Merry, Merry Christmas!

Well, we jumped from remodeling the kitchen to full-fledged Christmas preparations.  As the mother and tone-setter for the family, I proceeded to lose my mind and take my family with me!!  There are entirely too many things to do in December.  It sounds innocuous enough – just a class party or work party or band concert – none of them […]

Losing My Life to Save It

In Mark 8:35 we read:  “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.” – Christ and the Children For awhile now I’ve been trying to get at the source of the anger I feel when I’m dealing with Andrew’s difficult behaviors.  I […]

Callings

This was my first week as the ward Primary pianist (Primary is my church’s organization for children).  I’ve been practicing for almost a month.  The tricky part is that there are probably 50 songs in the songbook that I could be asked to play in any given Sunday – songs that the children are learning, favorites that they always request, […]