Why Being a Mom is Just as Cool as Being Harry Potter
For the last six months my husband and I have been reading the Harry Potter books to our kids before bedtime. Last night we finished the seventh book, and like I always do when good stories come to an...
View ArticleWhy Having a December Birthday is NOT a Bummer
A week before my first son was born I spent a very special afternoon with my Grandmother. She is famous for making wonderful chocolates, especially carmel turtles. They are the best. It was getting...
View ArticleThe Power of a Mother’s Blessing
It seems like very General Conference I have my ears and heart open to, and searching for, messages about birth, womanhood and motherhood. They are topics that I can always rest assured will get...
View ArticleDoes the Journey Seem Long? : Ethel Reynolds Smith
This year in Relief Society we are studying the life and teachings of Joseph Fielding Smith, the 10th prophet of the church. As I read through the short biography of him given in the front of the...
View ArticleRent in Twain
My first baby was hard to push out. After an extended length of pushing he was born and we saw that he’d had his elbow up by his head (try reaching your arm to your opposite ear and you’ll have the...
View ArticleEvery Baby is a Royal Baby
Has anyone else been a bit ga-ga over the new royal baby? I am a bit embarrassed to say that I have been gobbling up every tidbit I’ve been able to read about William and Kate’s new baby boy. I’m not...
View ArticleWhat was the Temple like in Jesus’s Time?
3D Model of the Temple in Jesus’s Time The Temple in Jerusalem plays an important role in the New Testament. It was the center of the Jewish faith and consequently, was the center of many of Jesus’s...
View Article“I Will Go”: Rebekah’s Famous Refrain
Rebekah is the most determined and energetic of the matriarchs in the Old Testament. Not only does she seem to RUN everywhere, but she shows incredible resolve, wisdom and strength many times...
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