Like I said we are meeting here every Monday to discuss the book A Mother’s Book of Secrets by Linda Eyre & Shawni Eyre Pothier. Because I was in real need of a “Mothering Pick Me Up” and this is already helping me out quite a bit. You really don’t have to be reading the book along
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We did it again this year (dying easter eggs with spices, vegetables, juices, etc.) but we turned it into a science experiment and switched up the directions a bit. This is what we did all day, I ignored everything else, poor poor house is a disaster. First we had to bug our chickens for all
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I posted on Facebook a couple of months ago (although I am no longer on that blasted Facebook!) that I was doing “Baptism Books” for the kids turning eight this year in Primary. A few people wondered what they were and what was in them. Why, let me tell you! LDS Baptism Books We schedule
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I spent a lot of time looking at that bug on the dashboard. Some jungle guy had made it out of the leaves on the tree for Abby. I stared at it for so, so long because the traffic had been unbelievably horrible. We (*ahem* ok —I—-) had decided to head back into the capital
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Did you notice my header? It has Shae in it now! And finally, finally (I have wanted to do this for years) my blog is organized the way I would like. I have tabs on the side where you can quickly get to posts in different categories, and the navigation bar is now fixed. I
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For visiting teaching this past month, I tried to pick a good talk from General Conference to share with the ladies I was going to visit. I went through every talk, and then…of course the right one for them was the LAST one. Ha! So I brought over some flowers with some highlighted parts of
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I put Abby into afternoon Kindergarten for a reason. Shae takes her longest nap in the afternoon, exactly during Abby’s school time, so now Poki (Cameron) and I can have the afternoon all to ourselves!! I get them both ready for school at the same time and they both pack up their backpacks. I put
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Letter A Words that Start with A Acorn Airplane Alligator Alphabet Aluminum America Animals Ant Antennae Apple April Art August Author Autumn Music -Make up a song that you sing throughout the week (and review occasionally) about the letter A. Include the sounds the letter makes and words that start with the letter A.
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Singing With Your Children My daughter sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for the first time this week with no help. It almost made me cry, Ok you got me…maybe it did, but just a little It is definitely going down in her baby book. She loves to sing, usually we sing while we make our
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What is one of the single things you as a parent can do that will provide your child with a sense of belonging, connectedness, security, stability, pride in their heritage and family? Family Traditions Creating them now and faithfully repeating them throughout your children’s lives will supply you with many great family memories. Growing up
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