Sometimes I feel sick to my stomach because the duties of my church calling overwhelm me. Mostly because I forgot something I was supposed to do, and then I feel guilty and try to do it as soon as possible. But mostly I enjoy the calling because it gives me opportunities to serve people, and it's forced me to be more outgoing. I like helping ( Read more... )

The Sunday before Thanksgiving, I was getting ready to leave church when my husband told me that the branch president wanted to speak to me. I was in the Relief Society Presidency as 2nd Counselor and had just found out that week that our president was moving. My sister-in-law Anna was 1st counselor, and she's amazing, so I assumed that when he ( Read more... )

Tonight I heard President Thomas S. Monson tell a story about a lady who had been feeling like God didn't care about her, barely ate anything due to depression, and said that the only thing that sounded good was a loaf of homemade bread. Then, this other lady felt a prompting to make an extra loaf of bread and take it to this lady that she barely ( Read more... )

Both of my kids are in annoying stages at the same time. Evan is in an "I hate everything including you" stage ( Read more... )

My husband's asleep on the couch. It's weird how when he falls asleep, I'm awake, and when I fall asleep, he's awake. Why can't we be awake at the same time, so that we can talk to one another? Darn bodies ( Read more... )

The last week or so I've been on this super organizational kick. I totally reorganized my kitchen, and I LOVE IT! I know no one else really cares about it (I know this b/c I showed it to people and could see it in their glazed over eyes.), but I'M really excited about it. I've decided to go room by room and kick clutter's butt! We bought some ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't know, I also keep a Relief Society blog where I summarize lessons and such. I've been keeping it for awhile; the whole time wondering if it was doing any good or if anyone was even reading it. It almost felt like a waste of time, really. I was spending tons of time writing with only an occasional comment from a family ( Read more... )

You know what's fun? Realizing after putting a recipe book onto 36 cds that you forgot to add a couple of recipes to it. Yay. You know what's even funner? When you add the recipes to the book, it changes ALL the page numbers, so you have to redo the entire index. Yay ( Read more... )

I'm burning the recipe book I made onto 50 gazillion cds for our activity tomorrow night. Okay, maybe not 50 gazillion, but it's A LOT! It's not fun, but at least it doesn't require me to use my brain a lot. I've developed quite the headache working on this stuff. Let's see what all I've done today in preparation for this activity, shall we ( Read more... )

I keep wondering what happened to those days when I had nothing to do, and I could sit and read books all day. What happened to that? When did my life get so busy? I'm not sure I like it. But then I also remember thinking during those times that I wanted something to do, and I was so bored. Some people just can't be satisfied ( Read more... )