tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20550171994125193122024-03-12T19:09:06.040-06:00Shboogoo's Mommy's BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger327125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-21375593640127838352018-01-01T21:14:00.000-07:002018-01-01T21:58:36.023-07:00Books I finished in 2017<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-575495813107993356" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #333333; line-height: 1.3; position: relative; width: 338px;">
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Howard W. Hunter - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints </span></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare {<i>out loud with our kids as part of our homeschool curriculum}</i> </span></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn (4th edition) - Penny Simkin, PT; Janet Whalley, RN, IBCLC; Ann Keppler, RN, MN; Janelle Durham, MSW, ICCE, LCCE; and April Bolding, PT,DPT,CCE,CD</span></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Bronze Bow - Elizabeth George Speare </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">{<i>out loud with our kids as part of our homeschool curriculum}</i></span></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts On Kindness - George Saunders<i> {this is his convocation speech at Syracuse University that was made into a book}</i></span></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sleeping With Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping - James J McKenna, Ph.D. </span></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Door in the Wall - Marguerite De Angeli </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">{<i>out loud with our <span style="font-size: 15.84px;">kids as part of our homeschool curriculum}</span></i></span></span></li>
<li style="font-size: 15.84px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Nursing Mother's Companion (7th edition) - Kathleen Huggins, RN, MS</span></span></li>
<li style="font-size: 15.84px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Amelia Bedelia Means Business - Herman Parish {daughter checked it out from the library and I ended up reading it all to myself -- two books in one}</span></span></li>
<li style="font-size: 15.84px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Amelia Bedelia Unleashed - Herman Parish</span></span></li>
<li style="font-size: 15.84px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reflections from a Broken Mirror: Spiritual Values I Learned as an LDS Child of Divorce - Deborah Eldredge Milne</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 15.84px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Gordon B. Hinckley - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 15.84px; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">More than Miracles: Extraordinary Stories from 17 Miracles - T. C. Christensen and Jolene S. Allphin</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.84px;">Our family loves the <a href="http://tuttletwins.com/a/?ap_id=littlemanda" target="_blank">Tuttle Twins books</a>' stories and illustrations too!</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-1847152627587394942017-03-05T15:43:00.002-07:002017-03-05T15:45:48.018-07:00words about kindness!The discussion in my ward's Relief Society lesson a few weeks ago made me want to look up quote images about kindness. I believe that <i>words are powerful</i>, with a positive or a negative effect. My sweet friend Jaimie {Brave in the Waves: <a href="http://www.braveinthewaves.com/" target="_blank">http://www.braveinthewaves.com</a>} has taught me more about this truth through her writing, including personal emails. Kindness is so needed! Words about KINDNESS are motivating! That day I downloaded some of the images I loved the most, and I'm sharing them in this post. Today at church, also, one of our wonderful Sunday School teachers mentioned the kindnesses we can show to others. 😀 I feel better when I am kind, and happy when people are kind to me!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'd forgotten about these photos from the days before Fourth Girl was born. I had used the camera on D's old phone that we also had the contraction-timing app on. Then I was happy to find the photos during a road trip last weekend. I fell in love with the ones of my belly with the baby lower (I don't like the word "dropped" very much) as she was working on coming out. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>We almost had a home birth</i> and it was wonderful. I just wouldn't use that word to describe the c-section, but they wouldn't let us take pictures until the baby was born anyway. My doula sent me the last photo, showing D and me soon after we arrived at the hospital. This baby is a perfect baby. And my recovery was good -- yay placenta encapsulation!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Probably my favorite part of <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/tomorrow-the-lord-will-do-wonders-among-you?lang=eng" target="_blank">Elder Holland's April 2016 LDS General Conference talk</a> (which I've listened to a few times including yesterday) was:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If we give our heart to God, if we love the Lord Jesus Christ, if we do
the best we can to live the gospel, then tomorrow—and every other day—is
ultimately going to be magnificent, even if we don’t always recognize
it as such. Why? Because our Heavenly Father wants it to be! He wants to
bless us. A rewarding, abundant, and eternal life is the very object of
His merciful plan for His children! It is a plan predicated on the
truth “that all things work together for good to them that love God.”</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then this morning before 1:00 church, I listened for the third time to <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2016/04/what-shall-we-do?lang=eng" target="_blank">Sister Neill F. Marriott's talk from the General Women's Session</a> that was part of the same conference. Actually, I had searched on the Gospel Library app for the word "baby" and found the talk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let me interrupt myself. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bout <a href="http://shboogoo.blogspot.com/2016/01/first-blog-post-of-2016.html" target="_blank">those New Year's R</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://shboogoo.blogspot.com/2016/01/first-blog-post-of-2016.html" target="_blank">esolutions</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> . . . </span></span></span>I <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">am trying to</span> improve with them. #5 and #7 are already done. But the<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> one about getting up by 7 a.m. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has been hard. Why? Because I'm pregnant! I <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">could have just over two weeks left (that's when my <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">guess date i<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">s). <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I love pregnancy and I <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">feel like once she's born -- a fourth girl! -- </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>I might <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">miss having her inside moving around. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We're all <i>really</i> excited to meet her<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, though!</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">January 2, a few days before my expected period (but I <i>knew</i> that I was pregnant)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So that's why I want<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> to keep <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hearing or reading positive thoughts and stories about <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pregnancy, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">birth, and newborns.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here's what Sister Marriott said:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mothers literally make room in their bodies to nurture an unborn
baby—and hopefully a place in their hearts as they raise them—but
nurturing is not limited to bearing children. Eve was called a “mother”
before she had children. I
believe that “to mother” means “to give life.” Think of the many ways
you give life. It could mean giving emotional life to the hopeless or
spiritual life to the doubter. With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can
create an emotionally healing place for the discriminated against, the
