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Our oldest daughter returned from serving a full-time mission in the France Lyon mission, got married to her best friend in the Salt Lake Temple, graduated from nursing school and are living in Rhode Island for her husband's medical fellowship. They are proud parents to a sweet almost 4-year-old girl and almost 2-year-old little boy. We are quite smitten with them both.
Our third child served in the Salt Lake City-West Mission (Spanish speaking), after getting reassigned there during COVID. We moved to Utah about half-way through her mission, but, at her insistence, never tried to see her. She had a wonderful mission, has graduated with a degree in public health from BYU, and is also in Rhode Island trying to figure out what she wants to do next.
Our fourth child served a mission in Portland, Oregon and is currently at BYU living his best life. He is studying computer engineering and loves to hike and rock-climb.
Our fifth child attended a year at BYU-Idaho and is now serving a Spanish speaking mission in Ventura, California. We miss her, but she is loving serving the people of California and we are proud of her decision to serve a mission.
I homeschooled the kids for a number of years and have held a variety of church callings along the way. This blog has fallen by the wayside over the years, but I still look at it as a place to record some of the things I've learned about living the Gospel and parenting along the way.
You can read more (very boring) updates about our family here.
What about all these FHE lessons? (written in 2010 or so)
Many years ago, when my kids were quite young, a friend asked me to join a FHE lesson exchange group and sometime after muddling through my first lesson and receiving the amazing efforts of the other members of the group it soon became an all-consuming passion for me. I was so excited to have wonderful, creative resources for teaching my family the gospel, that I joined every exchange group I could find (on the internet, in my ward, in other wards). Every night after the kids went to bed became my researching, cutting, coloring, and laminating time. Creating family home evening lessons was my main hobby for 4 or 5 years. (yes, I may be a little weird)
Now I have teenagers in the house and I don't have time to participate in the groups any more, so my passion has evolved. What started as a way to back up my favorite lessons, should anything happen to them, has become a continuation of that same passion I had then. It is my hope that you will enjoy these lessons as we have and that you, in turn, will share them with others. I have a testimony of the strength and the joy that weekly family home evenings can bring into families and I hope these lessons will make that quest for meaningful lessons a little easier for you.
Please feel free to contact me for questions or ideas for future lessons. I love hearing from you! :)
Waaaaaaaay back in the day when we lived in Baltimore and first was asked to join a FHE lesson exchange group. (about 1998)
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