tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76740076068802532372024-03-04T20:08:29.054-08:00The Rexburg ReviewSarah d'http://www.blogger.com/profile/13231168548380832694noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674007606880253237.post-46115306376048715532017-12-02T09:43:00.002-08:002017-12-02T11:02:36.081-08:00Volume XIII, issue ii, November 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">My maternal heart fluttered when Ethan casually tossed me the news that he was planning on trying out for "Oklahoma." For years I've vigorously summoned my flock to the piano for "singing time" during Family Home Evening and their lack of enthusiasm and embarrassment at being asked to sing in front of other people was enough to make me think that my girlhood dreams of recreating the French version of the Von Trapp Family Singers would never be realized in all of their draped with drapes musical glory. But Ethan's news was like a bunch of freshly-picked edelweiss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">On a visit to my parents in April, I asked my Dad if he happened to have the musical score for "Oklahoma," and he whipped the song book out faster than you can say "Little Wonder." My Dad had played the part of Pa Carnes during his own high school days (see photo above), and was the perfect musical mentor. With my Dad at the piano accompanying him, Ethan reticently practiced "Lonely Room" and my tears fell in time to the show tune, nostalgic scenes of a younger me belting out "Tomorrow, I love ya!" swimming before me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">My Dad said to Ethan, "Are you sure you want to try out for the part of Jud? If you get the part, you'll have to let the audience love to hate you. Are you prepared for that?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The reason that Ethan had chosen to try for Jud Fry? Pore Jud doesn't have any stage kisses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Plus it wouldn't bother him at all to be the villain. His part of choice in all of our Halloween costumes has been the villain, so he's been preparing for years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was Ethan's giddy fangirl and accompanist at his audition, so I witnessed the transformation of our achingly sweet teen into the terrifying Jud Fry firsthand and I could see from the raised eyebrows of the directors that he had nailed the audition. The "theater kids" from the high school had our theatrical newbie convinced that he had no chance of getting a part, but they wished him better luck next year and we waited for the call about call-backs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A few days later, however, Ethan got an email that said he had landed the part of Jud. They hadn't needed to have any call backs for the part because they knew Ethan was their villain as soon as they heard his country snarl in smooth bass tones at the audition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I was now Jud Fry's mother.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Eric and I knew exactly where to take Ethan for a celebratory lunch without even needing to say it out loud to each other. The three of us happily dug in to our "Big Jud's Burgers" (with a large fry. . . obviously) and talked about Ethan's theatrical debut.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Even before rehearsals started in the fall, Ethan became fascinated by the traditionally flat way the character had been played. He was determined to cultivate some sympathy for the historically static character, and compassionately </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">studied Jud, carefully considering the plight of this lonely outcast who had never been loved by anyone. Rather than playing Jud as a shallow villain with one angry note being struck repeatedly, Ethan's goal was to play him as a whole melody with some mellow sounds intermingled with the tones of bitterness. The first time I saw Ethan perform "Lonely Room" on stage, I was struck by the nuance of emotion in Ethan's portrayal of Jud, and the sadness that was at the core of this misunderstood character. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">I know I'm the proud mother, but I wonder a little (pun intended) if perhaps only the kid who would think of the idea would actually be able to pull if off. Ethan's off-stage attitude about people and their flaws helps him to embrace </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.13333334028720856px;">such</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> a colorful mix of friends that sometimes he astounds me. Popularity is a non-issue for Ethan. He simply wants people to feel happy and they do when they're in his presence. He reaches out to and includes the kids who are in the margins with such ease that I don't even think he's aware </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.13333334028720856px;">that</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> he's doing it. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">No one is a "service project" to Ethan </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.13333334028720856px;">because</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> he </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.13333334028720856px;">simply</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> doesn't categorize people that way. He loves and appreciates people as they are so organically and with such deliberate care that it's no wonder that even Jud Fry became his friend. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">With that sentimental context, I don't want you to think for a second that Ethan's Jud wasn't scary. Oh, he was. I even heard of one family who left during intermission because their four-year-old exclaimed, "That man is bad! I want to go home!" (And as you can imagine, Ethan was thrilled with such an enthusiastic review.) When going </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.13333334028720856px;">over</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> his notes after one of their first complete run-throughs, the director said to him, "Ethan, I'm going to give you a compliment which I hope you'll take as a compliment. You are. . . freaking creepy!"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.13333334028720856px;">When the elementary school kids were bused over to the high school for a pleasant little matinee, one of the little kids shrieked and cried every time Ethan came on stage, and even though he offered them his most pleasant, non-Jud smile after the play, several of the kids cowered in his presence, and refused to shake his hand or even look him in the eye. Ethan loved it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">And as good as he was at being the bad guy, my favorite parts were the glimpses of sweetness, the care with which Ethan played him. I adore that Ethan knows that people aren't all bad or all good and that he was willing to shade his performance with that nuanced understanding. Because my sweet (and pardon me for bragging...brilliant) son
chose to search for and find reasons to play Jud as a sympathetic character in
this production, I've been married to thoughts about the play for most of this month. While
I was bothered by the stingingly obvious flaws in the script (the misogyny, the
stereotypes etc), I'm actually considerably more bothered by the audience's
reaction to the play and to the characters. When evil is obvious, we wrinkle
our noses and run away from the stench, but what about the less obvious and
considerably more puritanical aspects in the script? The outsider is bullied by
the hero and we still somehow see him as heroic rather than appalling. He
encourages Jud to kill himself and yet one of my friends was so upset by the
glaring sexism that she labeled Curly as a "moral character." </span></div>
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listened to the real people in the audience react to the poorly created
fictional characters on the stage, Peter leaned over to me
during "Pore Jud is Daid" with a troubled expression, absolutely
pale as he whispered, "Mom, why are they laughing? This isn't funny at
all." </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">While Will and his friends participate in "boys will be
boys" behavior, Jud is looked down on for the "pictures" in his
room and no one seems to notice the hypocrisy in their behavior. I wouldn't
walk out of the play because of anything Jud is or does, but I would be tempted
to because of the way both the characters and the audience treat him. Even
though his character died at the end of the play, none of the elementary
students who were bused in to the dress rehearsal would shake my son's hand
after the play. I think this more subtle form of stereotyping is more
interesting to talk about because it is real. It isn't a musical. It isn't
scripted. It is our life. Sure, the script is nauseatingly outdated and
embarrassingly sexist, but I can't stop thinking about the people outside of
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We had several hours of good conversations with the kids about
allowing people to be loved and not imprisoning them in our assumptions. The
play is embarrassingly simplistic and rubs shoulders with what I would label as
"unholy," but it can also be used as a vehicle towards instruction
about what is holy. I don't love the play...at all...and yet my kids and I are all
better people because of the way their big brother and my son chose to love an
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We soaked beans and whipped up homemade orange marmalade and practiced our British accents while we cooked in our d'Evegnee-style assembly line. My British friend, Elizabeth, offered me both her incomparable culinary expertise and her homemade sausages for the occasion. I tasted one before our feast (you know, the way you have to as the head chef), and offered a piece of the precious pork to Holden and said, "You will never taste a better sausage in your life."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Peter stoically approached the microphone to deliver the self-righteous line he had written himself, he made the rookie mistake of making eye-contact with his older sister. Eve pulled a face at him which made him giggle all the way through "I can help my siblings make good choices." The irony was cringe-worthy and Eric and I rolled our eyes at our little comedy of errors that entertained and delighted the entire congregation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our Charlie is the closest thing my kids will ever have to a puppy. He yips and yaps and scampers at our feet, circling us with his fur-like mane flying. Our cuddly family mascot is generous with his affection, especially if we toss him a few cookies or chocolate chips or "cereal in a bag." He eagerly gobbles up as many treats as he can, but as Eric says, he is such a "Scrawny Prawn." But his stick-like chicken legs somehow support the weight of his hair and personality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As our debut college freshman, Holden perfectly exudes enthusiasm for academia and is a loyal patron of the Arts available to him at BYU. He was our passionate guide on several artistic adventures during Thanksgiving Break, leading us like a squirmy line of culturally starved little ducklings to the BYU Museum of Art and to the indie-type Broadway Theater in downtown Salt Lake. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There were two paintings he couldn't wait to show us at the MOA as he calls it and we were almost stunned to silence at their faith-filled beauty. Of course the moment of silence was quickly broken as a chorus of our kids' appreciative analytical comments came flying at us from all directions. It was both transcendent and sublime not only to look at the paintings with our sometimes unruly flock, but to know that they were really appreciating what they saw. They weren't being dragged to the museum--they were earnest participants, which is its own kind of art, especially in the gift that it is to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Where conies now come out to sun and romp,<br />As near a paradise as it can be<br />And not melt snow or start a dormant tree.<br /><br />It lifts existence on a plane of snow<br />One level higher than the earth below,<br />One level nearer heaven overhead,<br />And last year's berries shining scarlet red.<br /><br />It lifts a gaunt luxuriating beast<br />Where he can stretch and hold his highest feat<br />On some wild apple tree's young tender bark,<br />What well may prove the year's high girdle mark.<br /><br />So near to paradise all pairing ends:<br />Here loveless birds now flock as winter friends,<br />Content with bud-inspecting. They presume<br />To say which buds are leaf and which are bloom.<br /><br />A feather-hammer gives a double knock.<br />This Eden day is done at two o'clock.<br />An hour of winter day might seem too short<br />To make it worth life's while to wake and sport. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Right before Holden flew the proverbial coop to leave the rest of us chickens squawking in sadness at his departure, we took our traditional end of summer jaunt to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. We've been taking this same outing since Holden was a tiny, bechubbed fellow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think we both look a little happier and more comfortable 18 years later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As we prayed together in the car before we hit the road, Ethan said, "Please bless us that we'll have a fantastic time in Jackson together."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That was the first time I had ever heard someone use the word "fantastic" in a prayer and I grinned to myself because I knew that it was the perfect adjective for our day in the mountains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our itinerary is always lovely and consistent. We hike to Taggart Lake and then we cool off at the Jackson Hole Aquatic Center. As you can see, it's getting harder and harder to cram us all into the whirlpool circle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For dinner, we took the kids to The Lift, which gets great reviews on its hamburgers. The specialty there is called "The B*stard Burger" and I was a little surprised at the ease with which some of my innocent teenagers ordered it without even blushing. Holden confidently ordered his "B*stard Burger" and then gave me a big, gleeful smile from across the table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We had passed several Elementary Schools on our scenic drive home from Jackson and one of the kids commented on how Elementary Schools always seem to be named after Presidents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Eric came up with some different, slightly more creative themes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Eric was sneaking some chocolate chips from the pantry when Charlie asked if he could have some too. Eric asked him, “Do you like dark chocolate?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I peeked inside the closet and found him there behind the door, just sitting and relaxing on a big orange snow sled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We Can Do Hard Things</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Eric can't always hear clearly when we're in a crowded setting with a lot of pesky background noise, which creates hilarious dinnertime entertainment. We were having some homemade roasted red pepper hummus, and Holden asked me, "Is hummus hard to make?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Eric suddenly sat up straight and passionately threw his hands in the air and cried, "Are you kidding me??? It's the hardest thing I do!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There was a long pause as the rest of us tried to process Eric's passionate feelings about hummus until I finally asked, "What do you think Holden said?