rejected, and the stranger. In these tender yet powerful ways, we build
the kingdom of God.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-58889918697960287662016-04-17T22:47:00.000-06:002016-04-17T22:47:20.605-06:00for the tooth fairy<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First Girl lost two teeth at the beginning of April! <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">B</span>oth on the top. Second Girl had two loose ones too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Together they created things and placed them on the floor of their room for the tooth fairy to enjoy. Like when people leave a treat out for Santa Claus (who we don't talk much about in our family). It was so fun when I discovered what they had done. The cookies are bits of Larabar<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, and the<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">y made a little wardrobe with clothes that the tooth fairy could try on. </span></span>I love their creativity!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They like to keep their teeth, but luckily the tooth fairy left First Girl some coins anyway. It was $1.75 in a sandwich bag with </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a tiny note.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She spent $1.08 of it on a Frozen harmonica (50% off).</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-35501149035165037102016-01-03T18:03:00.002-07:002016-01-03T19:31:44.327-07:00first blog post of 2016<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Happy New Year! It's finally the year that I was going to marry my friend who I <i>did</i> marry almost twelve years ago. He had asked in high school, "Hey, if you're not married by 2016, will you marry me?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It has been snowing ALL DAY here and hasn't stopped. It's so beautiful. We had a great Christmas season and enjoyed the December snow too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have been
outside for a total of about two minutes. We stayed home from church
because of First Girl feeling sick. (She is mostly better by now but
starting Friday night she didn't feel like eating.) They've watched some
Veggie Tales, and we had the TV off for a while, I played some Primary songs on the piano and sang along, we read a kind of long
book together, and we saw some Mormon Channel videos on YouTube. Two out of
three kids had baths; the other will need one also. The four-year-old hurt the six-year-old's feelings so I helped with that. I think we should
probably call grandparents, after dinner. Oh, but a lot of clean clothing still isn't put away. I can do both at the same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I wasn't sure how to begin this blog post. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Maybe I feel like I did <a href="http://shboogoo.blogspot.com/2007/10/whatever-i-want-it-to-be.html">then</a>. I wasn't sure what this blog would turn out to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I think I want to have few if any public photos of our kids now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What do I do with what's here already? I began blogging in 2007. I could slowly use the best posts to make digital scrapbooks that I would print, and delete them from Blogger. I don't want to change it to private.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Basically, I need to figure things out, how I can best spend my time. The ones I need to communicate and share with most are my family and close relatives. I have an email draft to finish that is a simple letter and photos for our parents and siblings to see. I have other places where I share photos now, but not publicly. And if I wanted to back up with Flickr again like I did a long time ago (I think mainly in 2009), that sounds like work and I would need a new login or account. I started a private Instagram account in October, and I use Facebook.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">These are the measurable goals (resolutions) I came up with for 2016:</span></i><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><br />
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<li><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Turn off the lights to sleep by 11:00 p.m., and closer to 10:30 might be best. This is hard for me. </span></span></li>
<li><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Wake up by 7:00 and do first things first. But <a href="http://shboogoo.blogspot.com/2007/10/morning.html" target="_blank">5:30</a> is too early.</span></span></li>
<li><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Start and end the day with personal prayer.</span></span></li>
<li><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Read / feast / ponder from the Book of Mormon daily -- the verses on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bofm365/" target="_blank">@bofm365</a>. I feel peace every time. I'm glad that my husband is going to do it too!</span></span></li>
<li><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Read more books this year than I did the last couple of years. (Only six in 2015.)</span></span></li>
<li><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Work on postpartum doula certification for at least one hour a week.</span></span></li>
<li><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Publish recipes on my whole foods plant-based blog.</span></span></li>
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<span class="st"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">That's probably enough to work on. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">:-) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And that's how I will spend some of my time. </span>I bought a little composition book to keep track of spiritual goals such as "</span><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">✓ morning kneeling prayer". </span></span> I could get another little book for the other goals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Things are going well for our family. We'll be able to pay off most of our debt this year and we are so grateful. I / we will definitely spend time with new friends here too. I am looking forward to a vegan potluck next week.</span><br />
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<span class="st"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I did not quite finish 360 BYU devotionals by the end of 2015 but I listened to 347! </span></span><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It was 360, not 365, because the idea came to me on January 5th and 360 is a nice round number. I </span></span>am continuing until I have finished that goal. I listen while I get dressed, make meals, do chores, etc.</span></span><br />
<span class="st"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-801997450215373662015-10-11T21:53:00.004-06:002015-10-15T19:14:30.303-06:00something good happened.<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm going to get back to blogging here a little more often than once every four months. I like to <a href="https://www.lds.org/church/share/goodness?lang=eng">share goodness</a> online publicly, not just on my private social media accounts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well, if you know me and/or my little family you know we had a big change recently! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At the beginning of July, my husband had been working at a retail store for three years and a shop manager for one of those years. It wasn't as great as we had thought it would be, and he had been very down for a few months (real depression but also just hard stuff that I'm not going into detail about). . . . <b>Then something good happened</b>. Okay, most things were already good, especially from my perspective. This is us honoring the fact that we had met TWENTY years earlier:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And that same week my sister let me be in the room when her third baby was born! It was the first time I had seen a human birth in person:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Those were in February, just before the most difficult months. Then we enjoyed two of D's other siblings' weddings in May and July. (His brother who is four years younger than him got married <a href="http://shboogoo.blogspot.com/2015/03/unfinished-posts-and-some-pictures.html">last September</a>, so all three weddings were within less than a year. Now all but the youngest are married).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But this was<i> extra</i> good for D and me, and such a relief long-term. <i>Here it is</i>: he got an email congratulating him because the Army was considering him for an AGR position -- Active Guard and Reserve. He's been in the United States Army Reserve since before we got married. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Almost everyone in a Reserve unit works two days a month and two or more weeks in the summer, but a few soldiers need to run and plan things full time</span>. We didn't want to get our hopes up about the position (the salary would be much higher), but he felt like it was really going to happen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A month later, on August 4th, he got the orders! On August 21st, movers boxed and took almost all of our possessions ("household goods "). That was different and kind nice, especially that the Army paid for it. That week we also had going-away parties: a Watermelon Party for our kids and their friends, and an adults-only party with our family and close friends plus our oldest girl. We spent August 26th and 27th driving a total of 750 miles to our destination, with our whole family and suitcases in a PT cruiser, which is not a big vehicle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We used exactly ten hotel nights, of the ten that the Army reimburses, while he worked short days and we looked for a home to rent. (We saw the outside of over 30 homes, and the inside of few. I think we signed the papers for our home on September 3rd. We started living in it on September 6th.) Here are photos of the girls doing laundry with me in the hotel, but usually it was my husband who did it. I can't remember why. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And a fun picture from the day we left the hotel:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We started living in this townhouse the day before Labor Day . . . and finally received our first paycheck besides travel pay on September 15th, and our household goods back on September 21st. We had been using air mattresses after our hotel living ended, so we were excited to have our own beds back. Oh, and we bought a nice futon since our other couch had to go to the landfill. Another exciting thing was being able to use our real dishes and have more than one pan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This has been such a <b>huge blessing</b> for my husband's mental health, for our finances, etc. "Better than [we] deserve" as Dave Ramsey says. We've already started to pay off our credit card debt, more than just ten dollars above the minimum payment. It is a career, which he has wanted for years, and it's easier and more suitable for him than the retail store was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We had thought that we would be in our previous place (our 7th home; a condo we moved to a while after I made <a href="http://shboogoo.blogspot.com/search?q=pictures+of+home">this list</a>) for at least two years. It was only one year, but that's okay because we like our 8th home too. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We're probably going to need to
move every three to five years as long as he's AGR. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/come-what-may-and-love-it?lang=eng">Come what may, and love it</a>," right? :-) </span></span></span></span>This townhouse is perfect for us: nobody living below (or above) us! a garage! our own little fenced backyard! the church is close enough to walk to, and so are some places to shop! The neighbors are nice, the layout is better, and it's a lot newer. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We have an end unit, and we have almost never heard the neighbors who are to the east; even then I barely could hear their child crying or whatever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The other change I'm grateful for is that we decided to do a trial year of <b>homeschool</b>. I was interested in doing it for over a year and last year was too soon for us. This August, I found out about a homeschooling conference (an LDS one) happening in our new city starting just the day after we would arrive. The mom I talked to who had organized it let D and me, and the kids, come for free. We attended it for a couple hours Friday night and longer on Saturday. Yeah, the kids got bored, but a corner with toys, coloring stuff, and other children was helpful. Anyway, we had had a few short "practice days" of school before moving, and then started to really do it with a routine and curriculum on September 8th. I'm so thankful for my husband unpacking and assembling our things while I was teaching -- the Army gives you ten days off to get settled. I'm glad that we started even when not having Internet yet was a challenge. We had to be in my closet to use the connection from the church, on our tablet and/or my phone. So then it got much better with our own Internet, and our computer back. I love teaching our kids and not having them gone from 8:30-3:15! It has been fun to learn/relearn some things along with them. They have more time to be creative . . . I like everything about it. <a href="http://thefamilyschoolonline.org/">The Family School</a> is excellent. Another family in the townhouses homeschools too, and we have had one play date with their boys so far after the day she came over to meet us. It's funny that we met through a facebook group instead of the little neighborhood. They attend a different Christian church. During the play date I was home by myself, which is always nice. . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When we had been going to our new ward for a couple of weeks both S and L got invited to birthday parties on the same day. This picture shows the ballerina that L decorated at Avery's party. </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-65906412010912542892015-06-08T18:32:00.001-06:002015-06-08T20:22:08.685-06:0023 questions to ask kids about their mom<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of my Katie friends shared this a few days ago. Our kids (First Girl and Second Girl but I didn't have Third Girl do it) and I had so much fun with it right before bedtime!</span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These were some of my favorite answers. I asked the 8 1/2- year-old the questions quietly because she was first and I didn't want the almost-6-year-old to hear before it was her turn.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">First Girl: </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When you make </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> laugh, it makes </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">me</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> laugh.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Second Girl:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">When she tickles me. You don’t really do that much, though. Well, I do it to C a lot.</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[I like to think I also say things that are funny. I do. And they laugh.]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First Girl:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m not sure, ‘cause you like lots of things. . . . Like, like, you like to play with us and read your books and go to church.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Second Girl</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I don’t know. [Think about things I do. What do I like to do?] Cook.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">First Girl:</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I dunno, ‘cause I’m not there. [Do you wanna guess?] Um, maybe watch shows with Daddy?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Second Girl:</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Make presents for me, like at Christmas you made those presents for me. [You mean wrap ‘em?] Yeah, wrap ‘em.</span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="line-height: 22.0799999237061px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First Girl: </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Um . . . mmm . . . helping me and L and C</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Second Girl: </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Um, I just said that, didn’t I.</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> [the one before about what I'd be famous for -- she said, "A famous cooker?]</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-d169dac3-d5b9-2b69-7bef-7a25bcbbfe86"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Second Girl: Um, clean the dishes. That’s one of the jobs you do . . . I couldn’t really think of it because you don’t </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">go</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to work like Daddy does.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First Girl: </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Um, I think 12 or 13 or 14. [I explained.] Now that I think about that, that’s pretty young, like Erika.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Second Girl guessed 20, but I was 27.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-77072010625346616102015-04-19T10:26:00.000-06:002015-09-20T21:06:01.282-06:00a little on faith, dreams, lists, and being musical<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is what I posted in a facebook group and it's how I have been feeling the last few days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is an exciting time to be on the earth. I definitely believe that "the future is as bright as [my] faith."</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I believe we are in the last days, with both righteousness and wickedness increasing. </span>There
