One of my favorite parts of having children is hearing them talk about grown-up topics like getting married, buying a house, etc., but then interpret these adult events through their child-like imaginations. Today as we were driving, D declared: “When I buy a house, it will have a balcony.” K got excited and said, “When [...]
Every parent knows the first big battle among parents with a new baby is to see whether the child’s first words are “da-da” or “ma-ma”. Well score one for daddy this time! The last couple of days L. has discovered his tongue and how it helps to make the da-da sound, and he spends a [...]
This is just a quick post to share some things we’ve learned this last week to help us have good, clean movies to watch. The first is I found the website http://www.kids-in-mind.com, which is like http://www.screenit.com, but better in my opinion. You can read detailed reviews of the nitty gritty details of movies (how many [...]
For Family Home Evening tonight D taught us a great lesson about how Heavenly Father helps us to have light in our lives and how Satan makes it dark. Amazingly, neither Rick nor I planned this lesson for her. Our only part was to help her locate a scripture that had to do with Heavenly [...]
“Hold the Milk” We were just realizing tonight that we have quite a few family quotes that we just love to repeat … and repeat … and repeat. Since I don’t think we can remember all of them right now I will just continue to add to this post as they come to mind. So [...]
This all started with a memory I had of going blueberry picking with our friends, the Bentley’s. Two years ago they introduced us to the Hard Labor Creek blueberry farm. Now Rick is addicted to blueberry pancakes. Thanks for the fun memories! I’ve gotten this from them, so if you will, play along! 1. As [...]
“I want to read the scripture!” “_____, sit down!” “Leave your sister alone” “Pay attention” “Listen to what I am saying” “I don’t want to sing that song!” Asking a question and dazed expressions. Getting off on weird tangents (usually princesses) Do you ever wonder if family home evening should be renamed … like WWF [...]
We definitely love books in our family. Rick and I began our collection of children’s books when D was a baby. Now D can read and K is following the family tradition. Our local library has a reading program every summer that we have never participated in until now. Don’t get me wrong, we read [...]
Our girls like to act out that they are princesses, but sometimes they take the fairy tale too far. For example, yesterday the girls were in their princess dresses so they could attend a neighbor’s birthday party. After the party, I took them to the library. When it was time to go home from the [...]
This was just too cute! I had to put it in somewhere!