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Eric and I dragged ourselves to do some last-minute shopping for the Sabbath at about 11:30 on Saturday night. We were exhausted because of the back-to-school schedule and Eric's early classes, so by the time we stumbled into the Dairy Section, we were barely awake. As I was shoving milk and eggs into our cart, Eric grabbed a little package and sh</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">outed as if someone had given him a shot of adrenaline. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He excitedly waved a container full of some sad looking cheese and nuts and dried fruit and meat cubes in my face and said, "Don't you think this would be good?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I looked the package up and down and noticed that it had the words "Snack Break" on it. I wrinkled my nose and shook my head. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"But. . . it's a SNACK. . . AND. . . a BREAK!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With genuine frustration, he looked at me like I had just been shockingly dismissive of some great new culinary invention. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I tried unsuccessfully to respond to his dismay at my apparent lack of appreciation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And then his shoulders slumped and he said, "Wow. I am. . . so tired" and we both started giggling so much that we had to lean into each other to remain upright. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We just stood there next to the eggs, wheezing and gasping and laughing until our sides hurt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poor Marie had an unfortunate accident while playing Weeping Angel Tag in the dark downstairs that proved that Marie is as tough as Peter's head. She calmly came upstairs after the altercation and her serenity remained static even as her goose egg grew.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Within only a few days of her other injury, Marie performed a very graceful a face plant into the wood chips while playing tag on the playground, and once again, she didn't let the blood or gore chip away at her tough exterior.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our ever-creative Ethan decided to expand his repertoire of artistic skills by making himself a sweet blue bow tie. We chose the fabric and huddled together at the sewing machine like two crafty peas in a pod until his project was complete.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the Girls' Choice Dance this month, I was tickled when one of my friends texted me to make sure Ethan hadn't been asked yet so her daughter could ask him. Sigh. . . Cute Grace asked him using candy eyeballs that spelled his name, so he responded with an equally ocular theme. (Notice his choice of t-shirt for the photos.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> They <span style="font-family: inherit;">choos</span>e an 80's theme for their costumes and I haven't seen such authentic 80's hair since I peered into my hairspray-doused mirror every day in the 8th grade. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now we've apparently<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;"> recreated the protagonist for every John Hughes movie. (Or it's the ghost of my brother, Tom,</span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;"> who has returned in his 1986 form to haunt the halls of Madison High School. Freaky.) Plus i</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;">t's, like, totally awesome that Ethan got to dress in an 80's costume because I could teach him exactly how to tuck and roll his pants.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Charlie: I HATE the bus!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Charlie: I want to get back on the bus!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eric (before my Mom stopped at a store in Springfield, IL): They can't keep me on the bus!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Charlie to Kate at Independence Visitors Center after they had been riding together in a miniature pioneer wagon. He grabbed her hand and said, "C'mon Sweetie!" and they ran off together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Charlie after we stayed with Eric's sister Noelle and her family, including Charlie's favorite cousin, Matthew: "I want to get Matthew a present because he let me use he's home."</span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "georgia";">Joseph Knight
home in Colesville/Ninevah, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "georgia";">Picked up
Pizza at tiny pizzeria for 60 people and ate pizza en route</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; text-indent: -0.25in;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Harmony Priesthood Restoration
site at Susquehannah River</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></div>
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(7 Hours on Bus)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: white;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Orientation film at Historic
Kirtland Village</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Childhood
home of Lorenzo and Eliza Snow</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Johnson Home in Hiram</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Amish Dinner at Joe and Sarah
Miller’s home</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Hyrum Smith Home, Kirtland, where
Lydia & Newell Knight were married.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Community of Christ Hymn Festival
in Kirtland Temple</span></li>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Tour
Kirtland Temple</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span>
</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Tour
of Historic Kirtland Village including Whitney Store and Home</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Isaac
Morley Farm (Site of several revelations, beginning of law of consecration. Joseph
and Emma lost twins, adopted John Murdock’s twins)</span></li>
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7/27 (6.5 Hours on Bus)</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Lincoln Museum in Springfield
Illinois</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Tour Carthage Jail</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Subway Sandwiches picked up for
dinner</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Nauvoo British Pageant</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="background-color: white;">Th</span>ursday
7/28 (30 Minutes)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Nauvoo Temple Baptisms for the
Dead</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Old Nauvoo</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Seventies Hall (Special
performance for our family by “core cast” from Pageant actors on missionary
work and testimony from Grandpa Hafen about being a Seventy.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Sculpture Garden (Monument to
women and Relief Society, with performance by “core cast.”)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Trail of Hope</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Nauvoo Hotel Special Buffet</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Pioneer Pastimes—children’s games,
demos of blacksmith, brickmakers</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Nauvoo Pageant</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Special Tour of Nauvoo Temple for
Adults</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Old Nauvoo Cemetery</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Community of Christ sites (JS home
+ Joseph, Hyrum, Emma’s graves)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Adam-ondi-Ahman and Temple Hill with
discussion with Far West Missouri Stake Patriarch</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Dinner catered by Smokehouse BBQ at
Hotel</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Liberty Jail Tour</span></li>
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Temple/Auditorium</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Independence LDS Visitors Center </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Temple lot and walking tour,
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<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Far West: temple site. Church HQ
just before going to Nauvoo. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Dinner with Adults (Pizza for Kids
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Sarah d'http://www.blogger.com/profile/13231168548380832694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674007606880253237.post-53479420915058203042017-11-19T14:37:00.000-08:002017-11-19T14:37:00.081-08:00Volume XII, issue viii, August 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">The Talented Miss Marie</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is what I found taped to my kitchen cupboard. There ain't no party like a "Living Room Party!"</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Marie was planning on gussying up the living room with banners and string all day. This was serious. And only 30 minutes long</span></span><br />
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During the Living Room Party she talked about talents and humbly said, "As you've seen tonight, one of my talents is throwing parties."<br />
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Apparently Marie had to fill out a get-to-know-you sheet for third grade. The teacher asked, "So, Marie. What are you talents and interests?"<br />
Marie's answer: "Well, I'm really good at detective work."<br />
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One of my favorite newly acquired Charlie-isms is when he talks to the rest of the family (his congregation, his Fan Club, his entourage) and says, "You guys. . . "<br />
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Charlie sometimes indulges himself by whining more than he probably should and we've been trying to gently coax him out of the behavior. One day when he was singing a resounded chorus of whines, I said to him, "Charlie, when you go to kindergarten, you aren't allowed to cry or whine."<br />
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He stopped long enough to say, "But, Mom. . . you do."<br />
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I cry? Me?<br />
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He nodded his head confidently and replied, "Yes. You cry. . . when things are sweet."<br />
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So true. So very, very true.<br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Marie the Analogy Queen</span></h2>
During the past few months, Marie has become brave enough to bear her testimony in front of our congregation of about 300 members at Church during Testimony Building. She calmly walked up to the from and talked about her baptism in July. She compared it to a feast and how feeling the Spirit is like being able to try the very best foods (she's obviously a girl after my own heart. . . and stomach).<br />
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The next month she bore her testimony about how trials are like coconuts. She said that even though they seem hard and ugly like the outside of a coconut, once you get through the trial, it can be sweet and soft and delicious on the inside. (Maybe all of the food analogies come from the fact that we don't eat for two meals before Fast and Testimony meeting?)<br />
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<br />Sarah d'http://www.blogger.com/profile/13231168548380832694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674007606880253237.post-56609867190736911372017-11-19T14:20:00.003-08:002017-11-19T14:20:38.141-08:00Volume XII, issue ix, September 2016<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Eric rushes up behind me and yells,"Hurry! Take a photo! Take a photo!" "Why?" I say. He gapes at me in shock, "Because...it's crossing the road!" And this, my friends, is the type of extraordinarily metaphorical, erudite discussion shared by two English professors on a Tuesday morning in small-town Idaho. You're welcome.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Look who's coming for dinner! We opened the front door and our beady-eyed beaked friend was there to greet us. It was terrifying actually. I guess this answers the question implied in our previous poultry post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">This
past month I had the opportunity to go Vatican City and see St. Peter’s
Basilica. This was the capital of the Catholic faith and where St Peter is
supposed to have been crucified. As you could imagine, the line reflected its
importance. We waited for some time, wondering whether the Basilica was all it
was cracked up to be. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">The main reason we
wanted to go into the basilica was to see Michelangelo’s Pietà. I had heard
about this sculpture for a long time because it was one of my mom’s favorites,
but to actual see it was completely different from hearing about it. As we
entered the basilica we quickly found the statue. It was even more beautiful
than I imagined. The Pietà depicts a youthful Mary cradling Jesus after he came
down from the cross. It centers on Mary as she stares down at her son, whom she
loved and raised through his childhood. Mary’s robes flowed around Jesus like
cloth though it was solid stone. To see the anguish of Mary in this way helped
me understand, in the smallest part, how devastating such an event could be to
someone who raised and loved him. The beauty of the sculpture wasn’t its
precision or smoothness but that it captures a person and who they are. It
wasn’t a snapshot of an event but a snapshot of a person’s character. This got
me thinking about Mary and I wanted to understand the context of the piece. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">On the trip my Mom had the kids read a
biographical account of Michelangelo. In the book it describes Michelangelo’s
first piece he ever did, which was a marble relief of Mary and the Jesus as a
child. The piece is known as </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Madonna of
the Stairs</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">What was so significant
about the relief was that it didn’t focus on Jesus but instead, on Mary. It
depicts Mary clutching Jesus to her breast with Jesus’ back to the audience. In
the book it describes, “Could so important a task. . . have been forced on Mary
without her knowledge and consent? Surely God must have loved Mary above all
women on earth to choose her for this divine task? Must He have told her the
plan, related every step of the way from Bethlehem to Calvary? And in his
wisdom and mercy have allowed her the opportunity to reject it?” Michelangelo
wanted to capture the decision of accepting to raise Jesus even though she
probably knew where his life would leave. Of the little we know of Mary, we
know she would keep “all these things, and [ponder] them in her heart” (Luke
2:19) and Simeon prophesied at Jesus’ naming that “Yea, a sword shall pierce
through thy own soul also” when speaking of Jesus’ death. (Luke 2:35). It was
this moment that Mary decided to accept his son’s mission and prepare him and
trust in him and God. The Pietà was created when Michelangelo was twenty-three,
six years after </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">The</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Madonna of the Stairs.</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> The word Pietà is
an Italian word that means both religious duty, or piety, but can also mean
compassion and mercy. The sculpture captures Mary’s understanding that the
decision she made with a suckling Jesus, has now been completed. She had done
what the God had asked of her and she gave up her Son to save all of mankind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> Mary’s decision to give up her son,
can be an example to us as to how we can accept him. This acceptance is our
conversion to God’s plan for us. But, in order to understand what it means to
be converted to the Lord, we must find the answer to two important questions.