<i>are</i> things that frustrate me, and my husband and I each have our own ups and downs,
but I have a lot of hope ("<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/search?lang=eng&query=%22hope+through%22&x=0&y=0">hope through</a> the atonement of Christ"), and know that "if ye are prepared ye shall not fear." I want to help people, most of all my husband who is going through hard stuff,
and our children, whom I love so much. I have big dreams for us. I want to do a lot and learn a lot. I want to be who my <a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/patriarchal-blessings?lang=eng">patriarchal blessing</a> says I can be. I want to shine!</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was glad that my husband was with us for this April <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference?lang=eng">General Conference</a>, not working that Saturday or Sunday. Another way I have been blessed with more closeness to the Spirit is through my #360byudevotionalsin2015 project I began on January 5th. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's really easy to find BYU devotionals from BYUSpeeches on YouTube. </span>I listen to about one per day and I'm keeping a list of them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Another list I updated today was <a href="http://shboogoo.blogspot.com/p/books-i-have-read.html">my list of books I have read</a> this year. I'm re-reading the manual from my <a href="http://cappa.net/">CAPPA</a> postpartum doula training, but since I didn't read every word when I got it, it's not on my list yet. I have about three other nonfiction books I am working on also, but mostly one called <i>Fasting -- and Eating -- for Health</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just yesterday I finished <i>A Natural Woman: A Memoir</i>, which singer-songwriter Carole King wrote. I didn't know much about Carole King before this, and now I want to become familiar with more of her music. It was an impulse library check-out as I walked past books on CD -- and it turned out that I was checking it out two days before her birthday! I listened as I cleaned the kitchen, and I think it took a few weeks, but I went through the last few discs, of twelve, pretty quickly. I'm impressed by a lot of the things she has done, including homeschooling, "encourag[ing] the best in people," caring about the Earth, and writing music while she had kids. I composed three piano solos, but all between the ages of 14 and 18, and none since then except for little songs with my kids, and I have not written those down. I thought about doing so the other day, but then forgot, so it's gone from my mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Here's a little of what I wrote down from Carole's memoir. In probably the first chapter she said, "the first piece of furniture in my parents' home was a piano." I really liked the last part of the final chapter. She was talking about her mind jumping from one thought to the next as she was performing for an audience. She realized that she had thought music was keeping her from having a normal life, but then while performing understood that "for me, music is normal life."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm very confident with music, sightreading, and performing. I was able to be in our ward's talent show last month, and today I will play piano for a few ladies who will sing in sacrament meeting. The song is <i>Oh, How Lovely Was The morning</i> -- a new (2005) tune to the LDS hymn <i>Joseph Smith's First Prayer</i>. Some of those big dreams I have for my life are related to music. It's part of normal life for me as well.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-11231120899019299692015-03-27T09:46:00.002-06:002015-03-27T09:46:09.910-06:00what 3-year-old C said to me today<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This morning after my husband left to take First Girl and Second Girl to school, I closed the door, turned to Third Girl, and said like I do nearly every week day, "It's [C] and Mommy time!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">C said, "Yayyyyy!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">me: Do you love C and Mommy time?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">C (smiling): Yes! You're so adorable. I just want to eat you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yep, we are so happy when we're together. I was away in another room to make this blog post, but actually played a video from facebook first, and then I could hear her crying. She wanted me to sit and watch Signing Time with her. I did, arms around her the whole time. It felt so good.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-53670483967692263322015-03-20T22:39:00.002-06:002015-03-21T07:51:59.238-06:00unfinished posts and some pictures<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Since the last time I published was January 1st (!) and March is 2/3 over (somehow), I thought you might be interested to know about my unfinished blog posts. Just neglected drafts. I think I saw <a href="http://verymom.com/">Jessica</a> do this same kind of post -- the kind of post you are currently reading -- at least once. So these are the names of some posts that I may not ever finish.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>cloth diapering in a small apartment </i>(I have pictures somewhere; I sometimes dried them in laundry baskets, on the grass between our apartment and the street and parking spaces. Blogger shows a 2012 date for this!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <i>Toxin & Toxin</i> (I had read this <a href="http://thefeministbreeder.com/how-i-discovered-i-was-using-toxic-baby-products/">http://thefeministbreeder.com/how-i-discovered-i-was-using-toxic-baby-products/</a> in 2011, but unfortunately only those with a TFB Membership can read it now.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>mommy brain</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>C, age two to two-and-a-half </i>(she is now three)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i> </i><br />Okay, I did look through my list of published posts from 2014. I didn't share very many pictures. For now, here are a few from last fall. My brother-in-law's wedding in September was perfect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm really grateful that I was able to go to the <a href="https://www.lds.org/church/temples/why-we-build-temples?lang=eng">temple</a> by myself tonight and wrote some thoughts in my journal. Heavenly Father and his Son love me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm also thinking about the friends I have made in the last almost-seven months since we moved here. I will be seeing some at meetings soon, related to my future postpartum doula business I am working on. I have to complete the certification. It'll be fun and satisfying, and flexible (my own business, my own schedule) so I won't be away from my family too much.<br /><i> </i><br /><br /><i> </i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-25663546742853877712015-01-01T23:40:00.001-07:002015-01-01T23:45:23.664-07:00how I started 2015<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's past my bedtime, on the first day of the year. I am frustrated that I was trying to cut or undo something and the whole draft I'd written a few hours ago disappeared! Well, I'll start over. :0)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My friend Shelly, whose kids I babysit twice a week, had a fun New Year's Eve party with healthy food. The five of us went, so my husband was able to meet the others that I had met at a potluck back in August (he worked that Saturday). I didn't already know Amy and Nate, though. All five families including us brought our kids, who played on scooters and decorated hats while most of the adults played Five Crowns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What I really want to write about was the great things about this January 1st. Right at midnight we were home in bed and had a quick kiss, then for fifteen minutes we continued what we were each doing. He watched videos on the iPad, and I finished <a href="http://shboogoo.blogspot.com/p/books-i-have-read.html">reading</a> my book: <i>Christmas Jars</i> by Jason F. Wright.