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Printables from the April 2015 Womens Session

April 3, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} Leave a Comment

We must find quiet moments to seek greater light and truth. Cheryl A Esplin

Last Saturday was the beginning of General Conference. I love this twice yearly opportunity to hear from our church leaders! The Womens Session is for girls and women ages 8 and up. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Family Home Evening program as well as the 20th anniversary of The Family: A Proclamation […]

Filed Under: General Conference, latest Tagged With: General Conference, Relief Society

Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies

April 2, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 4 Comments

Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies - soft, chewy, and very, very rich.

My oldest daughter is getting married in a little over a week! We are in full blown preparation mode right now. The wedding itself is planned and ready. It’s the reception we are still working on. It’s going to be a cookie and milk bar with six different kinds of cookies. Of course we are […]

Filed Under: Cookbook, latest, Recipes Tagged With: cookies, Death by chocolate

My Top 5 Pieces of Homeschooling Advice

March 31, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 7 Comments

5 pieces of homeschooling advice from a homeschooling mother of 10 with 16+ years of homeschooling experience.

Advice is a funny thing. It can be bad or good, solicited or not, freely given yet not willingly taken. Why should/would anyone care what I think? I don’t know. As part of Sonlight’s March Blog party celebrating their 25th anniversary all year long we were asked to “Share the best homeschooling advice you have […]

Filed Under: Establish a House, Homeschool Encouragement, latest Tagged With: homeschool

Free Easter Prints

March 25, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 2 Comments

The weather is starting to warm up a bit. The kids are anxious to start digging in the dirt. We’ve bought new chicks, scoured garden seed catalogs, and are deciding on stucco color for the house. All signs that spring is here! The Easter and spring decorations have been slowly making their appearance. I decided […]

Filed Under: Easter, Establish a House, latest, Printables Tagged With: Easter, printables

Names of Christ Easter Eggs

March 23, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 5 Comments

We tried something a bit different this year with our Easter tree! Instead of using the tags with names of Christ on them that come in The Living Christ Easter countdown we wrote on hollowed out eggs and then dyed them. It is an easy project. Just go into it expecting to crack a few eggs […]

Filed Under: Easter, latest

Just living

March 20, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 10 Comments

It’s one of those days. The kind were I did not get enough sleep (4.5 hours) because Jason decided he really wanted to have Mommy sleeping next to him all.night.long. in the trundle bed. Ugh! And because I teach early morning seminary that starts promptly at 6:30am I can’t just sleep in. After seminary though […]

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Family Work Part 3: Family Service

March 18, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 4 Comments

Ideas and Tips for family service projects

Regular family service projects are a wonderful way to engage everyone, young and old. It teaches children to be aware of others needs and also facilitates children’s naturally generous natures (once they get past the terrible twos and tough threes that is). “My brothers and sisters, we are surrounded by those in need of our […]

Filed Under: Establish a House, latest Tagged With: service

Happy 173rd Birthday, Relief Society!

March 17, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} Leave a Comment

As individuals, we are strong. Together with God, we are unstoppable. Rosemary M. Wixom

Relief Society is the name of our church’s organization for women. It was officially organized on March 17, 1942 in Nauvoo, Illinois. What started off as a small gathering of women has grown to include close to 7 million women in 185 countries. I love learning about the history of Relief Society, the work women […]

Filed Under: latest, My Faith

Family Work Part 2: Whining and Complaining

March 12, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 8 Comments

How to deal with whining and complaining from toddlers to teens.

Have any of the following ever happened in your family? When the mention of work or chores is made kids break out in whining, tears, back talk, or stomping their feet throwing a fit. Some even run and hide. No? It never happens to you? Well. Maybe you should be the one writing this series […]

Filed Under: Establish a House, latest Tagged With: chores, work

The Power of a Mother’s Words in Letters

March 8, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 8 Comments

Do you know how sometimes you can read things a gazillion times and they don’t mean much and then, for some unexplained reason, you will read it again and something will just click? The past couple of weeks there have been two things mulling around in my head, two experiences I’ve read, that just came […]

Filed Under: latest, Motherhood Tagged With: letters

Celebrating a Christ-centered Easter {Review}

March 6, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 2 Comments

Celebrating a Christ-Centered Easter by Emily Freeman

One of my all time favorite holidays is coming up! I love Easter. Absolutely adore it! I especially love celebrating it with my family creating traditions for my children and passing on old ones from my own childhood. To keep us focused on what we are celebrating – the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ […]

Filed Under: Easter, latest, Library

Family Work Part 1

March 4, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 6 Comments

15 Ideas to make family work more enjoyable.

Some of the best memories I have are those that involve working with my family both growing up and now with my own children. It is a bonding time where singing or whistling occurs between storytelling, teasing, and yes, sometimes, even quarreling. We are together working side-by-side or at least in close proximity to each […]

Filed Under: Establish a House, latest Tagged With: Responsibility, work

Make Reading Fun for Kids

February 25, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 6 Comments

7 ideas to make reading fun for kids

Kerry shares ideas on making reading fun for kids in this guest post for the Establish a House series. Our children spend the first two or three years at school learning how to read. After that and for the rest of their lives, they read to learn. For their success, it’s essential that they learn […]

Filed Under: Establish a House, Language Arts, latest

Family Reunion Centerpiece Ideas

February 24, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 4 Comments

Decoupage a letter initial with old family photos. Make it into an "I Spy" game!

The past couple of weeks my kids and I have been crafting up some fun interactive centerpieces for a HUGE (and I mean HUGE) family reunion that will take place the end of this week. It’s for the Wadsworth side of the family. There are over 450 descendants of these two wonderful people, F. Don […]

Filed Under: Genealogy, latest Tagged With: family reunion

Spring in February?

February 20, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 5 Comments

We have had such a mild winter. It is not what we need. We needed tons of rain and snow to build up the snowpack in the mountains. Our fields are watered with wells but the farm in Fallon is irrigated from the Truckee River. They might not get any of their water this coming […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Farming, latest

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Hello, I'm Montserrat. I'm a farmer's wife, mother of eleven, homeschooler, chocoholic, music lover, and like to play a good game of Scrabble. You can read more about me here. . .

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