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Monday, September 29, 2025

Think Celestial!

 Life has been a whirlwind this week. My head and heart are heavy. Life is challenging and yet when all is said and done, I know it’s worth it. We can get through it all. Luke and Ryder still giggle and laugh and play like all is well in the world and I love them for their innocence. We will keep on living and loving and doing our best to bring happiness into the world and love those who are hurting and try to keep an eternal perspective or as President Nelson would say; “Think Celestial!” I’m lucky I have some great people in my life to get through it all with!




Sunday, December 8, 2024

Life Lessons

 A crazy windstorm came through last night and after Brad headed to the church this morning for meetings he sent me a text that said, “We lost the tree.” Oh my word that tree was so much work and the kids were so sad to see that it couldn’t withstand the wind. It bent it right in the middle! There were tears and lots of disappointment. But they’re all thinking of ways to pivot and make something out of the mess we’re left with. I’m sure they’ll come up with something. I was just so grateful to see that after their sadness they found a way to laugh about it and are now trying to get creative and make the best of the situation. It’s a good life lesson for sure. Sometimes our hard work and efforts fail and become an utter disaster. You have to find a way to laugh, keep your head up, and keep moving forward.




Tuesday, March 12, 2024

New Rules

 I was running errands a lot today. Relief Society visits this morning with my friend and then dropping Kade off at basketball practice, taking some things to Brad's office, picking Kade up from basketball practice and then heading to a lesson with the Elders. They're teaching a boy Kade's age so it was good for us both to be there. But, apparently while Kade and I were gone things were not going well at home. Tenley has a fever and was on the couch all day. I told the little boys that when they were done with their electronic time they should go outside to play because it was gorgeous! They did play outside for a little bit but then Ryder wanted to come back inside and Luke was not ok with that. He was mad, screaming, and threatened to throw rocks at the window and break Ryder's Legos along with other things. It was awful! Parenting is hard and kids aren't perfect, but this was worse than what I've had to deal with for any of our other children. We need to make some changes so we have new rules and boundaries with Luke now. He is a sweet kid but he is learning bad behavior and we need to fix it. I also need to be more present or he needs to be coming along with me. Luke seems to understand how serious it all was and he also understands our new rules. Sometimes it takes a bad moment to give us the motivation we need to make good changes in life. That happened to us today. Luke is still learning right from wrong and hopefully we can all be better teachers for him! Seriously, it's hard to imagine such a sweet face saying such mean things!



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