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Soon after I woke up I was kind of depressed for a minute about the way I feel in the morning and all the time. Chronic pain. I didn't cry and snowball it like I did yesterday, though. It's so good that D and I have each other. We've talked about what we want to do this year and it will be good. For example, we are determined to pay off our debt. Anyway, knowing it's now 2015, I remembered that I had thought that in 2014 I would get rid of my constant headache. I did try more than a few different tests and treatments and stuff throughout the year but I need to be patient with what I'm currently doing (my doctor prescribed myofasical release, the medication gabapentin, and flonase (I don't think the last two are doing anything for me, at least not yet)). And I am going to keep searching, too. Neil Nathan, M.D.'s book <i>Healing Is Possible: New Hope for Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Persistent Pain, and Other Chronic Illnesses</i> is giving me some things to think about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A little bit after that, I played <a href="http://shboogoo.blogspot.com/search?q=practicing">my piano</a> for the first time this year. I chose <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngSsaSimi8A">Worthy Is The Lamb That Was Slain / Amen</a> from Handel's <i>Messiah</i>. I bought my copy of the book while in college, for a performance with hundreds of other people; I will never forget that experience!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A few days ago was also really nice, when I played the piano to wake up our kids. That day it was the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASbxBzez-X8">suite from Forrest Gump</a>. Many years ago I had to tape the spine of this sheet music to hold it together. I played it in a talent show when I was in junior high.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Let's see . . . also, I let the girls watch Netflix a lot today while D was working. I watched some of my own as I cleaned the kitchen and stuff (using the iPad while they had the TV on). The show I'm binge watching is Gilmore Girls. I never saw any of it until the middle of December. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the morning I pondered and wrote down some things I need to do (some of them are resolutions) and had some good gospel study time. I worked out, took a long shower, and eventually we accomplished our chore checklist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Oh! Third Girl made me laugh harder than I had in a long time. She can be pretty funny, but doesn't do this kind of thing as much when she's away from home. You won't fully appreciate it because you can't hear her tone, and I don't remember it all, but that's okay. I was with her as she sat on the potty. It was bedtime, when we always make her go, and I said that I wanted to hear her pee. Then we talked about something else, or I kissed her knees. Then suddenly she said in her voice that's higher than her normal voice, "You hear someping?" And I thought she meant her peeing, but she quickly says, "Butterflies?" As if they even make a sound! Oh, man, it was hilarious.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-33198040864697947212014-12-19T23:14:00.001-07:002014-12-19T23:14:24.893-07:00kid sweetness<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My heart is full from so much kid sweetness today. (And this week, I babysat our neighbor's 2-year-old and 5-month-old one day, and I took care of our newborn nephew overnight last night because his mommy was in the hospital with retained placenta and his daddy works graveyard shifts. I've also had fun for the last few weeks, with my Wednesday and Friday job: watching my friend's girls who are 7 and 2). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />So, this morning when it was just the two of us, Third Girl wanted to cuddle (which involved me pretending to sleep, and her laughing, and both of us laughing) on our bed. In the late afternoon, she helped me cook. I'm pretty sure I forgot to write down something adorable that Third Girl said, but t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">he main thing I wanted to write down was this</span>:<br /><br />Second Girl was going to serve herself more dinner, but First Girl acted sad because she had wanted to do it for her. <br /><br />Second Girl: "Okay. I just want my sister to be happy."<br /><br />Me: "Why are you guys so sweet?"<br /><br />Second Girl: "Because we're your daughters."<br /><br />First Girl: "And you're the best mom."</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-83844076005370336332014-11-30T11:50:00.002-07:002014-11-30T11:50:20.785-07:00Scripture Sunday: "I engraved that which is pleasing unto God"<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I read again a chapter in the scriptures; here are some parts that stood out to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Lord told a man named Nephi to leave so that his brothers wouldn't kill him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I really really like the last section, where Nephi wrote about the importance of writing things down. Verse 32 is my favorite:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">He is such a great example of obedience!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You can read the whole chapter (2 Nephi 5) from the Book of Mormon here: <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/5?lang=eng">https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/5?lang=eng</a> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-59379182314399132622014-11-16T07:30:00.000-07:002014-11-16T07:30:00.197-07:00almond art<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Second Girl came up with all of this herself, a few days ago. The last part of her lunch was some almonds. I did not even think of making them into something, but she sure did. And I was in the kitchen, not with her in the dining room, when she announced, "Look, Mommy! I made a cross, like the cross Jesus died on. It's a good thing almonds are brown."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And here's a picture of her from a couple weeks ago, having fun with her <a href="http://shboogoo.blogspot.com/2009/07/circle-of-life.html">great-grandma's</a> bracelets!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-12014153298364272592014-08-19T18:33:00.002-06:002014-08-19T18:33:39.653-06:00new blogs<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have some projects I want to work on. Yep, even though we will be done moving in about 10 days, I started one of those projects. I will have a nutritarian food blog, but it doesn't have anything published yet. Here's the one I did begin (be sure to read the About page):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://thetestimonywhichyehaveborne.wordpress.com/">http://thetestimonywhichyehaveborne.wordpress.com/</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-85186544619862003082014-08-11T20:22:00.001-06:002014-08-11T22:00:31.284-06:00"I'm just vehwee busy"<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I walked toward the living room tonight and saw C sitting in this box. I absolutely HAD to take a picture and write down what she said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Yeah. I'm vehwee tired."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">(I can sometimes relate. Not only was my husband gone with the Army for 2.5 weeks, but the temp job I was able to do forced me to stay up past 2 a.m. Saturday when he was at drill. And we are moving this month! We found an amazing deal on a condo to rent. It's exciting, but thinking about the packing we will do makes me tired. There are some other really good things and changes happening in our family and our families, too (no, I am not pregnant). I'm happy. "Come what may, and love it.")</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-90917996250064266872014-07-25T10:07:00.000-06:002019-07-23T15:31:09.078-06:00my friend Andrea<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Last week I found something in my old Bible -- the one I got when I was ten and that I want to get the inserts from to transfer to my new one. What I found was the program for my friend Andrea's funeral. I saw that she passed away July 22nd, three years ago. Her husband had checked on her when she was asleep, but her spirit was gone. . . . I have memories of her in <a href="https://www.lds.org/callings/young-women?lang=eng">Young Women</a> with me on Sundays and on Tuesday nights -- a rock climbing activity stands out to me -- and at camps. I think "service" when I think of her; we served each other. She needed a lot of service from her family because she was born with spina bifida and had to use a wheelchair. One way she served was with her great smile.