These questions were asked by Saul on his was to Damascus. As Saul was
preparing to imprison many Christians for their beliefs, a light fell on him
and from the light Saul heard a voice say, “Saul, Saul, why persecutes thou
me?” (Acts 9:4). Saul’s question to the “voice” was “who art thou, Lord?” (Acts
9:5) and the voice responded, “I am Jesus whom thou persecutest” (Acts 9:5). It
is in this moment that Saul realizes that he had been fighting against God and
his people, but instead of begging forgiveness or being paralyzed with shock,
he asks a question that would mark a turning point in his conversion “Lord,
what wilt thou have me to do?” The two questions that would redefine Saul into
Paul the apostle were about the Lord’s identity, what would He have us do after
we learn of Him. For Mary, <i>The Madonna of
the Stairs</i> captures her pondering who Jesus is and who he would become. She
accepts that her Son “must be about [his] Father’s business” (Luke 2:49). She
had to accept that Jesus would eventually have to leave her and fulfill his
mission as the Messiah. Once she understands the gravity of her Son’s mission,
she acts and has complete trust in him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> It is Mary’s act of trust that helps
Nephi with his understanding 600 years previous to Christ’s birth. As Nephi is
trying to understand his father’s vision, he is caught into a vision and is
shown the tree which his father saw. The Spirit asks him what does he desire.
Nephi responds to know what the tree means. To help Nephi understand what the
tree means, the Spirit shows him Nazareth, Jerusalem, and a number of cities.
Then, Nephi is shown “A virgin, most beautiful and fair above all other
virgins.” Their conversion continues as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thou the condescension of God?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">“I know
that he loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all
things”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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. the mother of the Son of God, after the manner of the flesh.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Here,
Nephi see Mary holding Jesus in her arms as a child. The spirit asks “Behold
the Lamb of God, yea, even the Son of the Eternal Father! Knowest thou the meaning
of the tree which thy father saw?” to which Nephi responds “Yea, it is the love
of God, which sheddeth itself abroad in the hearts of the children of men;
wherefore, it is the most desirable above all things.” What is interesting
about this exchange is that Nephi didn’t know what the tree of life represented
and in response he is, essentially, just shown Mary with Jesus. He didn’t see
the Atonement, the Crucifixion, or Christ healing and teaching. By seeing
Jehovah coming down to Earth through a virtuous mortal mother, he understands
the love of God in a new way. He begins
to understand that God would make “flesh [Christ’s] tabernacle.” (Doctrine and
Covenants 93:4) Nephi begins to understand, through Mary’s motherhood of the
Son of God, God’s love for his children. Shortly after Lehi’s death, Nephi
gives the “Psalm of Nephi” where he cries out “O wretched man that I am!” (2
Nephi 4:17) Even though Nephi had done much in faith for the Lord, it takes his
father’s death and the passage of the prophetical mantle to himself that he
seems to understand the mercy of God. He says, “O then, if I have seen so great
things, if the Lord in his condescension unto the children of men hath visited
men in so much mercy, why should my heart weep and my soul linger in the valley
of sorrow, and my flesh waste away, and my strength slacken, because of mine
afflictions?” (2 Nephi 4: 26) “Yea, I know that God will give liberally to him
that asketh. Yea, my God will give me, if I ask not amiss; therefore I will
lift up my voice unto thee; yea, I will cry unto thee, my God, the rock of my righteousness.
Behold, my voice shall forever ascend up unto thee, my rock and mine
everlasting God.” (2 Nephi 4:35). Nephi’s heart begins to turn as he sees and
understands the Lord and is able to answer the question “who art thou, Lord?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> For me, I began to see the answer to
my own plea of “who art thou, Lord?” last year. I was preparing a lesson for
the Priest’s quorum on building a relationship with our Heavenly Father but I
was also going through a hard time myself and I felt alone. In preparation of
the lesson I studied Enoch’s experience in Moses when he sees the Lord weeping.
Enoch asks how can he weep seeing he is God and the Lord responds that he weeps
over his children when they choose wrong and “hate their own blood.” This
showed that God weeps for us but that one of God’s greatest sacrifices was
letting us reject him so we can learn to accept him. When I gave the lesson, I
felt the Spirit so strongly as it testified that God was willing to let himself
suffer as he watches his children reject him so we can be happier. I got home
and went to my room and began one of the most sincere prayers of my life in
gratitude for God’s gift of choice. I barely begun the prayer when I began to cry.
It felt like someone had their arm around me comforting me, weeping with me. My
gratitude had never been fuller as I felt the love of God truly for the first
time. That experience has served the basis of my faith so that I too, can say
like Nephi “I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the
meaning of all things.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> But knowing God is only the first
step. The second question we must ask is “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”
This can become the harder of the two because we have to accept whatever we are
given. Our faith and acceptance in Christ as our Savior only comes when we
submit ourselves to his Will. As Christ said to his Apostle Peter, “I have
prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen
thy brethren.” (Luke: 22:32). Alma the younger, who had been converted after
suffering the agonies of Hell for three days was able to feel the ecstasy of
Heaven, but he didn’t stop there. He
tells his son Helaman, “Yea, and from that time even until now, I have labored
without ceasing, that I might bring souls unto repentance; that I might bring
them to taste of the exceeding joy of which I did taste; that they might also
be born of God, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.” We too must be willing to
“[labor] without ceasing” and “strengthen our brethren” so we can complete our
conversion which turns to the salvation of others. As Mary said when hearing her role to become
the Mother of the Son of God she replies in total humility, “Behold the
handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word” (Luke 1:38). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Conversion
is when we accept that Christ is our Savior, and as we understand it, we become
more willing to do what he asks. We have to accept who he is and what he would
have us do. Michelangelo’s Pietà shows the completion of Mary’s acceptance. She
gave up her firstborn son and accepted him wholly. As Paul wrote, “<span class="verse-number">we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs,
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so that we suffer with him, that we
may be also glorified together.” (Romans 8:16-17) Mary is an example to us of
what it means to suffer with Christ, but this suffering isn’t the end. Paul
continues, “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy
to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” (Romans 8:18).
