Raising Blessings

Several weeks ago a friend gave Sariah and Rebekah and Princess puzzle book that has 7 24 piece puzzles. The following day they threw all the puzzle pieces around their bedroom so I put all the pieces in a Ziploc bag and hid the book and puzzle pieces. 2 nights ago JJ had to make [...]

My brother came back home from his two year LDS Mission to Guayaquil, Ecuador last Saturday! He was supposed to come home at the end of this month but one of the missionaries became sick and needed to go back home with someone and since my brother was the only North American missionary close to [...]

Today I was thinking about the births of my daughters and actually becoming excited to give birth again! It is of course quite a journey going through labour but also a very beautiful and spiritual experience if you allow it to be. One thing that came to mind that made me laugh is that while [...]

Yes! It is true! I am 10 weeks pregnant and due on June 1st!!!! With all the exclamation marks, it is obvious that we are so excited to have a new family member. Come June 1st, Sariah will be 4 and Rebekah will be turning 3 in July so it seems like a good age [...]

Since JJ and I got married we lived in a couple of apartments that came with cable and I decided that I would much rather live without cable. A few months ago we got a coupon in the mail for $40 off a converter box which made it $9 to buy one. We had the [...]

For almost a year my 3 year old has loved pink and dresses. Now my 2 year old is the same way. Just a month ago we couldn’t put a dress on Rebekah without her crying but now she cries to wear her frilly pink dress. Bekah likes lots of colours so at least everything [...]

We had our first snowfall this morning. It snowed as I was driving the kids to the library for library story time. They were excited about the snow but we used the underground parking so they didn’t get to go out in the snow right away. After the library we went grocery shopping to pick [...]

So I got two big bruises on my leg in one day! When I first woke up I tripped over the space heater in our bedroom. Annoyingly I said “what is this doing by our bed” JJ had to remind me that it is always there (well at least it has been for the past [...]