Thursday, October 23, 2014

My Mormon Conversion by Kathryn Landis

I'm pretty excited to share the story of how my friend Kathryn Landis came to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  I met Katie through her now-husband.  She was well on her...
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Sunday, October 19, 2014

Feast upon the words of Christ

We're just having a little fun over here.  It was Linger Longer after church today, and Steve decided to make a Book of Mormon cake...from scratch.  He did pretty great.  But he's...
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Monday, October 13, 2014

Columbus Day Crafts

Columbus Day 2014 Since our children get Columbus Day off of from school each year (because of teacher in-service) we get to spend the day together as a family, crafting and playing with friends. In...
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Thursday, October 9, 2014

General Conference Teaching Ideas

Just a friendly reminder that you can find all sorts of tips for teaching General Conference to your family right here on my blog and by reading the article that I wrote recently for LDS.org called...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Why Memorize scriptures with children?

These are the days. They are good days, but they are busy days.  I'm sure I'll blink and they'll be over, which is why I am just taking it all in...and just hanging on for the ride. It's...
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Monday, October 6, 2014

Lest by any means...

Last week, someone told me that they'd never want to post a picture of their family watching #LDSConf, because the kids always make such a mess.  So I thought I'd ease your worries.  If...
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Saturday, October 4, 2014

Best Free General Conference Packet for Kids

And yes, I'm qualified to make that statement.... now has a sequel! We've been using the original one for forever and a day, and I finally just realized there's a second version, which you can...
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Friday, October 3, 2014

General Conference: Game On

Athletes of various sports have things they do to prepare themselves for big sporting events. Here are 10 simple things you can do to get your General Conference Zen On: 1.  Be Calm:  Yeah,...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Don't feed them after midnight. Don't get them wet...

My sister-in-law Emmalee (who makes the Fantasy General Conference brackets every year) said recently that she wished everyone got as excited about General Conference as people do about the Super...
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