Mary, as she cradles her son, had completed her mission with a love for her Son
and love of God. We can have hope that God will help those he calls. We can
remember that “we know that all things work together for good to them that love
God, to them who are called according to his purpose.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="verse-number"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> I hope we can learn from Mary and Paul what we
need to do to complete our own conversion. So that we can ask, and search the
answers to, “Who art thou, Lord” and “</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” As we learn to
love our Lord, we will be comforted through the sacrifices needed of us and we
will find joy in the work of the Lord. As Alma recalls about our the word, and
work, of God, “it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to
be delicious to me.” I know that our conversion is a steady and progressive
process that requires study and action, but through our efforts we will be
“glorified together” and find communion with God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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On Father's Day this year, as the kids were scarfing down the chocolate chip cookies that Eric had requested for his big day, Peter offered Eric a homemade gift. It consisted of carefully folded paper, decorative string, and precisely placed paper clips.<br />
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Peter grinned as Eric looked at it quizzically and explained, "It's art!"<br />
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Unbeknownst to Eric and me, while we were lumbering along in our massive Suburban, Charlie chunked a large piece of Rice Krispie Treat on the floor in the back of the car. <br />
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As witness to his crime, Ethan told him, "Charlie, that was a bad choice."<br />
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Charlie looked completely nonplussed and shrugged, "No it wasn't. Mom didn't see it. Dad didn't see it. So it wasn't bad."<br />
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Ethan retorted, "Well. . . I saw it and I'm going to tell Mom and Dad."<br />
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Charlie was so shocked that he had no response.<br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">The Tip of the Rexburg</span></h2>
Because of our heavy vacation plans in July, we signed the kids up for swimming lessons in June this year. Unfortunately for all of us (the swimming teacher included), we only have an outdoor pool for lessons and poor little Rexburg doesn't realize it's summer until mid-July. Our poor kids shivered their way through a series of freezing cold lessons with smiles on their blue lips. We were quite relieved when I didn't have to layer them in swimming suits, towels, jackets, and a good pep talk just so they could survive being cute little ice cubes every morning.<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><br />Just for Kicks</span></h2>
Eve, Peter, and Marie also got to play soccer on some chilled and soggy fields this month. Because Peter and Marie are close in age, I snuck them onto the same team so that we'd only have a measly 4 games to attend each week.<br />
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When I signed Eve up for soccer this year, I assumed that there would be an even number of girls and boys on her team. When we arrived at her first practice, however, she was the only female in attendance.<br />
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My normally feisty daughter surprised me when she looked at me with wide eyes and whispered, "Please don't make me do this."<br />
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I gently nudged her onto the practice field and whispered back, "You'll be glad you did this. Trust me."<br />
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By her first game, I proudly watched as my girl tromped down the field with her typical Eve-like confidence and kept up with every single boy on her team. She didn't seem the least bit intimidated by any of them. That's my girl! By her second game, we discovered that there was another girl on her team that happens to be one of Eve's friends, but by then Eve didn't mind too much.<br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">May the Force Be Matthew</span></h2>
It was our nephew, Matthew's birthday this month, and we always try and make him an extra special gift to celebrate. His newly discovered love for all things Star Wars combined with the fact that he's old enough to start building blanket forts gave us the idea to combine these two things that we adore. Once I got started on the personalized glittering sheets and started sewing the bag to hold his supplies, I couldn't stop myself from making some matching PJ's. (When you've got the crafty force with you, it's really hard to control sometimes.)<br />
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As proud as I obviously am of my contributions to the birthday boy, I'm even more elated about the cards our kids drew for their little padawan cousin. (For example, coming up with the phrase, "Happy SITH Birthday" for a cousin turning 6. How could I not do a Chewbacca roar of pride?)<br />
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Before assembling the items for Matthew's fort kit, our panel of seven very serious product testers helped me make sure that we had included all of the hooks and strings and blankets Matthew would need to build the perfect fort by creating their own ginormous fort. With Caleb at the helm, the kids constructed and reconstructed their blanket fort until it was sturdy enough to satisfy them.<br />
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They made it look so fun, that one by one all of us crept inside it and giggled and told stories. When Eric got home, he found the rest of us crammed lovingly inside the fort and he said, "Hey! I want to come inside too!" The kids really wanted all of us to sleep together in the fort, but we told them someone had to protect all of our valuables upstairs.<br />
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Our time in the fort really got us into the camping spirit, so despite the wind and threatening rain, we roasted hot dogs and did what we always refer to as "d'Evegnée camping." We could feel intermittent raindrops as we were eating, so we gobbled up the last of our smores right before we had to take cover inside.<br />
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Holden caught the travel bug this month and spent three weeks in three different states. He went from an Orchestra competition at Disneyland to Boys' State in Boise to the National Debate Tournament in Salt Lake City. He'd come home late at night at the end of each week just in time to wave both hello and goodbye before washing his clothes so he could repack them and move onto the next big event.<br />
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At the National Debate Tournament, he was able to go further than any other Madison High Schooler has before in Lincoln Douglas, and he made it to the top 50 in the country. Needless to say, we got to tell him how proud we were of him in July when he finally woke up after catching up on all of his lost sleep.Sarah d'http://www.blogger.com/profile/13231168548380832694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674007606880253237.post-58381403131619074862016-06-01T09:32:00.000-07:002016-09-04T15:16:00.440-07:00Volume XII, issue v, May 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">I</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"> was attempting to rush Prince Charles out the door so I could get to class, and he paused his overly-imaginative play and said, "Should I use Super Speed?"</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">I nodded </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">enthusiastically, and my thoughtful blonde speed-demon asked, "What day is it?"</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Knowing there was a Charlie-worthy punchline just ahead, I told him that it was Wednesday.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">He said, "Oh. I can only use Super Speed on Thursdays and Saturdays."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">His date's own Mother invited Holden to place his hand around her waist, and you can see from the photo that his hand is actually not anywhere near her body--it is in a G-rated galaxy far, far away.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I showed the squeaky clean photo to our Bishop at church the next Sunday to prove to him that his chastity lessons are certainly doing their job. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Since starting debate last year, Holden's dream has been to be the overall speech and debate captain for his senior year, but when it came down to it, he didn't even apply for the position because one of his good friends had applied. I kept needling him (in a kind, maternal way, of course) to apply for the position, but he refused. He applied to be the captain of just the debate team instead. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Holden came home after the debate teams' end-of-the-year party looking downcast. They had announced who all of the debate and speech captains for next year would be and his sad face had me worried. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: white;">He told me the dramatic tale about how they announced each of the captainships and someone else had been chose as the debate captain. I doubled his drama with my own gasp. I couldn't believe it.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: white;">He continued, "And then. . . they announced the overall Speech and Debate Captain and the coach said my name." He looked at me sheepishly as he realized that perhaps he had taken it a little too far for his poor Mother.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: white;">I smacked him a few times before I gave him several big hugs of congratulations. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: white;">I'm sure his namesake is both empathetic and proud.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">(And PS: Did you know that Elizabeth Cady Stanton was also a proud mother of seven in addition to all of her amazing political and social </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">success?)</span></span></span><br />
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We had a celebration with some good friends because they had also finished Book 3 of the series with their kids this month, Caleb's birthday party, Eve's End of the Year Party, and several Family Home Evening groups from Eric's ward on campus this month, so we decided to make each and every one of them Harry Potter themed. The Platform 9 and 3/4 sign on our door has been up so often our Muggle neighbors probably think that we're a bit magically muddled!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our Family Home Evening lessons with the BYU-Idaho students even had a Harry Potter theme. We decided to talk about our relationship with God and compared when Moses finds out he's a son of God to when Harry finds out he's a wizard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hadn't warned Marie I was going to ask her any questions in front of the students because I wanted her responses to be genuine and unrehearsed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I asked her how Harry felt when he found out he was a wizard, she gave her trademark thoughtful look and said, <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">"Well. . . it was like Harry knew he was a wizard in his heart, but he couldn't quite believe it in his head. So he just had to get his heart to trust his head and believe."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Luckily our dear friends, the Wilsons, love Harry Potter as much as we do and could celebrate The Prisoner of Azkaban with us!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We commenced the day at our favorite Taqueria, feasting on chorizo and bacon breakfast burritos and feeling like we had been given new life. With each spicy bite, my neck and shoulders loosened and I was able to leave the cares of the previous semester in the past. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">April 21st is a meek, soft, appreciative, and weepy day filled with long, reflective pauses and lumps in the throat. A lifetime of gratitude won't suffice. I can never rejoice enough. I’m remembering the palpable fear of eight years ago. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On April 21st eight years ago I was breathless, panicked, and laboring at 32.5 weeks pregnant. I was still healing emotionally from two miscarriages as well as the loss of the twin I had been carrying with that pregnancy. They told me the baby I was carrying had a fifty percent chance of survival. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">April 21st is my day of miracles and remembering that the power of the Priesthood gave us a baby girl who shouldn't have survived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fragments from that day. . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Calling Eric and telling him to come home. "We have to go to the Emergency Room. . . now."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Checking into the hospital with rubber bands of terror all around me, the contractions were 2 minutes apart and hard. I had been throwing up all night, so the world was fuzzy and altered even before the doctor told us "This baby needs to come now. . . It's up to you, but from what I can see, I have a gut-feeling she'll die if she doesn't come now."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I said, "But I just want to go home and think about it. . . please?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The numbingly desperate phone calls to family. Just tell me what to do. I can't think. Someone just tell me what to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Eric's blessing. You will witness a miracle. What does a miracle mean?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The peaceful weight of a myriad of prayers from those we love, all of them rising up, matching with our own starving-for-hope pleadings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Watching the white ceiling rush by on the way into surgery, trying to catch some air, trying not to break. Feeling the pressure--what the doctor said was pressure. You'll feel a little pressure. Too soon after the emergency epidural, it wasn't pressure I felt. Staring at the clock on the wall of the OR--suddenly there were two clocks and I was dry heaving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A gasp from a roomful of professionals. The uterus is full of blood, I heard the doctor say, the strain in his voice. Closing my eyes and fighting back the urge to throw up. . . again and again. Blood spilling out of me and onto the floor. Hands and metal, wrestling her out, jerking me roughly back and forth as I stared at the green shield. Seeing nothing but green, but feeling the release and hearing nothing but suction, and snipping, and the rustling of scrubs in quick, pre-panic movements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finally a cry. At least she's ours. Closing my eyes and being put back together again. Being rolled on the gurney into the NICU, and seeing two tiny feet and tubes and wires. So many tubes. So many wires. And those two tiny feet with ten toes sticking up like rosy, fleshy flower petals. More rushing white ceilings and hallways and more medicated, involuntary sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The doctor leans down into my fuzzy world. If we had waited even twenty minutes, your baby wouldn’t have survived, he whispers. She is a miracle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Looking at the clock every time my eyes looked out of a window from the morphine. When can I see her? Please let me see her? Eight hours? I have to be able to stand up before I can go? I'll do a cartwheel NOW. . . please? Waiting for seven and a half hours and buzzing the nurse again and again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Breaking the rules. Sitting in the wheelchair and wanting the nurse to push faster. Holding her. Moving aside tubes and wires and stroking the flower-petal toes. Knowing what a miracle feels like. Knowing what a miracle is. Holding a miracle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My Petite Marie was cheerfully greeted at her birthday breakfast table by her very own assortment of sugary cereal delights, cookies, and candy (as one of 7, she rarely gets more than a couple of nibbles of any of these items). Before she sat down to eat, she ran to her room and grabbed her journal to record the birthday play-by-play. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We were able to bring Marie's birthday lunch and eat it with her in the elementary school cafeteria. The gym and tables made me feel like I was dining among the Lilliputians. Eric said, "I feel like I'm eating in a chicken coop!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our sweet Caleb turned 14 this year, and was able to have a small party with his best friends. We went shopping together for treats and planned for their happy band of brothers-from-another-mother to go out to eat at a restaurant by themselves with me picking up the bill. As we planned each layer of his party (we plan parties in layers at our house), he spouted out excited appreciation. Watching him grin and listening to him say, "Wow, Mom! Thanks so much!" every five minutes made me want to plan more parties for this grateful kid. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Springtime Magic</span><br />
