We started off by singing "Happy Family" from the Primary song book. I drew names out of the prayer bucket for us to use in singing until everyone's name had been sung. It was silly, but Happy Family fit in with our lesson pretty well. In today's Seminary lesson, Jacob and Esau reunite. We did […]
This month's National Geographic magazine has an article in it on the teenage brain. As the mother of a teenager and a Seminary teacher, I was interested to read what they said. Much of the information was not particularly new to me -- this information on the developing teenage brain has been available for a […]
I was getting worried yesterday afternoon that I wasn't going to have time to prepare my lesson. People kept calling and coming over related to the upcoming Time Out for Women, and the DAR thing, plus I set up a VT appointment and some other stuff. Jared ended up taking DS to mutual so I […]
Today we covered Moses 3. I was out late last night with a DAR Fall Muster meeting registration I had signed up to help with, and when coupled with a family "crisis", I didn't get much time to work on my lesson for today. Luckily I had taken some notes on the material while we […]
We went out of town over the weekend to visit some family in Connecticut. My cousins Andy and Ricky had a combined homecoming/farewell at their church on Sunday and so we drove up to see them and for the service. My grandma and Uncle Randy flew in from Utah to visit, too, so it was […]
For today's reading I asked the kids to read 1 Nephi 13: 19-29, 40; 1 Nephi 14:23 and Mormon 7:8-9. Our discussion today was on whether the Bible was inferior scripture or not. They've heard all their lives that "plain and precious parts" have been removed, and the difficulty of reading the Bible sometimes means […]
GREAT NEWS!!! The county transportation department was able to find transportation on a bus for our kids, and now the Seminary students will be able to ride the bus from my house to school each morning! Now all the mommies have to do is get the kids here, and the kids' ride to school is […]
Well, it's over. All the preparing and fretting and lack of sleep culminated in a slightly rocky first day of Seminary. I'm so relieved to be finally teaching! Several of the kids arrived right at 6:00 am, which astonished me. We start at 6:10, and I don't know if people weren't sure how long it […]
William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy are 80 this year -- EIGHTY -- and I decided I better fulfill a lifelong wish of mine to see them in person. The big Star Trek convention in Las Vegas was coming up, but the timing was really awkward with some things going on in our family, and I […]
For a Fast Sunday lesson on the power of our words and how we set an example, I used looked through old status updates that our Young Women and YW Leaders have posted on their Facebook profiles. I selected one good one from each girl (we only have about 10 girls, wards or stakes with […]
