Today is…Oct 24-28, 2011

Gospel Message We learned about Showing Love for our Parents. We talked about what parents do for us, what we can do for our parents, and what our Heavenly Father does for us and what we can do for Him: Interestingly, the answers were fairly similar. The constant reminder to show love every day made […]



Today is…Oct 17-21

Gospel Lesson This week we focused on gaining a desire to be pure and righteous. We talked about what it means to be pure. I gave the boys some salt to hold, and we talked about how white and clean it was: We added pepper. And talked about how sometimes we make choices that make […]



Today is…October 10-14, 2011

Monday morning I called the boys over for our Gospel Message. Giant said he’d come in a minute…which made me a little grumpy. My children should come when they’re called, correct? When I got up to haul him over encourage him to come quickly to the carpet, I discovered that he’d been working on his […]



Today is…October 3-7 2011

  The Gospel Message we studied this week was on serving others. We wrote ways in which we can help others and others help us. We reenacted the story of the Good Samaritan (Ettin was VERY disturbed to see mommy lying sick on the floor. “Mommy, you t’ant do dat! You t’ant be on da […]



FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!

  Summer school was fun—lots of swimming, playing outside, gardening, and so forth. Now, it’s time to get serious. Mommy has schedules! And plans! and lessons! I woke up this morning almost as excited as I would have been if it had been my OWN first day of school for the new school year…I LOVE […]