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I Love The Book of Mormon!

December 14, 2018 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 7 Comments

See this book? I finished reading it again. Finished it a month ago on November 18th. This past General Conference President Russell M. Nelson offered four invitations to the women of the church. The second invitation was to read the Book of Mormon by the end of the year. “I invite you to read the […]

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The Mom Conference Package

October 23, 2017 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} Leave a Comment

Were you able to watch any sessions of The Mom Conference? I only had a limited time each day to watch a few (or listen as I drove to town). My favorite speakers were Ramona Zabriskie on which one wins – motherhood or marriage, Dr. Laura Markham on how to minimize sibling rivalry, and Kristen […]

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The Mom Conference 2017 is Coming!

October 12, 2017 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} Leave a Comment

You work hard to put dinner on the table, make sure your kids don’t look homeless, and run them around to soccer, dance, and piano. Sometimes it feels like a vacation to go to the bathroom alone, or on a solo shopping trip to Target. You equip them with everything they need clothes, food, a […]

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Road Trips With Kids – My Tips

July 19, 2017 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 6 Comments

Tips for Road Trips with Kids

My side of the family had a reunion at the beginning of July. . . in Illinois. Guess who got to drive over 3,000 miles round trip with nine children but without her husband? Yup, yours truly. The reunion had been planned for a year but the timing for our farming was plain awful. The […]

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Splitting the Sky

April 27, 2017 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 2 Comments

See these two beautiful souls? Anna and Amber came here three years ago to give a presentation called Women of Faith at church. Amber wrote about that here. While they were visiting they also interviewed me for a project that was in the beginning stages. They call it Splitting the Sky. The name comes from […]

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Spring Break 2017

April 13, 2017 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} Leave a Comment

We didn’t go anywhere for spring break this year. People came to visit us instead! First Joseph’s cousin and his family stopped for a short visit on their way back home to Oregon. We had all the extended family here in Winnemucca come to our house for dinner so everyone could chat and visit. The next […]

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My Messy Life

March 9, 2017 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 12 Comments

Anybody noticed the lack of posts lately? I’ve been having trouble with certain parts of WordPress. Some days it works totally fine and others I can’t even access it to post or look at stats or even get behind the scenes to see what is wrong. I thought I had it fixed but now its […]

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23andMe or AncestryDNA – Which Should You Use for a DNA Test?

February 9, 2017 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 3 Comments

One question I get the most often about the DNA tests I’ve done is “Which company do you like better, AncestryDNA or 23andMe?” That’s kind of a hard question to answer because they each focus on different areas. It depends on what YOU are looking for in a DNA test. ANCESTRY DNA AncestryDNA is great […]

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My Ancestry.com DNA Results

January 23, 2017 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 4 Comments

Ancestry.com DNA results overview

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 […]

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Stay Healthy in Cold and Flu Season

January 17, 2017 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 3 Comments

fruits and vegetables

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 […]

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Recommended Reading Online

January 8, 2017 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 2 Comments

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 […]

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Unprepared

January 3, 2017 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 5 Comments

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 […]

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4 Scriptures That Represent Me

December 6, 2016 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 2 Comments

"His word was in mine heart as a burning fire." Jeremiah 20:9 #LIGHTtheWORLD

One of the recommendations for December 6th’s #LIGHTtheWORLD challenge is to “Find three scriptures that represent you. Share them with someone close to you.” Today I am sharing four scriptures that represent me. So this one is a little obvious. When I was discussing what scriptures to use this morning at breakfast with my older […]

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Time Slides Away

November 18, 2016 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 5 Comments

Oh sweet Henry boy. How did the time just slide away? I want to cradle you in my arms forever stroking your soft hair as we gaze into each other’s eyes. But you have other plans. Mostly. You insist on getting bigger. Learning some words like “bottle” and “shoes” and “mom, mom” while still getting […]

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My America

November 10, 2016 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 6 Comments

My daughter, Marie, is serving as a missionary in Swansea, Wales right now. In her email home on Monday she spoke about the experience she had serving refugees, most from Sudan. She shared some wise words we’ve been reading over and over to help us keep our perspective after the election. Marie wrote: “When I […]

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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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