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">See? Great smile.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I love the way she kept in touch with everybody after high school. I mean <i>everybody</i>, because it seems that she was friends with all types of people. She called me regularly to chat from about 2004 on. I learned at her funeral that she had about 200 friends that she called probably at least once a month, but I felt special to her. I didn't always know what to talk about when she called, and she sometimes asked me questions that were hard to answer and explain, like about what it was like being pregnant and being a mom (I don't remember specifics). She said that she wanted to know because she wouldn't be able to be a mom. I remember telling her one evening that I was making bean burgers, and she had never heard of bean burgers but didn't say anything negative. She wanted to understand people, I think, and she is an example of how to listen and "love thy neighbor as thyself." She was a sweetheart and so is the man she married.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I also think about the fact that three years before Andrea passed away, her brother did. I attended his funeral to show support to her. I felt the Spirit and love very strongly at both funerals. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her parents are sure going to have a wonderful reunion after many years apart from their kids. (They lost another son, too, and I actually don't know that story but I think he might have been stillborn.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was neat that on July 22nd a familiar song came and played in my mind -- a song that Kenneth Cope wrote about a different girl named Andrea. I think my friend Andrea saw beyond the stars, too. I'm looking forward to seeing her run or do cartwheels or whatever she wants when she is resurrected, with a laugh and a smile on her face! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You can hear part of the song here: <a href="http://kennethcope.com/albums/stories-from-edens-garden/">http://kennethcope.com/albums/stories-from-edens-garden/ </a></span></span><br />
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(written by Kenneth Cope)</div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">—for Andrea Goodman and family—</i></div>
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Andrea—you wear the smile of paradise</div>
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Andrea—you see beyond the stars</div>
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Ever reminding me that angels aren’t that far</div>
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My Andrea</div>
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Andrea—you wear the wings of innocence</div>
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It’s like you don’t belong here on the ground</div>
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But then there might be some of us who’d never reach the clouds</div>
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Without Andrea</div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And if day turns into gray</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If hope hides far away</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I know an angel I can go to for a smile</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And that haze that has me blind</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Will fade from my mind</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just from the thought of you</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My Andrea</i></div>
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Andrea—you’re hoping for a better world</div>
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You long to be with Jesus in the sky</div>
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And I believe you’re going to see what you desire</div>
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My Andrea</div>
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Andrea—we feared that we had lost you</div>
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Gone without a chance to say “Good-bye”</div>
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But thanks to God you’ve come back to stay a while</div>
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My Andrea</div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And if day turns into gray</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If hope hides far away</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I know an angel I can go to for a smile</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And that haze that has me blind</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Will fade from my mind</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just from the thought of you</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My Andrea</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When day turns into gray</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When hope hides far away</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then I remember how I feel when you are near</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And my heart starts to rise</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And light fills these eyes</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All from the thought of you</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From the love of you</i></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My Andrea</i></div>
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Andrea—teach me the smile of paradise</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-41047692524240375322014-06-05T16:44:00.000-06:002014-06-06T10:42:24.987-06:00a Throwback Thursday collage<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have been doing some pondering today, and I have felt joy. I have been thinking about new friendships, friendship in general, and ways to serve. Those thoughts and those things make me happy. I overheard two smiling mothers as they passed each other outside of First Girl's school: "How are you?" "I don't even know." "Yeah, seriously." For some reason hearing that made me happy, too. I ate garlicky brussels sprouts before eating the rest of my breakfast. I did some laundry (the kitchen still needs some work). I ran two miles in twenty one minutes while our younger daughters played near me in the fitness center. I've been praying more lately and feeling more hope. And the book I'm reading, <i><a href="http://thegiftofgivinglife.com/">The Gift of Giving Life</a></i>, has given me a better "big picture" perspective about life. When I was looking at twitter, where I don't have a photo across the top (I dislike their new look), I thought maybe I would make a collage for that. I love how it turned out but actually decided on something simpler for my twitter page. It was really fun to look at some of our older photos and to be grateful for those memories. So this is a #tbt -- Throwback Thursday. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The sheet music in the background is for the song we danced to at our wedding reception in 2004, but I started to learn how to play the piano when I was seven.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(I love Jerome Kern and the sweet lyrics, and loved having Roger play the piano!) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I still treasure the feeling of being in the Los Angeles temple with my husband in 2006 when I was pregnant; that was a wonderful night.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The top middle photo of the collage is from 2008 when I ran a 10k. The bottom left was taken in 2011, and the others are a little more recent. C is here twice simply because the newborn picture reminds me of when each of our children were newborns, and the beauty of each new life. I always wanted to be a mom. The collage represents some of me, my life, and what is special to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-48022566745539739292014-05-20T22:55:00.001-06:002014-05-21T08:28:55.972-06:00a tender conversation between First Girl and Second Girl<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our kids had kind of a hard day today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the morning I could tell First Girl needed to keep sleeping and go to school late, if at all. I wasn't sure if she was getting a bit of a cold from her sisters. I think she slept until about 9 a.m. She's usually up by 8, which I know is not very early, but I have gotten in a habit of finishing their bedtime routine after 9 p.m. We didn't rush to eat breakfast. I saw that she didn't have a runny nose, and I didn't hear her cough (but Third Girl definitely did) . . . Anyway, she wanted to go to school, and we dropped her off at 11:30. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">An hour later Second Girl was hurrying to the van so I could drive her to preschool, and she fell onto the sidewalk and scraped her elbow. That was after I'd already held her and calmed her down because she didn't really want to go for some reason. I know she enjoys her friends there and explained that she only has two weeks left in that class. Well, then she got another owie before dinner. It was strange how it happened. In the public restroom in <a href="http://deseretindustries.org/?lang=eng">D.I</a>. she was raising and lowering the diaper changing table for fun. It wouldn't stay up (closed) and she ended up getting hit with it right between her eye and her temple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">First Girl, being the sweet sister and daughter that she is, helped me by trying to make Second girl happy while I tried on clothes. Oh, and we were all crammed into the little dressing room with the shopping cart, which I should have left out of the room, and they were hungry, and Second Girl wanted to watch Strawberry Shortcake (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1815377/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">this one</a>). In spite of the unpleasant things, they had this tender conversation afterward. It warmed my heart and I am grateful that it wasn't the only time they've talked about the gospel. I am so proud of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">First Girl: Aren't you glad we chose Heavenly Father's plan?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Second Girl: [Yeah.] I'm glad we didn't get <i>real</i> tattoos [at the international fair last night] because Heavenly Father doesn't want us to get real tattoos.*</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">First Girl: Imagine how it would be not to be able to run and --</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">First Girl: Yeah, and imagine how it would be if you couldn't. . . . </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Second Girl: And we wouldn't be able to be with our mommy.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">First Girl: If we had followed Satan we wouldn't have a family . . . Let's not talk about that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Second Girl: It's okay to talk about Jesus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">*<a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/tattooing?lang=eng">https://www.lds.org/topics/tattooing?lang=eng</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-84775265383590687552014-05-09T15:51:00.003-06:002014-05-09T15:51:57.259-06:00C at 15-23 months old<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I shared a <a href="http://shboogoo.blogspot.com/2013/07/video-toddler-walking-with-shopping-cart.html">video</a> of her last summer, but it's been longer since I wrote <a href="http://shboogoo.blogspot.com/2013/04/cs-fourteenth-month.html">an update</a> on C, also known online as Third Girl. Even then it wasn't current. This post has been a draft for a <i>long</i> time. I kept changing the title of it because another month had passed so her age was different. :-) I've kind of missed blogging about our children and sharing some of our many pictures and videos. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This affectionate little girl is . . . </span><br />
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<b>Walking</b>! This is a major accomplishment so I'm putting it first. C spent months cruising or walking as she held someone's hands (and still bum-scooting to go where she wanted). Then she was walking around -- not just cruising -- since a Sunday in July about a week before turning 19 months. Before that she would do maybe seven steps toward a chair or something, but since that Sunday she was great at walking and almost never fell down. She was so cute when she and I looked at each other while she walked, and she grinned because I was so proud of her. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I cancelled her eye appointment that was for that week. (Our family doctor had thought maybe her weird right eye -- not quite a "lazy eye" -- was making walking hard. We did see the eye doctor first in May 2013, then again in November. He said it's getting better and we should just see him again a year later.)</span><br />
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<b>Growing.</b> At her 18-month appointment she weighed 18 pounds and a few ounces, which put her in the 3rd percentile, and was 28 inches tall. At 23 months she weighed 20.5 pounds.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-44570730361956329362014-05-05T14:48:00.000-06:002014-05-05T14:48:07.420-06:00"You're such a tool"<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's a post I've had as a draft for a while. . . . Along with "I can't wrap my head around that" and probably others, "You're such a tool" is a saying I don't like. I've wondered why people started saying this. How did it come to be an insult?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I looked it up online, I saw that someone <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100622141727AAKPlpi">on Yahoo! Answers</a> said, "A 'tool' is someone who does not make decisions or statements for themselves. Rather, they parrot a party line and act more on what others may think of them than on what is right." Hmm. <i>What do you think, or what would be your definition of someone who is a tool?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I feel like "you're a tool" should be the complete opposite of an insult. I think we can be tools for good, for our Heavenly Father. It looks like in all of the verses in the Bible and other scriptures the word "tool" simply means a tool that you make something with. But I love the writing that uses the word "instrument".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we have been made instruments in the hands of God to bring about this great work [<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/26.3?lang=eng">source</a>]</span></blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-91563532656159341302014-03-30T06:00:00.000-06:002014-03-30T06:00:06.445-06:00rainbow jeans from Nana<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A few weeks ago, I had to take photos of C in the cute jeans that her Nana gave to her (for either her birthday or Christmas; I don't remember). They have a warm, purple layer inside the denim, and rainbows on the back pockets. I also really like this striped hoodie sweater that we had kept after First Girl wore it. I don't know if Second Girl ever wore it. Since she was born during summer instead of winter it might not have fit at the right time.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-3853813905411388962014-03-16T23:06:00.000-06:002014-03-17T07:56:28.488-06:00winter "denotes there is a God"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container tr_bq" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Winter will technically be over in less than a week, but it's still cold here -- at least when it's the beginning of the day, the end of the day, or the wind is blowing. I want to make the effort to enjoy and live in the present more. Part of being in the present is appreciating the current season rather than wanting to be in the next one already. Winter actually felt shorter to me this time around. . . .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Here is what inspired me to write about the symbolism I see in winter: One morning in December, I think the week before Christmas, I drove our minivan out of the parking spot to leave our apartment complex. It was time for First Girl to go to school. I went almost to the first turn, and then pulled over to the side and stopped. Since I had not parked in our covered spot, there was frost, and I had to scrape more of it off the van's windows. I told the girls that I needed to see the road and everything well so that I could be a safe driver, and that the sunshine might help warm the car and melt the frost a tiny bit faster. I thought, "The sun melts frost, and the Son melts spiritual frost." My heart often feels like it should be warmer. I don't want to be hard-hearted or prideful, but sometimes I am. I know that when we repent, partaking of the sacrament each week cleanses us and removes the darkness. I want more light and I want to be more like Him, the Creator and the light of the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elder Neal A. Maxwell <a href="http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=625">said in a BYU devotional</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ultimate wisdom enables us to see Jesus as the Light of the World, but, further, we also come to realize that it is by his light that we are to see everything else! The gospel’s bright and illuminating light thereby helps us see God, ourselves, others, the world, and the universe more correctly and more deeply.