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Even though Charlie sleeps in a "big boy" bed, he has somehow been trained to believe that he can't get out of bed until I open his bedroom door and give him permission to get up. (I didn't deliberately train him to do this, but it sure has its perks.)<br />
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During our morning scurryings to get the six other kids off to school, we attempt to be as quiet as little mice--mice who need to eat breakfast and make six sack lunches and gather their homework. If I'm lucky, Charlie sleeps in long enough for me to exercise and get ready for the day.<br />
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If Charlie catches me mid-routine or mid-shower, sometimes he has to wait for me to open his door, and he will shout, "Moooom!" in intervals that, much like contractions, get louder and angrier with each passing minute.<br />
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One March morning, Eric happened to be standing right outside Charlie's door when he bellowed his first, "Mom!" Eric immediately opened the door and Charlie looked at him in shock and exclaimed, "Well, that was magical!"<br />
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Occasionally, once again if we are very lucky, Charlie will serenade us from his bedroom for a while before he starts screaming my name. I captured this particular morning's song (which sounds more like a Gregorian Chant than anything else). The lyrics are "It's time to be morning" repeated roughly a few dozen times.<br />
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Charlie was spinning some cute little blonde yarn about something whose plot escapes me. When he got to his assessment of the situation, he said with disappointment, "It was awkward. I thought it was magical, but it wasn't."<br />
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As Charlie and Eric were inspecting some sad and empty pots just waiting to be filled with spring flowers, they looked at the dirt thoughtfully.<br />
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Eric asked Charlie, "If we planted you in these pots what would grow?"<br />
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Charlie thought about it and quickly replied, "Dinosaurs and cookies."<br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">I Can Show You the World (and Then Keep You Out of It)</span><br />
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Eve excitedly tried out for her Middle School's production of Aladdin this year and was happy to be chosen as one of the Agrabah guards. She was as happy as if someone had given her three wishes since she considered it to be evidence that this was an equal opportunity production.<br />
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Originally she was cast as the "third guard," but after one of her rehearsals, she climbed happily into the car and said proudly, "I got a promotion today! Now I'm the second guard!" This meant that she got to have a speaking part with three lines, which she was thrilled about.<br />
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Since she is about a head taller than most of the other kids in the play (as you can see in the above photo with her friend), she did look pretty tough up there on stage.<br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Happy Easter-versary!</span><br />
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This year our wedding anniversary fell on Easter, which couldn't have been more appropriate. Eric gives me such complete comfort, such a feeling of home, and yet he helps to consistently renew me with each passing year. It astonishes me that our marriage could feel so simultaneously ageless and yet so brand new, so sacredly ritualized and yet so beautifully spontaneous.<br />
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Trying to potty train our gallant Sir Charles was a little bit like trying to "apprivoiser" the fox in the Little Prince. Apprivoiser: French, verb. Translation: tame; domesticate; make socially acceptable even if it squashes your soul in the process. </div>
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When the Little Prince meets the fox, the fox, like Charlie, is as wild as the nature that surrounds him. For Charlie, learning to use the potty was something completely unnatural, which made him yawp in barbaric ways. He screamed and he cried and he shook every time I brought up the prospect of learning to use it. </div>
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We've purchased different types of potties and a myriad of cute little boxers and briefs with happy little characters dancing merrily across their in-seams. We've bought potty treats and bribed him with toys of every kind. </div>
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But he would just look at us with his determined blue eyes and say, "No! I don't want to use the potty!"</div>
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I would ask him, "But don't you want to be big?"</div>
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He would pause and put his tiny index finger next to his lip thoughtfully and say, "I want to be big," then he would crinkle his nose and add, "and little." Our little fox is no dummy. </div>
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Talking to Charlie about potty training echoed so perfectly the Little Prince's first interaction with the untamed fox:</div>
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"Who are you?" asked the little prince, and added, "You are very pretty to look at."</div>
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"You must be very patient," replied the fox. "First you will sit down at a little distance from me--like that--in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day . . ."</div>
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And that is exactly how we potty trained Charlie. Each day we could get just a bit closer, but if we used too many words, the screaming would start again. As the fox says, "<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">One runs the risk of </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">crying</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"> a bit if one allows oneself to be </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">tamed</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">."</span></div>
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And then, in February, the month of love, Charlie decided that he would allow us to tame him. This Potty Taming only began when he decided that he wanted to be a big boy. He had to be in control of the taming and I had to watch and to listen for signals of his readiness. Like the fox, he was in charge and I had to understand the privilege of being a part of the process. </div>
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Speaking of Le Petit Prince, I can't resist throwing in these thematically relevant photos from when Charlie was two and so very, very wild and beautiful. </div>
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Once Charlie allowed us to began Potty Taming him, he caught on fairly quickly. As he placed the stickers on his Potty Chart, they were all perfectly symmetrical and controlled--in complete contrast to our wild screaming boy only a few months ago. </div>
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One of Charlie's favorite tunes is "Jingle Bells" and I was stunned at how our boy wonder could adapt the lyrics so well to his potty training duties. He would sing, "Come out poop! Come out poop! Come out all the way" to the tune of Jungle Bells with such gusto that even his bowels seemed to sing along. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">His new Darth Vadar-themed Big Boy Bed was the least I could do to reward him for all of his scatological success. The force was with him. . . finally. </span></div>
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As soon as Eve turned 12, she became eligible to go to our Wednesday night youth activities for Church, which we call "Mutual." As a 12-year-old young woman, she's known as a Beehive, which fits her no-nonsense busy-as-a-bee personality so well. I had to capture my ever-growing entourage the first night it was a quartet.<br />
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Two days before her birthday, Eve was able to come to an evening held to welcome the new young women who are turning 12 this year called "New Beginnings." I was able to sit by her side like a proud mother cat, fluffing my fur and purring just a little.<br />
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As part of the program, we recited the Young Women's Theme, which I have recited hundreds of times over the years, both as a Young Woman myself and also as a Young Woman leader. You'd think that by the five hundredth time around, it would be a no-brainer, a robotic script.<br />
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But with my sweet Eve by my side, the tears started rolling before I could finish the first sentence: "We are daughters of a Heavenly Father who loves us, and we love him."<br />
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I suddenly lost my ability to speak and just stood there clearing my throat and crying. Eve looked closely at my face, leaned in to my ear and whispered, "Do you do this EVERY time you say this?"<br />
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I don't really want to gush about one of my own offspring, but I have to indulge myself for just a paragraph. I know I'm supposed to lament the passage of time and plead with the clock to slow down, but watching Holden becoming a young man is one of the most satisfying parts of the honor of being his mother.<br />
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Holden has been the captain of the Lincoln Douglas Debate Team at his high school this year and he has found one of his callings. As quiet and introverted as he is, when he is debating it feels like a natural extension of his personality. When he went to the national qualifying tournament, I was able to watch him debate and it was like watching someone display a natural gift that had been cherished enough to become a nurtured one as well. He is a balanced critical thinker, relying on logic and analysis rather than cheap rhetorical parlor tricks. I love that he is becoming himself, but it pleases me just as much that he is also retaining the humility that can accompany the passage through self-doubt.<br />
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After one debate tournament, a father of one of the novice debaters on Holden's team approached Eric and asked him how Holden had done in the finals. He said to Eric, "Apparently Holden is kind of a legend."<br />
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When he and Ethan went to a debate tournament in Boise for three days, I gave them some cash and counseled them to spend it wisely. I had no idea that they would take me quite so seriously. When they returned, Holden gave me every cent they didn't spend as well as the receipts for anything they did spend (which wasn't very much).<br />
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If you can see the list of purchases, you'll notice items like "wheat bread" and "low fat turkey."<br />
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On Valentine's Day these adorable little cupids that Holden gets to Home Teach for part of his church calling paid him a visit with some treats. He diligently visits their family every month despite his busy schedule and he's so sweet about it that my insides just melt into a puddle.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823;">Just as the new year was beginning, we rang out the wild bells en masse by walking wide-eyed through this stunning structure with Grandma and Grandpa as they huddled up with most of their 45 grandchildren, whispering about Adam and Eve, the Atonement, sacrifice, altars, and eternal joy. The shades of earthy greens and rosy pinks created my favorite type of Home atmosphere--the feeling of being encircled with perfect love without having to be flawless. </span></span></div>
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On very rare occasions when the "world is too much with [me]" (as it was in January this year), Charlie gets to be my breakfast date just so I can admire both him and the most delectable breakfast burritos in the world as they sit so beautifully across from me in our little booth of comfort. I love how the burrito is almost as big as my Charlie is.<br />
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During some of our December and January disappointments with the loss of my computer, my external hard drive, my etsy shop, and our savings account for Paris, (which had to be used to fix our Suburban), there were days when that little face was the only thing that could pull me through the day.<br />
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So much loss opens the way for an equal amount of discovery, and I discover daily how much I love the people who I have the honor of calling <i><b>my </b></i>people. They help to create my tabernacle to temple transformation too.<br />
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One morning while munching on his breakfast, Charlie put a cheerio on his thumb and said, "My thumb looks like an angel."<br />
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There was definitely an angel right before my eyes.<br />
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One of our favorite Charlie-isms comes about three times a day when he slumps over in a painfully dehydrated state and cries out mournfully, "I'm really, really drinky!"<br />
