Tuesday, November 27, 2018

"Remember Me"-Themed Thanksgiving

 

I hosted Thanksgiving for our family this year.  The last (and the first) time I hosted was five years ago when Guy was baptized.  So it was time.  My children were so excited to host.  They love, like I do, planning parties and being creative and planning special things for their loved ones.  So this was a really fun family thing to do together.  But with Steve working on finishing the basement, and two little babies that we didn't have five years ago, this was a major undertaking which took a lot of work and teamwork!
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Monday, October 29, 2018

Beauty for Ashes

Earlier today, I came out of the grocery store and discovered this on my windshield. Someone decided that each Oct 29th, on the anniversary of their father's death from cancer, they would make...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Ten Years of Autumn

Today is my third child's 10th birthday!  Autumn Frost Christensen is often a whisper of a presence, so gentle and sometimes has a mysterious nature because she doesn't say everything that's...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

A Transition Time

Families are so important.  And I'm so grateful for the one that I came from.  I love that I can pick up the phone, or more accurately, my sisters always call me, to see how I am doing...
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Monday, October 22, 2018

I Still Want My Monday Nights!

Hi there.  I'm excited for the church changes.  Everyone, please don't get me wrong, but every time I pour over what needs to be done/changed, I feel like I now have to take apart a puzzle...
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Friday, October 19, 2018

Freedom

This is the face of someone who just took a two-week fast from social media and other media that brings negative and impure thoughts, as directed by a prophet of God in the most recent General Conference...
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Saturday, October 6, 2018

General Conference: THIS is the Greatest Show!

Yay, General Conference!  That first Saturday Morning session was the bomb!  I just wanted to pop in here real quick and share what we're doing to help the kids enjoy and get the most out...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

A Happier, Less Complicated Life

We made signs to post along our General Conference 5k for FHE last night.  I was in a hurry to find quotes from last Conference so I took them from a site that had compiled a quick list of them. ...
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Sunday, September 30, 2018

General Conference 5k

Our family loves General Conference, and rightly so.  Over the last 13 years, we've always set aside Conference weekend, protected it from distractions, celebrated it with food, games and fun. ...
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Monday, September 17, 2018

Endurance

This summer, I fell in love with this piece of artwork on display in our town's municipal center art show.   Of course, I loved that the local artist chose to depict the subject of Motherhood,...
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