Raising Blessings

Did anyone else watch the Oprah special called “Building a Dream”? It was about the school that she built in South Africa that will allow over 100 under girls to recieve a good education. These girls live in poverty and have been through far worse than most of us have been through. I thought that this documentary was so inspiring and I [...]

When I was first pregnant with Sariah I knew right away that it was a girl. When I would pray for my unborn baby I would always find myself saying “she” and “her”. This time I don’t have any such impressions. Sometimes I feel that the baby is a boy and other times I feel [...]

I recently recieved some belated valentine surprises. I love surprises! Yesterday I got a package from my twin sister Sara-Jayne, with cute strawberry shortcake valentines for me and Sariah, Canadian Smarties (kind of like M&M’s except they are sweeter and melt in your hand), cinnamon hearts and hershey’s kisses. I felt so loved…could someone from Canada [...]

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First of all I have to say that I am so happy that I have chosen a midwife. I met with one of the midwife’s today and she had a midwifery student with her from a school in Utah. They were so nice and easy to talk to. I felt like they really took the [...]

I hope everyone’s valentines was filled with love. Yesterday morning when I went to open our laptop to turn it on I found a note, then I went to get breakfast and there was another note in the raisin bran box and then I went to change Sariah’s diaper and there was a note on her [...]

Well I have had a very interesting weekend. On Saturday my husband and I were planning to go to Winco a grocery store about 40 minutes away because it’s the cheapest place around and to this fabric store that I heard about that is supposed to be really inexpensive and has good fabric for making [...]

I saw this on the the news last night. Only a very strange person would do this! Recently a man who looks to be in his 50′s was caught in connection with stealing over 230 pairs of women’s underwear from BYU-I women’s housing in Rexburg, Idaho. I am glad that I am married and I now have [...]