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Every once in a while and totally unintentionally my brain spews out a good idea.

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Female Family History

March 1, 2016 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 5 Comments

Julie B. Beck once said, “We study our history to learn who we are. There is a worldwide hunger among good women to know their identity, value, and importance.”  Though Sister Beck was talking about learning the history of Relief Society, I think this applies to our family history as well. The Relief Society began […]

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American Chronicles – The Art of Norman Rockwell

February 11, 2016 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} Leave a Comment

After touring the Provo City Center Temple we took the kids to the BYU Museum of Art to see the Norman Rockwell exhibit. WOW! I love Norman Rockwell and have since I was little. Joseph and I even tried to recreate a few of his paintings when we were dating. I’d forgotten all about that […]

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My Home Can Be a Holy Place {book review}

October 23, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} Leave a Comment

My Home Can Be a Holy Place by Kristen M. Oaks

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 […]

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Truths Most Worth Knowing {Book Review}

October 16, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 2 Comments

Truths Most Worth Knowing, An Apostle's Witness by Boyd K. Packer

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 […]

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Girls Who Choose God – Book of Mormon edition

October 1, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 2 Comments

Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Strong Women from the Book of Mormon

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 […]

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Maybe Today {Book Review}

August 13, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 17 Comments

Maybe Today by David Butler and Emily Belle Freeman

Hey you, sitting there wishing for something, anything to fill the emptiness inside. Or maybe you are pretty happy about life right now but feel there is something more that can be done to make it better. We’ve all had those days, the good and the bad and the somewhere in-between. How do we go about making […]

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Favorite Summer Reading and Learning Activities {Blog Hop}

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

Joining in on Sonlight’s June Blog Party today! We were asked to share our favorite summer reading and learning activities. We are farmers. Summertime is full of learning how to work hard and learning how to work together as a family. It includes teens waking up at 5 am to go rake hay, younger kids […]

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Home and School

June 19, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 5 Comments

Homeschooling has been a great thing for our family! My kids are second generation homeschoolers. Both my husband and I were homeschooled during high school. Now we aren’t against public education in anyway. We are what we like to call PRO education, choosing the best of all available options for our kids. In our case […]

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Mothering Through the Whirlwind {Book Review}

June 18, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} Leave a Comment

One thing mothers like to do when they get together is ask for advice, swap stories, and try to learn from each other how to be a better mother to their own children. It is in the stories that we find common ground. Mothering Through the Whirlwind by Tamara Passey is like a one-on-one talk with […]

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5, 4, 3, 2, 1

June 15, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 8 Comments

Five… books I am currently reading: Mothering through the Whirlwind by Tamara Passey – written by a friend who was also Arizona’s Young Mother of the Year in 2013! I’ll be sharing a review here on the blog on Thursday. Maybe Today byDavid Butler and Emily Belle Freeman – I love all of Emily Freeman’s […]

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15 Ways to Encourage Reading

June 9, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 7 Comments

15 Ways to Encourage Reading

Reading is truly one of the best things in the world! But how do you convince a child who would rather muck out a chicken coop or eat a bowl of brussels sprouts that reading really is fun? Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so […]

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Summer Reading Reward Coupon Sheets

June 4, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 1 Comment

Fill out these summer reading reward coupons with prizes your kids can earn for doing their summer reading charts - CranialHiccups.com

As parents, we know that reading good books comes with its own rewards like a gained knowledge and appreciation for the world and people around us. Sometimes though it’s just plain fun to have some external reward for reading, especially for kids. Here are three different summer reading reward coupon sheets that you can fill […]

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Summer Reading Charts

June 2, 2015 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 11 Comments

FUN SUMMER READING CHARTS! Three different charts to keep kids engaged in reading new books this summer. One chart is HOW or WHERE to read a book for at least 15 minutes a day. Another tells what CHARACTER or OBJECT should be in a book. The last is for WHERE or WHAT TIME the book takes place. From CranialHiccups.com

Most kids I know LOVE charts. There’s just something about crossing off what you’ve done that makes you feel good. Summer reading charts are no exception. My kids really enjoy having a chart to help them decide what book to read next. Will it be a book about an astronaut or will it take place in […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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