Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Updating Your Family Media Rules

Do you have a family media plan?  It's a set of guidelines that your family follows to determine how media will be used in your home.  During the summertime, as a family, we sat down...
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Monday, January 26, 2015

...to be a wonderful Father.

I went to a baby shower over the weekend for my friend, who is having a baby boy. Scarlett wrote the following card for the expected little boy: I love that her "wish" for the baby is...
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Sunday, January 25, 2015

For a Really Bad Day

My sister Dawn gave me this "unbirthday" gift with the instruction to only open it on a really "bad day". Just having it sitting on my shelf has gotten me through most of January, and there...
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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Oh, 2015!

If the first few weeks of 2015 has been an indication of what's to come, this is going to be a different kind of year for our family.  Thanks to fate and some plans of our own, we are knee (or...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Tony Chestnut

Finally, the day has come. My kids are going back to school and I'm bawling. It's been a very long holiday for us, with lots of family time, ending in a funeral for a great, great man. I hurried...
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Sunday, January 4, 2015

1985 LDS Hymnbook

Back in 1985, when the church published the new hymnbooks, our ward didn't have the money to buy all new ones for the whole congregation, so families were asked by the Bishop at the time (my grandpa)...
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Friday, January 2, 2015

Uncle Johnny

In my last post, my first post (of the new year) I mentioned that some stories end while others are just beginning.   One final chapter in our family's history closed officially on Tuesday...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015

The Secret to Everything

Happy New Year! I woke up this morning, slightly groggy, but feeling good about staying up until midnight with my son who was eager to do this grown-up thing!  (No this picture is not from...
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