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  • How to Make Time for Daily Scripture Study with Come, Follow Me

    I love reading my scriptures each day, and the Come, Follow Me manual has been such a helpful guide for my personal study. It gives me a place to begin while still allowing me to slow down and spend more time on the things that stand out to me. At the beginning of each week…

  • I Could Have Been A Billionaire

    I had to walk about a quarter mile on a dirt road to get to the bus stop in elementary and middle school. I know you’re thinking “uphill both ways” which it wasn’t but it still was a bit of a walk. I have several stories about that walk, but I saw something today that had…

  • Clean Books Uplift

    I read a great article about the importance of monitoring what your children *and you* read.  https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2024/09/02/smut-books-teens-pornography/ Finding out if an author writes clean material isn’t as easy as searching for “clean” books because the definition of clean is different by who is writing the review. Does it stop at a kiss? Does it stop…

  • The Tar Moat Around My Block

    We have a tar moat surrounding our block in the subdivision! 😮 Part of our subdivision was resurfaced this morning. We planned ahead and parked our car outside the subdivision last night because we have to wait for the tar slurry to set before we drive on it. This morning I re-read the notification to…

  • Assembling My First Lego Set

    When my children were younger I played Legos with them, but we used Duplos (the bigger blocks, which are 2x bigger than the classic size blocks). My husband would help our kids assemble their Lego sets when they’d get a set of the Classic Lego bricks — which I think of as the tiny blocks…

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