like a fib (it seems to harsh to say that a sweet 5 year old is a liar). We were having scrambled eggs for breakfast, something Baby Girl detests. She’ll plug her nose and say, “Ewww! They stink!”. But I make her at least eat some eggs, because I… Read More
This morning I had a parenting dilemma. Not a big deal, but a dilemma still. So we had a crazy-as-usual morning. Breakfast, scriptures, piano practicing, lunch-making are usually on the to-do list before 8:00 a.m. I did not have any time to get dressed, so I actually drove my kidlets to school in my pajamas (which for me are a… Read More
My husband and I are teaching our kidlets to snow ski. A very daunting task, I’m afraid. But we both love skiing, so we are determined to eventually have fun with our children on the slopes–even if it means hating each other first. We don’t have enough extra cash flow to pay for lessons (though I think that would be… Read More