I have been neglecting my blog!  The children started school more than a week ago and my littlest one is now gone all day to first grade, but I still feel extremely busy. Part of the reason is that I attended BYU Education Week last week.  I was able to go for three days and I really enjoyed it.  Education Week is a week between semesters when BYU opens their campus to the rest of the world and schedules classes that anyone can take.  I attended lots of classes on parenting, communication, and marriage.  Lots of other kinds of classes are offered but those were the topics I found interesting. For this post I want to talk about a class I attended on marriage.  It was called "Healing the Time-Starved Marriage" and the session I went to was called "Using Marriage Rituals to Reconnect Your Marriage".  The teacher was Mark D. Ogletree.  He was a pretty funny guy and he works as a marriage counselor; I thought his advice was sound.  At a different time, he taught a cl

My parents are serving a mission for our church in Boston, Massachusetts.  They left in April and have really been enjoying this opportunity.  As part of their assignment, they are helping with the "digital mission" which means that they reach out to people through blogs, etc.  My mom encouraged me to write a post for one of the blogs, so I did.  Today it was published and here is the link: http://www.reallifeanswers.org/everyday-faith/answers-to-prayers/ I decided to write about my experience with my youngest daughter whose birth and early years were so full of medical problems.  Those times were quite challenging but I grew a lot spiritually.  I had so little control over my daughter's health and I felt so helpless, but I could always pray.  I learned how to rely on and listen to God's answers and I am very thankful for that. And I'm so thankful for this cute little girl! Every child is a miracle but she's REALLY a miracle.  I don't know why we wer

Almost two months ago, we finally found a date when the stars aligned and everyone except our missionary in Ukraine could gather for a family picture, before our second missionary left and our son and daughter-in-law moved.  I think our next family picture will be in two years when our two missionaries have come back home and the next one hasn't left yet.  It just keeps getting more complicated to get everyone together!  So here is my good-looking bunch: