Family Home Evening

Our family is often blessed as we have family home evening. I know that as we follow the counsel to reserve this time for our families, we allow the Lord to bless us. Our children enjoy getting together and joking as a family, but more importantly it allows us the opportunity to teach our children. What a wise and loving Father in Heaven we have.

Sunday Teachers

The Lord has blessed my children with wonderful Sunday teachers who help my kids feel the spirit and learn of the gospel.

Three Fold

Mary had Selma over today. They were watching a movie on the "Family Channel" and someone in the movie swore. The kids insisted on turning the movie off. Selma really wanted to finish watching the movie, but Mary stood firm that it was not a good movie to watch because they swore. Selma was upset and went home, and while Mary was hurt, she still chose to stick by her values. As a family occasionally there is a swear word in the movies we watch (not many have absolutely no swearing, sad, yes). Robert always says, "we don't say that word," and it's become a funny that our kids will even now repeat while watching movies. I'm pleased that our kids chose not to watch a movie without us present when there was swearing.

I love General Conference. I get more excited for it each year. This year I am even more blessed by the opportunity to listen to the Lord's message with my daughter during the Young Women's General Broadcast. What a wonderful chance I had to listen to the message and be touched by the spirit and share the moment with Rebekah.

We are also blessed to have Young Women leaders for Rebekah that will be a second witness of the Lord's gospel. To have righteous sisters who will only enhance and bring more of the spirit into Rebekah's life is truly a blessing.

Peace

I loved the peace this morning after breakfast was cleaned up. The kids are getting really good at seeing what needs to be done and just taking care of it. (Though I do struggle with getting Ruth to come help out.) I got to sit on the bed with Mary and Ben and work through some art lessons and then let them loose to go paint (with Sam and Ruth at their heals, of course). I love feeling the peace promised me in my patriarchal blessing, and I know it comes from our Father in Heaven.

A Good Man

With as rocky as things are with the economy right now, we are blessed with a sure job for Robert. Robert taught a class at work on Wednesday and some very complementary emails were sent to his manager. He really goes above and beyond for our family, I'm just pleased that he is recognized and even rewarded for some of his efforts.

Quickly I'll Obey

This morning I was changing a dirty diaper when I heard the trash truck just one house away. I called, "Joseph! Trash!" and up the stairs came Joseph and Rachel who both raced out the garage in their pajamas and bare feet to meet the trash men with our overflowing trash cans (we've had company). What a wonderful blessing they are to our lives, especially when they don't even murmur about an unpleasant, hurried task.