I have been struggling with motivation lately. The website has just been something I've not been excited to work on lately. This WordPress update is partially complete, but there are a few thousand images and documents to be uploaded.  I was hopeful that I could get Jared to help me with it while we were […]

Today was our final day of class.  Students cleaned out their cubbies, ate some yummy food, watched some YouTube videos (sorry, kids -- still no Strange Brew), and wrote some questions to Stump the Chump.  It was a fun laid back day to enjoy our time together. New Book of Mormon Manual I am relieved […]

This week is a weird one. The kids are off Wednesday and Thursday for exams. The other teacher is having a surgical procedure this week, too, and so his class isn't meeting Friday, which means mine isn't either. Next Monday is a school holiday (which I forgot). And yesterday, the federal government called a 2-hour […]

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 […]

Well, my tenure as YW secretary will be over when Girl's Camp is done. Sunday I was called as early-morning seminary teacher for our unit. I'd be lying if I said I was thrilled at the prospect at first, but I'm getting more and more excited about the ideas I'm getting. I've never actually attended […]