St. Patrick’s Day FHE
Learn about the real St. Patrick instead of leprechauns and rainbows for your St. Patrick’s Day!
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Life with Three Kids
Featured Photo Credit Lavon Maiersperger. Aren’t they cute?? Since having Maeli 6 weeks ago I’ve been frequently asked what it’s like to have 3 kids. This was my day today- Woke up to get Sam ready for school. Laid out all his clothes and then went to get myself ready. Came back 10 minutes later […]
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Lessons from Job
Featured image: Job Rebuked by His Friends, by William Blake. Image courtesy of Wikipedia This week I read the Book of Job as part of my scripture reading. A few things really impressed me about the book that I wanted to share. The first is that this man, who was known to be a just […]
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The Pain of Sin
This blog post explores the concept of sin as a form of self-inflicted pain, emphasizing the transformative journey from sin to redemption. It redefines commandments as blessings, underscoring the idea that disobedience leads to pain, while obedience and repentance bring joy and healing.
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Primary Secretary Resources: Part 4: Reminder Wristbands and Conducting Sheets
Ok guys, not to toot my own horn or anything, but the resources that I’m handing off to you in this post are sheer and utter brilliance. There. I said it. TOOT! But seriously, as I was preparing these files to share them I was actually sad that I won’t ever get to really use […]
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Primary Secretary Resources: Part 3: Lesson Schedules
This will be a pretty short post, but I wanted to share this. I’m pretty picky about formatting and paper. Mostly, I don’t believe in paper and like to avoid using it whenever possible. But when I do actually print things out I like them to fit nicely on a single piece of paper. So, […]
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Primary Secretary Resources: Part 2: Reminder Emails
Ok, so I’m sorry that this installment doesn’t have any cool downloads associated with it, but this is just a tip that I have for those running the Primary. I hate calling people. Like really, really, really hate it. I always feel like I get flustered or call at the wrong time and they’re eating […]
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Primary Secretary Resources: Part 1: Birthday Cards
On Sunday I was released as the secretary from our ward’s primary presidency. It came as a bit of a surprise since we had thought we were going to be in for three years and were just getting geared up for our third year. But apparently it was our time to go on to other […]
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Respecting Our Bodies FHE
Lately we’ve been having issues in our family with respecting other people’s personal space and being kind to others. So I decided we needed to have an FHE lesson on respecting our bodies and other people’s bodies. I looked around the internet and didn’t find anything that quite fit what I was looking for so […]
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Mooooother I love you, Moooooother I doooo
Today is Mother’s Day and across the world Primary children will be getting up in sacrament meeting to sing a song to their mother’s in honor of the day. In our family we have a joke about my mom’s least favorite Mother’s Day Primary Song – Mother, I Love You. If you’ve never heard this […]
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How to Keep Pinterest from Being a Time Suck
We’ve all been there. You’ve gone onto Pinterest to pull up a recipe, or get an idea for FHE… and 2 hours later you realize you’re still there, pinning a million ideas that you’ll never get around to doing. Dinner’s still not made, you’re no closer to actually having an FHE lesson prepared and you […]
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Home Dedication FHE
If you don’t want to read through my whole explanation of how this FHE lesson came to be, or my personal suggestions for making this a little more special feel free to click here to skip to where you can download the lesson outline and PowerPoint. I won’t be offended. Ok, well I might be offended, […]
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Suck it up princess, walk it off!
So today is Throwback Thursday. I don’t usually post something for this, but I was thinking of a story that I don’t think I’ve recorded before, and I figured it was worth doing. If you want more of a reason for this post, sorry, you’re not getting one. In May of 2006 I was […]
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Easter FHE
For Christmas this last year I put together 12 FHE lessons for my little sister’s family. I put together a lesson plan for each month with visual aids, recommended opening/closing hymns, an activity and a recommended treat (I couldn’t exactly put together 12 months of treats and hope they’d still be good at the end […]
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Preparing to Serve
In preparation for our upcoming General Conference in a couple weeks I’ve decided to re-listen to all of the talks from October’s conference. I haven’t made it very far – I only just finished the second talk from the Saturday morning session. Yesterday though I started by listening to President Monson’s opening remarks where he lowered […]
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How He Loved Them
For Christmas this last year my family went back to my parents’ place to celebrate the holiday with my family. We were there for the Sunday before Christmas and got to listen to the bishop give a few thoughts on the holiday. He told a story of his family from when he was a young […]
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The War in Heaven
This week we had a family home evening lesson about birthdays as we’re entering birthday season in our household (Eric’s birthday was yesterday, his dad’s birthday is on Friday, Sam’s birthday is on Monday and Daniel’s will be in April). The lesson pointed out that part of having a birthday is that we’re celebrating the decision […]
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You Are Not Alone
Last night I was reading in the Old Testament and came across a passage that I found very interesting. I was reading in 1 Kings about Elijah. After he performed his great miracle of having a wet sacrifice consumed by fire he by the Lord, he is left alone, fleeing from Queen Jezebel who desires […]
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The Miracle of the Cody Muffins
Today my brother Cody enters the Missionary Training Center for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to begin his two year mission preaching the gospel in Spanish to the people in the area of Morristown, New Jersey. I am so proud of him. When he opened his mission call I made over 80 […]
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Attitude of Gratitude: 16 December 2012
Recently I landed a contract at Adobe, working in the same department as my wonderful husband Eric. When I was first applying for the job I thought I’d be doing one thing, when I interviewed for the job I understood that I’d be doing something else, and when I finally started the job I realized […]
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