Becoming Peculiar

I have entered a new world, that I didn't know existed, but that I knew should exist. Somehow, I closed my eyes for a few years and it grew up and has flourished and I just now discovered it.

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I have really learned to love General Conference the past year and a half because I have been actively reading and studying the talks when they come out in the Ensign. I have been doing this partly by participating in an online group of women where we are studying the same talk and sharing with each other.

I have really learned to love General Conference the past year and a half because I have been actively reading and studying the talks when they come out in the Ensign. I have been doing this partly by participating in an online group of women where we are studying the same talk and sharing with each other.

I have created a poster of the First Presidency and Apostles to post this week as we prepare for General Conference, and also I created small report forms for my kids (and I) to fill out as we listen next weekend. I would like to share those with you.

I just discovered the world of lapbooking. Ok, well, maybe that's not quite true, I've seen it around before, but never really tried it before. To be honest, we still haven't really tried it much, my kids have only done 1 or 2 books, but so far they seem to like it. Mostly, I spent the better part of a week designing a lapbook and had so much fun. I am excited to be able to work with the kids to put it together.

I dislike shopping for dolls. I tried to find a doll for each of my kids one year for Christmas. One problem was I had a toddler boy. I wanted to buy a doll for him. I thought boys need to learn to be Dads. I knew as a toddler he would also want everything that the girls wanted. It was so hard to find dolls that were cuddly, didn't walk or talk, and weren't wearing teenage or adult style clothing. Luckily I finally found baby dolls that I like, and my girls (and boy) played with them and loved them for a few years.

I had an ephiphany last night while we were reading the scriptures as a family. We were reading in 3 Nephi 4:4 and it says, "that they might subsist for the space of seven years." Rebecca said, "We don't even have enough food to last for 3 months. I sat up straight, and said something like. I never realized Food storage was in the scriptures. However, as soon as I thought about it I realized that it is there, several different times, in both the Bible and the Book of Mormon.

I am part of a online community that is studying the living scriptures, words of the leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. We are currently studying the April 2007 General Conference Addresses. As we read the articles we are encouraged to highlight, make notes, write down thoughts and ideas, share our thoughts and impressions and really study and learn from the articles. Occasionally I will write a more formal response to the readings.

This is response to the article
Daughters of Heavenly Father by Susan W. Tanner

Last night I attended a wonderful class presented by Mary Ann Wilcox on using the milk in our food storage. I have powdered milk in my food storage, 7 #10 cans of instant milk and 6 #10 cans of non-instant milk. However, the only thing I regularly use the powdered milk is for cornbread. My cornbread recipe calls for 1 cup of milk and I use 1/3 cup of powdered milk and 1 cup of water. At one time I tried using powdered milk and figured out that a 1/3 of a cup was the right amount to equal 1 cup, but that is all that I remember from the previous attempts at using my milk.

I found this great overview of a Thomas Jefferson Education in my files and contacted Jody Jarvis. She was kind enough to give me permission to post it on my website. I love this educational philosophy. When I discovered the Thomas Jefferson Educational Philosophy and began to figure out what is was all about I was so excited to find that someone had put a name and some definitions to what I was feeling was how I wanted to raise my family. I am still just a beginner, so I'm so glad to have found Jody's overview that explains the very basics of what I am learning myself.