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When Charlie refuses to go solo to Primary on Sundays I get to sit and listen to the lessons and sing the songs with the kids who are 8 and under.<br />
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On one lucky Sunday I got to listen as one of the leaders was talking about the new theme for 2016 which is "I Know the Scriptures are True." The leader mentioned scriptures that talk about how we should read the words of <span style="font-family: inherit;">God and pointed out words l</span>ike "<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="emphasis" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">feast," "</span><span class="emphasis" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">treasure up,"</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.00784314); color: #333333;"> "</span><span class="emphasis" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">search diligently," and</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.00784314); color: #333333;"> "</span><span class="emphasis" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #333333; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hold fast<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314);">." </span></span></span>The leader asked the group of kids, "What kinds of words are these?"<br />
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While all of the other kids shrieked answers like "Actions" and "They do stuff," I could hear Marie's calm, clear voice ringing above the din, shouting, "They're verbs! To do or to feel!"<br />
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Hmmm. . . I think somebody must be the daughter of two English Professors.<br />
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The sub-zero temperatures combined with a less-than-reliable heater forced us to wax creative in order to keep warm in December. Since fixing our heater is beyond our budget this year, each of us received a warm and cozy onesie for Christmas that is not only practical, but amazingly stylish. We look like a family of Rexburg Eskimo Gangsters.<br />
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Even wearing a onesie from head to toe didn't provide enough heat to keep my gangsters warm on some of our Rexburrrrrg nights, so I sewed rice bags that my little Ice Cubes could warm up in the microwave each night and then put in their beds.<br />
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Charlie was especially enamored with his rice bag and carried it with him everywhere he went.<br />
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He held it out to me proudly and said, "This is my bean bag."<br />
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I nodded and said, "Well, it's like a bean bag, but it actually has rice in it."<br />
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He gave me a steady stare and said, "Rice is beans."<br />
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And thus a new family expression was born. On any given day, at any time, you'll hear one of us say, "Rice is beans."<br />
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And sometimes, if you're lucky, you'll hear us substitute a different word for "rice" because, according to Charlie's logic, anything can be beans.<br />
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For example: "Pizza is beans" (while the kids are eating their Friday night dinner). Or if I ask Eric to please help Charlie put on his shoes, I might hear Eric say, "Shoes is beans."<br />
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It really has become a universal expression and I highly recommend it.<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Ohhhhh, Christmas Tree (of Doom)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Since our first Idaho Christmas twelve years ago, each year on the first Monday night in December we make the trek to a local nursery to "hunt" for the d'Evegnée Family Christmas Tree. Each year, we've talked about making a real trek into our Idaho forests to actually "hunt" for a tree, but each year I pooh-pooh the idea because of my anxiety about one of the kids getting maimed by the saw or catching hypothermia. (Those 4-H videos from the days of my Idaho youth certainly succeeded in teaching me about the dangers of hypothermia, but I don't think their goal was to scare me away from ever wanting to be outside in the winter with my kids!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This year, Eric begged me to let him hunt for his own fresh tree out in the wild. I was reluctant until he told me he had "called the Park Ranger." I was so pleased by the idea of my Connecticut Yankee calling a Park Ranger that I couldn't stop laughing the rest of the day. I never pictured my sweet professor striking up a conversation with an actual Park Ranger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had to give in. I told him that he could take the four "Olders" to get the tree and that I would keep the three "Littles" at home with me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">While I made dinner and got out ornaments and strings of garlands, my four Mountain Men and one Mountain Lady braved the weather and the snow and the ice and drove up past Mesa Falls to find the tree of Eric's dreams. When they returned, I knew something had gone terribly wrong when the four kids were wearing plastic grins the size of the forest. Even though Eric was clearly limping, he didn't want to rehearse the gory details of their trek until after the kids were onesied, rice-bagged, and bedded. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">While on their adventure, our minivan had gotten stuck in the snow just in front of a grove of tall pines. Since Holden has his learner's permit, Eric told him to get in the car while Eric pushed the car from the front. I won't give all of the details, but the short version is that the car lurched forward and threw Eric backwards and into the trunks of the trees, causing him to be painfully pinned on his back between the car and the trees while the engine was still revving. By the time the car was put in reverse and rolled off of Eric, he miraculously emerged with only cracked ribs and a severely sprained back. We are aware that it could have been much, much worse and that he was protected by unseen forces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When he dragged himself into class the next day, his students gasped at the way he was carrying his broken body, and one of them said, "What happened to you?? Did you get hit by a car or something?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poor Eric limped through the rest of December, only surviving through the grace of daily muscle relaxers and ibuprofen. </span><br />
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These photos are a testament to Eric's loyalty to me as he took them while he was in severe pain. He loves me and knows me well enough to know how much I love our photos of our chosen tree each year, but imagining him grimacing and gritting his teeth as he snapped these photos makes me a little sad.<br />
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When the boys dragged the tree in from the car, it was only about four feet taller than the highest point of our living room, so they had to drag it back outside and saw off another huge chunk so it would fit in the house.<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">The Gift of the Charli</span><br />
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A couple of weeks before Christmas, Charlie was overcome by the Christmas Spirit and I found him gathering up his favorite used items from the kitchen and his bedroom so that he could give them to his favorite cousin, Matthew, for a Christmas present. He wanted to put all of his treasures in an empty fruit snacks box, so he packed up the broken pieces of toys, papers from preschool, and other random crayons and stickers. It was so cute to witness his innocent excitement that I couldn't resist taking him to the post office to ship the package of hand-me-downs to Ohio for his cousin.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823;">During December I'm always forced to juggle my Christmas preparations along with the grading of research Essays. The day before the final, I received this email from a student:</span><br style="color: #141823;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823;">"I do not feel good what so ever. My stomach is not a happy camper right now and I spent most of my time revising my essay in the bathroom if you get what I mean."</span><br style="color: #141823;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823;">I didn't want to be the only one with this festively fecal image dancing in my head! I'm so grateful right now that I taught my composition students about the power of vivid description. (And I decided to grade his essay with rubber gloves on.)</span></span><br />
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A major portion of my December was spent helping to organize a community fundraiser to raise funds for Syrian Refugees with a group of my like-minded friends here in Rexburg. I decided that having an "Event" would help me check off the first on my rather lengthy list of steps that must be taken in order to reach my ultimate goal of becoming one of the reality TV celebrities on Real Housewives of New York City. I may not have a face full of botox or wear evening gowns to clean my toilets, or have a head full of hair-extensions, but I can organize an "Event!" Step one complete. </div>
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Rather than creating and designing neighbor gifts this year, our family designed a logo for our organization (Rexburg Relief), and also created fliers to be distributed to our community to advertise the fundraiser. We also designed and cut out ornaments with the faces of refugee children for the Giving Tree and dipped about 250 cookies in chocolate and sprinkled them with crushed-up candy canes for refreshments for the Event. </div>
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After two group meetings and over 1500 Facebook messages (that's not an exaggeration), my friends and I threw a shindig that any of the Real Housewives would have pulled out each others weaves over. We ended up raising almost $2500 dollars in cash and folks from the community donated 40 bags of new and used items, including about 30 baby carriers. </div>
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My small army of elves also committed to share part of their Christmas with refugee children, which meant that we shared not only our time but our Christmas with those kids this year. It was sweet to watch the whole family get so cheerfully involved. </div>
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I was impressed as I watched my sweet seven on the day of the event as they helped to set up, clean up, and run the ornament-making station where they helped other children at the fundraiser make hand-shaped ornaments on which they wrote down an amount of money they would donate to refugee children.</div>
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Our Christmas Eve French buffet and our cheesy Christmas Eve were both hits this year. Every year we keep perfecting our holiday menu and the kids think that we've finally settled on just the right combination of foods. They love the Christmas Eve Vichyssoise as much as they adore the sausage and potato breakfast casserole, and they could never live without their Christmas Day Boeuf Bourguignon.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">All I Want for Christmas is to Freestyle (and my 2 Front Teeth)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">These two little darlings were singing songs about Christmas wishes and missing teeth in tandem this year. Marie and her friend, Lucy Gilbert, both agree that it's comforting to have a best friend with whom to share Chistmath! (We also love that our dear Gilberts live close enough to celebrate even the littlest of little things with us again!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Marie pr</span>oduced our favorite festive one-liner this year when she was pondering her Christmas loot on our late and lazy Christmas morning. As she was eating her Christmas Breakfast, she paused between bites and said reflectively, "The only problem with my new Just Dance game is that I like to free-style."<br />
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Eric's sister, Noelle, never disappoints with her choice of Christmas Jammies for the kids.<br />
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In fact, Charlie loved his Spiderman Pajamas (which he called a "sweater" for some reason) so much that after their trial sleep run on Christmas Eve, his blue eyes sparkled happily when he said, "I like this sweater. I want to wear it all on the time on all the days."<br />
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You know Christmas is going to be good when five of your stockings contain light sabers.<br />
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May the Christmas Spirit be with you.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My gorgeous niece, who is borrowing the royal ensemble from Grandma so she can wear it for cold morning runs and skiing. She promised me she'd send me a photo, so stay tuned! Would it be insensitive if I say it will be her morning Alder-run? </span></span>Sarah d'http://www.blogger.com/profile/13231168548380832694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674007606880253237.post-90053155820858631902016-02-15T08:46:00.002-08:002016-02-15T08:50:08.967-08:00Volume Xi, issue ix, November 2015It's hard to talk about what you're grateful for through forkfuls of turkey and stuffing when you're in bed all week with the flu, so I chose to stay home and be thankful for ibuprofen and the quick passage of time rather than driving to Utah to spend Thanksgiving with my family.<br />
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My sweeties here at home refused to go on without me, so they feasted on frozen ravioli for Thanksgiving Dinner.<br />
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I would have been really quite sad if I had been able to get out of bed long enough to process any real thoughts.<br />
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A few days later when I was feeling better, we ate our own little belated Thanksgiving victuals. As I was looking for a good brine recipe for our turkey, I stumbled onto a recipe for turkey covered in what they gluttonously labeled a "bacon jacket." After not eating for three days, I figured I should jump on that cholesterol train.<br />
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It was like basket weaving, but with bacon.<br />
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Doesn't our bird look so warm and comfortable in her new jacket?<br />
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Homemade Lion House Rolls, cornbread and sausage stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and roasted brussels sprouts all served up on a paper plate just to prove that I had been just that sick only a few days earlier.<br />
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Homemade chocolate cream pie and a pecan, caramel and chocolate tarte. (Can you tell we prefer chocolate to pumpkin around here?)<br />
