We buy chocolate in bulk at our house. Not just any chocolate either. We get the good stuff! Guittard semi-sweet chocolate chips in 25 lb boxes (um, 6 boxes of it at a time!) and Guittard dutch cocoa in 40 pound drums. It takes us one year to go through the chocolate chips, two years […]
Archives for October 2015
Henny Penny
Our family goes through nicknames like a kid trying out a new box of crayons. A new one seems to pop up out of nowhere and then they just evolve, many times without any reasonable explanations. Henry has been Hen for a little while. It started because of a cute onsie that had a newly […]
My Home Can Be a Holy Place {book review}
Ever on the lookout for ways to teach my children that our home is a sacred space for them to feel loved I was excited to be approached by Deseret Book to review this new book by Kristen M. Oaks, My Home Can Be a Holy Place. Throughout the pages of the book we watch […]
Richly Hued Harvest
Rain. Bucket loads of it during June and July brought life to the dry desert dirt. A video posted by Montserrat Wadsworth (@cranialhiccups) on Jul 8, 2015 at 4:44pm PDT And to our garden. While weeds and vegetable (and fruit) plants grew we could never really be sure there would be much of a harvest. […]
Truths Most Worth Knowing {Book Review}
If you were given the chance to write or gather some words of wisdom before you died what would you include? It’s an interesting question to think about. Not many of us would have that opportunity but one who did was Boyd K. Packer. President Packer was born in 1924, the tenth of eleven children. His […]
October 2015 General Conference Jeopardy
How well did you pay attention to General Conference? Play this October 2015 General Conference Jeopardy game to find out! This is a fun game to play in seminary, young men or young women mutual activities and even family home evening. It is a great review to see how much you learned from the words of our […]
The Cokeville Miracle (Review)
What would you do if you found out there was a crazed man and his wife with a bomb holding a whole school hostage? Would you be praying for a miracle? What if the bomb went off and the only people killed where the perpetrators? Would you consider that a miracle? What if many of […]
October 2015 General Conference Printables
October 2015 General Conference printables are here! I am so sad for this weekend to end! It was a spiritual feast to listen to our inspired leaders as they offered words of counsel, encouragement, and conviction. For those who aren’t Mormon you can read little bit about what General Conference is here. Read, watch, or listen […]
Girls Who Choose God – Book of Mormon edition
It’s happened again. Only this time its even better! I’m talking about the second Girls Who Choose God book by McArthur Krishna and Bethany Spalding. I shared the first book last year. It features eleven women from the Bible. This year’s release is all about the strong women in the Book of Mormon. Yes! Here, I’ll […]