It’s rare to find someone who has not read at least one of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books. The depiction of her growing up years in the American prairie has captured the imagination of generations. What lessons we have learned from the hard working Ingalls family: obedience, perseverance, duty, love! As you read my stories of […]
Archives for 2017
January Happenings
The beginning of January started with Joseph and Abby taking a road trip to Idaho. First they dropped Sara back off at BYU-Idaho in Rexburg for her 2nd semester of college. Then they helped Eve and Patrick move to Moscow for Patrick’s internship. Joseph and Abby drove through Boise just as they got hit with […]
The Homeschool Cycle
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from studying science, or history for that matter, it’s “Everything runs on a cycle.” In science we learn about the water cycle, the carbon cycle, the cell cycle, etc. Our years are based on seasons that cycle through one after another. History also repeats itself. This is best shown […]
My Ancestry.com DNA Results
I know. I already did an ancestral DNA test with 23andMe. Why did I do one from Ancestry.com? Well, mostly because I am hoping to some day find a DNA match whose family tree looks nothing like mine. My great-great-grandmother had four children but was never married. My great-grandmother didn’t know her father’s name (at […]
Stay Healthy in Cold and Flu Season
Ah, Winter! The time when sicknesses of all sorts seem to abound. When you have a large family and a sickness starts it can be a gamble – will it pass through everyone quickly or will it drag out for a month, or will the ones who got it first get it again? So far […]
Being a Witness of Jesus Christ
As many of you know I teach early morning seminary – a scripture study class for teens in high school. Every school day we meet at 6:30 to read and learn from the scriptures. This school year we are studying the New Testament. How I love learning about Jesus Christ! It has been such a […]
Recommended Reading Online
Do you have time to read? Maybe a quick article or two? I’ve come across several the past few weeks that I’d like to share with you. Personal Improvement Personal Ministry: Sacred and Precious is a BYU devotional given by Bonnie D. Parkin in 2007. It is full of wonderful insights on how to go […]
Unprepared
It’s 2017! And I feel so unprepared. We had an amazing Christmas break. It was so fun to have Eve, Patrick and baby Thea here visiting for a week. Sara was home from BYU-Idaho too. Christmas morning we were able to video chat with Marie! It was so wonderful to hear her voice, meet her […]