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The body language in this photo yields a cornucopia of emotions. Yes. Some of us ate Thanksgiving Dinner in our pajamas just because we could. And yes, some of us ate ourselves into such a stupor that we had to rest our heads in our hands. No ties or nice clothes were required and the sunglasses were optional.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here we are as the Odd Couple. My sweet puppy didn't quite know what he was getting himself into when he agreed to be Snoopy. When his costume blossomed from the depths of my craft room late on Halloween Eve, I rushed into the bedroom to show it to him (and bounce on the bed just a little, little bit). Eric rolled over, looked at me standing above him on the bed with a maniacal grin and grown man-sized dog costume, and he said, "I didn't think this through, did I?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As we were weaving our way through several Utah neighborhoods with my sister, Emily, and her kids, Eric kept saying he was "dog tired" and telling me he knew he needed to be extra nice so he didn't have to "sleep in the doghouse" and it never got old. Maybe that's because one reaches a certain level of euphoria when one allows oneself to flutter through otherwise normal neighborhoods as a life-sized canary. As I shook my tail-feathers and skipped along next to my beautiful, normally dressed Emily, Eric shook his head and told me that it looked like I had been released from my half-way house for the evening by my big sister. </span></div>
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Since the Peanuts Movie was going to be released only days after Halloween, Peter had the bright idea to go to the movie in our costumes. How could we turn town our brave little Linus?<br />
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When we went trick or treating at their house, our dear friends, the Hartvigsens, somehow got roped into the peanutty good idea of coming with us to the movie. We just happened to sew costumes for them just for our movie outing, and one of them was just slightly more thrilled than the other (I'll let you guess which one is which).<br />
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Not only were they good sports, but they made the trip to the movies even more delightful than we could have imagined.<br />
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Just looking at this photo makes me love them even more (which I had though was pretty impossible).<br />
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We took our annual trip to Jackson Hole during our last few gasps of summer air before school started. It was breathtakingly lovely as it always is. I think there is something in the air there that refreshes and renews. </div>
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<i>This issue is dedicated to my smart and spunky niece, Hannah, who "had a bone to pick with me" for falling behind on my publication schedule. THANK YOU, Hannah for being my best and truest fan. (Does this mean that I can call you Hannah Fannah now? I love you!)</i><br />
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Our little Chuck inhabits a land of his own creation. Sometimes the rest of us are allowed to visit, but he is the only one who lives there permanently.<br />
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Here are a few vignettes that will give you a taste of what it feels like in Charlie's four-year-old world:<br />
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A few months ago when the summer sun was finally beaming down on us for the first time after enduring a long, hibernating winter, Eric pulled out some shorts for Charlie to wear. Eric helped Charlie into the shorts, but the poor kid had lived in our winter wonderland for so long that he couldn't remember ever wearing shorts before.<br />
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Charlie looked down in shock and yelled, "My pants are broken!"<br />
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Normally Charlie wakes up long after the other kids have huffed and puffed their way off to school, lugging backpacks and stoic expressions. One morning, though, Charlie woke up before any of the other kids. After eating his breakfast, his lack of beauty sleep crept up and hit him and he whined to me, "I don't want to be tired!"<br />
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Charlie drops his shoes wherever it's convenient, and we're constantly scurrying around at the last minute trying to find them. Cramming his tiny tootsies into the shoes once we've located them is only another step in the process of getting him ready. (Step? Huh? Get it?)<br />
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The other day Charlie refused to let me put his shoes on, so I asked him, "Do you want to walk in bare feet?"</div>
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He looked at me like I'd been taking silly pills and said, "We have people feet, not bear feet!"<br />
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For most of the year, we've had to sit with Charlie in Primary at church to get him to be a little "Sunbeam" with the rest of his class of fourteen three-year olds. (You heard me right. Fourteen squirmy, restless, three-year-olds who are expected to sit still for three hours of church. That's twenty-eight arms and twenty-eight legs just itching to reach out and smack each other while learning about Jesus.) After almost nine months of cajoling Charlie to go to Primary, one week Charlie decided he was ready to face the music-time as a solo.<br />
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To communicate his decision, Charlie looked up at Eric and said simply: "I don't want to see you anymore."<br />
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Then he just marched over and sat by his teacher and the rest of his class without even looking back.<br />
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Eric came out in the hallway and said to me, "I think Charlie just broke up with me."<br />
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Marie and Charlie were racing and rumbling up the stairs together. When Charlie reached the top, he triumphantly declared, "You didn't win and I didn't win. We BOTH win!"</div>
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Charlie's favorite part of preschool isn't the friends at school or the snacks or learning about the alphabet. It's being able to wear a backpack that is so big on him that he could live inside it.<br />
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He enjoys hiding all sorts of household items in his beloved backpack.<br />
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One of Peter's best friends at school has been a little boy name Keagan. I didn't know Keegan had any social struggles because Peter never talked about him with anything other than glowing terms. Peter often told me after-school stories about Keegan, but they were always full of admiration and laughter.<br />
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Keegan's family moved this fall, and a few days after they left, Keegan's grandmother approached me at church and grabbed my hand and said, "Thank you for raising Peter to be such a sweet boy." She cried as she told me how much Keegan had struggled at school because of being Autistic, and was constantly being bullied by the other kids. She said, "Peter was the only one at school who was nice to him."<br />
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I looked into his ocean-blue eyes and told him how proud I was of him, but I think those eyes have a natural gift for seeing the best in people. I don't think it occurred to him to think of his friend as being different. He seemed a little surprised at the big deal these teary women were making of the whole thing. He just missed his friend.<br />
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Peter's first piano lesson was on 8/4/15. He had been waiting so patiently for his first lesson and could hardly wait to get his hands on the keys as an official piano student. We got out his hand-me-down books and his legs swung back and forth with quick excitement as he sat on the edge of the piano bench, waiting for his lesson to start. </div>
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We saw some scribbles in the well-used level one piano book and I said, "You very well could have been the one who scribbled in this book!"</div>
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Peter saw his five-year-old cousin, Matthew, on facetime, and Matthew was wearing his favorite superhero mask and looking into the phone seriously.<br />
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Peter said dramatically, "So <i>that's</i> Batman's secret identity!"<br />
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Ethan had his golden birthday this year, turning 15 on the 15th in 2015. When some girls turn fifteen they get to have a "Quinceanera," so we decided that we could call it Ethan's "Quinceanero." Ethan requested hamburgers at a new joint in town called "The Burg" with ice cream cake for dessert.<br />
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Before school started, one of Ethan's friends prodded him unto trying out for the freshman soccer team. To try out, he had to go to practices at 6:00 am, and we assumed that the early hour during the summer would deter him significantly. We were surprised when he not only got up for practices, but didn't complain about having to get up for practices. He made the team and committed himself to two-hour-long practices every day after school, and games every weekend. Although most of our kids played on recreational sports teams when they were younger, this was my foray into the world of real Soccer Mom-ness and it felt a little strange to be applauding a high school athlete rather than going to a recital or listening to a debate. We haven't had much experience with having a true high school jock in our house.<br />
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Despite his busy soccer schedule, Ethan kept up with practicing his music and completing his homework, and Eric and I found ourselves looking at each other with raised eyebrows. Ethan had somehow transformed himself into the golden child for his golden birthday.<br />
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In our first parents' meeting with Ethan's soccer coach, he told all of the parents that if the boys worked hard and came to practices, they would all have a chance to play at every game. Even though Ethan had less experience than some of his seasoned teammates, his coach seemed to appreciate his loyalty, determination, and his growing skill. After several practices, we could see that he was an equal to his more experienced teammates. We loved watching him play, and we cheered him on as he tore across the soccer field, even performing impressive head shots when the opportunity arose.<br />
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Several games into the season, Ethan's team had the opportunity to enter a tournament that would eventually lead them to the finals. All eight of his biggest fans piled into the car and headed down to the water-logged and wind-swept field. We kept waiting for Ethan to play. And we waited. And we waited some more. Finally Charlie piped up, "Where's Ethan?"<br />
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Ethan sat on the bench the entire game, which his team won. As I watched him walk towards us after the game, I expected him to mutter or moan about not being able to play in the game. We tiptoed towards him, ready to offer him condolences or at the very least offer to take him to get some ice cream to ease his pain. I tentatively asked him, "How are you doing?<br />
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He squared his strong soccer-player's shoulders and said with a sincere smile, "Great!"<br />
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He went on to tell me how much he had learned by sitting on the bench. As I listened to him in stunned silence, he happily explained that sitting on the bench allowed him to be able to listen to what his coach was saying to his teammates the entire game. He smiled as he described enjoying the opportunity to carefully watch the game through his coach's eyes, and to think about what he could do better during the next game.<br />
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Do you see what I mean about my golden birthday boy?<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Holden Comes Home</span><br />
Our Holden is all grown up and taking girls to dances. After asking a friend from Orchestra to the Homecoming dance, he went to the spy-themed shindig with a group of friends. . . and he even danced at the dance! My favorite line in his uncharacteristically bubbly, chattering report about the events of the evening when he practically skipped in the door late that night was, "You know what the best part of going to date dances is? You get to know other people's dates!" I think he had a good, good time.<br />
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Peter's blue-eyed grin when he saw how I had transformed him into a lego minifigure for his birthday invitation almost made the pain of the emergency c-section that preceded his actual birth worth it. </div>
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I originally designed this invitation for Peter, but since then, I've created personalized minifigures with a variety of hairstyles and clothing and accessories and even light sabers. (My favorite was a lego stormtrooper that I made to say "This is the birthday party you're looking for!") If you have a lego lover that would like a personalized invitation, go to my etsy shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Lucky7dsigns">here</a></div>
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I think this is one of the first parties I've planned for the under-ten set that didn't involve a "craft project" like painting t-shirts or sewing scarves or rolling around in glitter as part of the party. When I made this fact known to Eric he reminded me that the older kids and I had stayed up late into the night before the party making homemade lego gummies, so he was still counting it as a craft project. </div>
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Our huge lego brick piñata was the quickest, easiest, most indestructible piñata I've ever made. We just wrapped up a diaper box in a red plastic tablecloth and then glued on the tops of red plastic cups. Bam. Lego piñata. </div>
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Each of the kids whacked that over-sized brick with all of their might, but it wouldn't break open until Holden, who towered over the little kids like some sort of pinata-obliterating Goliath, smacked it with an actual baseball bat several times with no blindfold on.<br />
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One of our more extroverted partygoers kept yelling, "It's rigged! It's rigged!" (Why would we rig a birthday pinata? I'm not sure. But the kid wouldn't stop yelling until he was showered in minifigures and candy. Then he stopped complaining.)<br />
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For their party favor, each child received a basket into which I had glued a flat lego base. They also received a bag of crayons shaped like minifigures, lego gummies, a mold to make their own lego gummies and the recipe for lego gummies (Eric says I need to stop saying the word "gummies" now.)<br />
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The only rule was that they had to be on their scooter the whole time. Most of the kids struggled to bring the legos back to their team's corner while trying to maneuver the scooter with their arms.<br />
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The winning team was lucky enough to have a team member who thoughtfully considered how to be able to have his hands free, but still bring back a load of legos to his team. He sat on his scooter, scooped up legos into a big pile in his shirt and then happily scooted back to his team.<br />
