5 Ways to Create an Inviting Home by Linsey Jensen – Invite people over – Be generous – Show interest in others – Be interesting – Don’t stress and ENJOY I LOVE these points made by my cousin Linsey in her blog post. SEE THE WONDERFUL TEXT HERE. Check out their WHOLE site, which is […]
ROAD TRIP 2018 – 26 states (Focus on New England States) I have been in 49 of the United States. Just missing North Dakota! – camped 10 nights in a row, 13 total – drove 6, 920 miles We have our routine. Setting up, cooking and taking down camp is like our “farm.” Our kids
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J.D. is not only surviving, but flourishing. – Giardia off and on for 2 weeks – THE PITS! Eating every healthy thing he can get his hands on, and rebuilding everyday. Lots of electrolytes and protein. (and sugar 🙂 – Seeing some amazing sights – Record is 41 miles hiked in one day. Taking it
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Dear Clark (Elder Shaeffer), Hi! How are you doing? So! I am FINALLY done with the scrap and photo books! I had lots of extra photos that I have divided among the 5 of you and yours are set aside in a nice photo box in your room. You will enjoy going through the photo
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The Book of Mormon, ladies and gentlemen, is the best book on the planet. A week full of service, study, and teaching The Book of Mormon changes lives, mine included. Aside from teaching the investigators we already have, we had a blast serving our bums off setting up chairs for, playing with and taking care
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J.D. (More commonly know on the trail as “Gigante“) has been having a real adventure these past couple of weeks including sickness, new friends and amazing sights. When J.D. called a few days ago, to tell me that he was exhausted from vomiting and diarrhea, I naturally was concerned. We kept in touch over the
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Frosted Brownies by Lorraine Alldredge, my mom 🙂 1/2 t baking powder 1 1/2 c. flour 10 Tbl. cocoa 1 tsp salt 2 tsp vanilla 4 eggs 2 c. sugar 2 cubes butter or margarine I also like to add chocolate chips sometimes (optional) Cream (this means to mix it until it is creamy –
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Last week after having some 25 mile days and even running on the downhill, J.D. began to feel severe pain above one of his knees. After I did some searching on the web and J.D. spoke to his uncle that is a doctor, it appeared that J.D. may be developing some kind of tendinitis. So
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Anyone can correct me or ignore me or add alarm to this. Feel free. I support all families that have more strict rules than we do. Video games, to me, have seemed like a necessary evil. The draw of them would have pulled my kids away from our home – to their friends houses –
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A Musical Mother: Jenny Oaks Baker Jenny shares many wonderful parenting tips in her latest podcast with LDS Perspectives. CLICK HERE to listen. – Work first, play later. “Sometimes we see the reward from working hard and sometimes we don’t and that is okay. Sometimes we get paid for hard work (there is nothing wrong
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