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That day in December was before I knew much about the movie <i>Frozen</i>, which we still haven't seen but plan to, and the various interpretations adults have had about it. So, the Spirit was teaching me. I didn't get the idea from anyone else, they just know, too, what the Savior can do. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"There is a redeemer who can melt our frozen hearts," </span>Stephen Sizer wrote <a href="http://www.stephensizer.com/2013/12/frozen-a-story-to-melt-your-heart/">in his article</a> about <i>Frozen</i>. The pure love of Christ can do a lot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then on March 1st something else touched
me. We were at our eight-year-old neighbor boy's baptism. It had been a
difficult morning getting the kids ready without my husband, and when
we arrived the priesthood holder was baptizing the boy. We barely missed
seeing it. But even though my kids weren't behaving during the talks, I am glad I was there. Sister Christensen gave a great talk (I'd like to read the whole thing) about the gift of the Holy Ghost. She mentioned that when we feel darkness
and coldness in our lives we can pray for the Holy Ghost to comfort us. "Darkness and coldness" stood out to me. Sometimes I don't look to the light (by earnestly praying to my Heavenly Father), or I have negative, even unkind "icy" </span> thoughts that I shouldn't let stay for as long as I do. I hope my little family sees warmth and light in me, like I see in them when I look at their faces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I believe winter denotes there is a God, because all of nature does. In the Book of Mormon, Alma 30:43-44 says:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And now Korihor said unto Alma: If thou wilt show me a sign, that I may be convinced that there is a God, yea, show unto me that he hath power, and then will I be convinced of the truth of thy words.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But Alma said unto him: Thou hast had signs enough; will ye tempt your God? Will ye say, Show unto me a sign, when ye have the testimony of all these thy brethren, and also all the holy prophets? The scriptures are laid before thee, yea, and all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(I'm sorry if I'm not connecting these thoughts well. I'm publishing the post anyway.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When it was the middle of winter, we had snow that stayed on the ground. Don't you love the snow when it's new, pure white, and slightly sparkly? It reminded me that because of Jesus Christ, "though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow." Each winter I get to see ho<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">w white that really is.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I also absolutely love the song Every Season by Nichole Nordeman. I first heard it on <a href="http://kennethcope.com/albums/hear-my-praise/">this Kenneth Cope album</a>. Nichole wrote:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Every evening sky, an invitation<br />To trace the patterned stars<br />And early in July, a celebration<br />For freedom that is ours<br />And I notice you in children's games<br />In those who watch them from the shade<br />Every drop of sun is full of fun and wonder<br />You are summer<br /><br />And even when the trees have just surrendered<br />To the harvest time<br />Forfeiting their leaves in late September<br />And sending us inside<br />Still I notice you when change begins<br />And I am braced for colder winds<br />I will offer thanks for what has been and what's to come<br />You are autumn<br /><br />And everything in time and under Heaven<br />Finally falls asleep<br />Wrapped in blankets white, all creation<br />Shivers underneath<br />And still I notice you when branches crack<br />And in my breath on frosted glass<br />Even now in death, you open doors for life to enter<br />You are winter<br /><br />And everything that's new has bravely surfaced<br />Teaching us to breathe<br />And what was frozen through is newly purposed<br />Turning all things green<br />So it is with you and how you make me new<br />With every season's change<br />And so it will be as you are re-creating me<br />Summer, autumn, winter, spring</span></blockquote>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2055017199412519312.post-54031644273168362432013-12-08T20:25:00.000-07:002013-12-08T20:25:11.587-07:00grateful thoughts<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I knew this day was coming. My husband and I have now lived in this apartment longer than we've lived anywhere else together. (We didn't want to be here this long, but Heavenly Father has helped us change our attitudes.) I like figuring things out with dates. It's interesting how many times the same duration of time has been significant for us. Let me explain. As of yesterday we have lived here for <b>two years and seven months</b>. We had been married for two years and seven months when we became parents. We lived in that condo -- Shboogoo's first home -- for two years and seven months. She was two years and seven months old when Second Girl was born. My husband spent almost that long living on the opposite side of the world during his deployments, and there is almost that much space between Second Girl and Third Girl. They are just over two years and six months apart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I feel grateful today:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For these memories, my husband, and our children. For the <a href="http://www.lds.org/topics/laying-on-of-hands">priesthood blessing</a> he gave me last week when I had a very bad headache. For my Savior and His <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugV6QGcafEE&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLD60B23A37F523BE3">birth</a>, death, and resurrection. For <a href="http://www.lds.org/broadcasts/watch/christmas-devotional/2013/12?cid=HPFR120613187&lang=eng">Christmas devotionals</a> and songs that are about Him. That I can sing and play the piano and serve in that way. For ups along with the downs. For the lessons that I hope I have learned (and re-learn) while we've been here, and the qualities I hope I am developing. For friends. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For the good that is online, including </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a blog post called </span><a href="http://birthfaith.org/spiritual-stuff/hope-for-dark-times" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hope for Dark Times</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For my first </span><a href="http://tofw.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Time Out For Women</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, and my sister's friend who told us we could attend it for free because of their scholarship. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm grateful for what </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I</b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> have. I don't have some other woman's nice shoes, ability to decorate her home and do her hair well, or strong flat belly -- but I have First Girl, Second Girl, and Third Girl (I think their real names when I think about this). I was not in a good mood this morning, and I'm still going through a hard time. But I am so glad that Heavenly Father is patient with me. I am grateful that I felt an abundance of the Holy Spirit during church, that I remembered personal spiritual blessings from the past, that I have a ward family, and that all of this strengthened me today. I love this verse from the Book of Mormon:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><a href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/24.14?lang=eng#13">And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as witnesses for me hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions.</a></i></span></blockquote>
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