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For our final party game, we played Ultimate Lego Head, which is like Ultimate Frisbee, but played with an oversized yellow head. It was mighty funny to watch the kids toss the giant plastic cranium while screaming and yelling and running around.<br />
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Eric and I had been sleuthing for ideas for Sherlock Week for months, plotting the mysterious twists and turns of Camp d'Evegnee 2015. We'd huddle together like Sherlock and Watson on our Friday nights, deducing which of our ideas might help our little detectives have the most exhilarating time, no matter what their age.</div>
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I'll admit that during the last strangling, straggling days of my third semester in a row without a substantial break, I would think to myself while gasping through grading, "As soon as this is over, you can do Sherlock Week!" </div>
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We started off the week with a little lesson about deductive reasoning (you know, as most parents do on their vacation), and then Eric played some logic games with our novice investigators. For dinner our first night, we had "Sherlock's Mystery Meal," which was a four-course meal comprised of giggles, guesswork, and a few groans. The kids had to try and figure out which food or utensil might match with which clue. </div>
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There were some interesting culinary combinations like a complete course with only a knife, pepperoni, chocolate sauce, and a napkin. I've put both the menu and the answer key here. Eric and I used some of our best word-play skills to some up with the clues. I especially liked "Apricot Tree's Fruit" (popcorn), "Piggy Polka Dots" (pepperoni), Jonah's Weekend (whale crackers), Personal Shouting (Ice Cream), and "Favorite of the Lazy Student" (spoon). </div>
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You'll notice that in the photo below, Peter has a full-blown brownie sundae with ice cream, chocolate sauce and whipped cream. I was quite impressed with his deductive ability until the other kids told me that he had been getting brownies and ice cream for more than one course. Peter blatantly ignored the rule about only ordering each thing once, and he said, "Well! I figured out which numbers I needed for the dessert and I just kept ordering them!" (I honestly couldn't decide whether to be appalled or proud. . . maybe a little of each?) Eric and I didn't notice because we were too busy scurrying from the dining room to the kitchen with a total of TWENTY-EIGHT different courses for our greedy gumshoes!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #141823; line-height: 18px;">"I've taken the boy, You can have him back if you can find him. I saw him with you yesterday when I was with my friend, David Saylor, who is an expert on that place. He has even written books about it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #141823; line-height: 18px;">That little boy looks just like my Joseph--the boy I lost in the tragedy on 6/5/76/. That blonde hair and those blue eyes. I thought I would never see him again. We named him after my grandfather, Joseph Ricks. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #141823; line-height: 18px;">If you can find all of the clues i will consider you worthy enough to get him back."</span></span><br />
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Our cute babysitter/caregiver of the kidnapped was reluctant to let me pay her for babysitting. I looked at her seriously, handed her some cash and said, "You have to take it. It's ransom money."Sarah d'http://www.blogger.com/profile/13231168548380832694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674007606880253237.post-92186047768262400992015-10-30T23:59:00.000-07:002016-01-07T23:02:49.656-08:00 Jurrasic Camp d'Evegnee 2015<br />
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For phase one of Camp d'Evegnee this year, we decided to have a mini-session at the end of June to tide us over until Eric and I finished school at the end of July. The theme really chose us because of one of the summer blockbusters. To say that we were a little excited to see Jurassic World would be like saying Doctor Allen Grant is just a little handsome.<br />
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When our three oldest were just wee little ones, we had more dinosaurs than articles of clothing in our house. There were times when our trio believed that they had been hatched rather than born.<br />
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We watched cartoons, movies, and documentaries about dinosaurs until our video tapes were wearing thin. The boys knew more about Dr. Sue Hendrickson the Paleontologist than they did about Bob the Builder. They could pronounce words like "diplodocus" and "ankylosaurus" through their baby teeth before they could recite their ABC's.<br />
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We winced with just a tad of guilt when we showed them Jurassic Park on video tape when Holden was three because we were worried it might scare them. As the credits rolled and John Williams' score soared, our guilt was completed abated. The only time they had been scared was when the T-Rex seemed to be in danger. "Mom?" they asked with fear in their eyes, "Did the dinosaurs get hurt?"<br />
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We quickly realized that rather than identifying with the humans, our tribe identified with and sympathized with the dinosaurs. Jurassic Park soon became a regular in our family movie night rotation.<br />
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We even dressed up as Jurassic Park one year for Halloween:<br />
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This summer, we couldn't resist watching one Jurassic Park movie each day on the days leading up to our outing to take all seven kids to see Jurassic World. There. I admitted it. We took every single one of our kids to see Jurassic World. And we took them to see the. . . late. . . show. (I will look away while you judge me.). </div>
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This one was easily my favorite in the world-play menu. When Caleb came up with this one, I thought my professorial heart would burst.</div>
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This is an actual photo of the ribs we ate for dinner, and as I was taking the photo, the kids said, "Mom! Wouldn't it be cool if you could photoshop the ribs so they looked like they were being lowered into the raptor's pen at feeding time?" How could I resist?</div>
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When we went to Utah for our family reunion only days later, I took Charlie to Build-a-Bear while all of the other kids were at Grandma and Grandpa Camp. I think he might be just a little thrilled out of his mind about this T-Rex. It was the whipped cream on the jell-o of our Jurassic Park Week.Sarah d'http://www.blogger.com/profile/13231168548380832694noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674007606880253237.post-71122413934980546152015-10-11T19:26:00.001-07:002015-10-11T19:27:55.501-07:00Volume XI, issue vi, July 2015<span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: large;">The Hafen Family Reunion 2015</span><br />
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Since the older kids/craft slaves were with my parents at Grandma and Grandpa Camp, Eric helped me paint dozens of t-shirts until the wee, small hours of the morning. He wouldn't ever tell you that he loved being part of my crafty assembly line, but he did admit that he tolerated it because he loves me. That, my friends, is progress.<br />
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For part of the family reunion, we were all able to go to Lagoon, the amusement park in Utah that my parents used to take us to if we would practice our musical instruments during the summer.<br />
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After dragging my three teens around Lagoon all day like some teenaged amuse park cruise director, I allowed them to take a break at my brother, Jon's house for some dinner and then I forced two of my teens back to the park with me so we could make ourselves sick on rides until the minute the park closed.<br />
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When I heard that my sister, Rachel, had sweetly said, "Wow. Sarah took the boys back to Lagoon? She is the best mom!" I laughed out loud.<br />
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Holden and Caleb were quite reluctant to go on the newest ride in the park, (appropriately named Cannibal) which had only been operational for a half day before we arrived. I cajoled them with all of the maternal persuasion I could muster. Some mothers plead with their kids to eat their vegetables or to finish their homework.<br />
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I begged mine to please go on the insane roller-coaster with me. "Please? Please? It won't be that scary. I'm your mother! You have to defy death with me just this once!"<br />
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There are two unfortunate facts about this photo. The first one is that Caleb's hair and face are reminiscent of the famous Nick Nolte mugshot. . .<br />
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and the second one is that the photo doesn't do the event it represents justice because I couldn't sneak the photo shoot in until the day after said events took place because I didn't want Caleb to be mad at me. I had to wait until he wasn't sure why I was taking the photo (hence the mugshot aura about the whole thing). I circled the affected area so you could see it, but it is a mere echo of what it had been the day before. Trust me, though. It was bad. Very, very bad.<br />
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During a Saturday trip to the local dollar store, Charlie had picked out a water toy that uses a "pump action" to suction water and then spray it like a squirt gun.<br />
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The involuntarily gasp that escaped my lips as I jumped with shock was probably a lot quieter than it should have been, considering the 3 inch wine-colored hickey that gaped at me from right between Caleb's baffled brown eyes. Without thinking it completely through, I said, "What in the world happened?" </div>
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I applied a thick layer of my cover-up powder to his forehead, which covered the mark of shame enough for it to be just barely visible. During Sacrament Meeting, Eric and I smirked at each other as Caleb self-consciously passed the Sacrament to the Bishop and his counselors, who didn't seem to notice the scarlet "O" between his shy eyes. </div>
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I had to prod Eve just a little to get her to come with me to the orientation for the "Challenge Class" last summer, and after the orientation, the two of us were the perfect models for the masks of comedy and tragedy. On the way home, I started my wide-mouthed gushing before I noticed Eve's downcast visage. I knew that this was a rare moment when a little nudge forward was required. Ironically, she gave me the same look of disbelief that I gave my parents when they nudged me into a rigorous private school as a shy 14-year-old. I told Eve about my experience there, and how it had opened the blinds on my brain, and had changed my world beautifully for the better. I could tell she still had her doubts.<br />
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It was a mere matter of days before her teacher, Mr Durfee, changed her mind. He is the quintessential "cool" teacher in every movie that glamorizes teachers. He was the Miss Stacy to Eve's Anne Shirley this year and Eve's relationship with books, numbers, and ideas will never be the same. Eve and her classmates hunkered down for hours, even working all day the Saturday before, to prepare for their "History Museum," which involved working in small groups to present different eras of American History. Eve chose the "Progressive Era" and specialized in the topics of women's rights and child labor. (Of course we had to tease her about going in to school to work all day Saturday.)<br />
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The last day of school we offered Mr Durfee a bouquet of books rather than a bouquet of flowers, knowing how when you choose a profession that involves teaching out of the best books, being able to buy them becomes a luxury.<br />
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I asked Eve to inscribe one of the books in the bouquet and this is what she wrote:</div>
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At the beginning of the school year I was very nervous, but now after learning how great you are and how I can triumph in this class, I feel like I can do anything. </div>
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I have loved to hear your funny stories and jokes, but what I've found is that the best part is the way you teach. I used to hate math and thought that it was boring. Now I think math is wonderful.</div>
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I love the way you do everything and keep doing it that way. I am so grateful I am in your class.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Breaking Boy II or The Royal Toilet Decree</span><br />
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Perhaps it was all of the reading about women's rights that inspired Eves official bathroom door declaration, or maybe it was simply having to share a bathroom with a younger brother whose mind tends to wander during even the most basic of tasks.<br />
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Eve posted this note on the bathroom door after an unfortunate "incident"<br />
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The note says, "From now on by royal decree you must clean up after yourself!!! And if you have already made a mess then clean it up!!! I'm serious!" I'd say that this note is a "Royal Flush." I especially adore how the happy little character cleaning up is singing, "Clean up. Clean up, everybody, everywhere."<br />
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I received a phone call last week informing me that our Marie had won a new pair of shoes for running the most number of laps in her grade during what they call "pacers." When I informed her about her victory, Marie's face broke into the cutest overwhelmed smile and she said, "Really?"<br />
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She received the nicest pair of running shoes anyone in our family has ever owned and started running laps around the house as soon as she put them on. Eric keeps threatening to steal them from her, and she ignores his teasing patiently.<br />
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The cheer evident in her self-portrait seen above and in the photo of her on the right with her "play glasses" is pretty much consistent with her daily demeanor.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Marie Turns Seven and Mom is in Heaven</span></div>
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The most significant event this month (and maybe even my life!) was Marie's Annie birthday party.<br />
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When I was ten-years-old, nothing seemed as romantic as being a red-headed orphan. On Sunday nights, my sister and I would spend starry-eyed hours in the living room, passionately belting out "Tomorrow" and "Maybe" as our own Daddy Warbucks accompanied us on the "piana." As we resolutely shouted out the chorus to song after song, my oldest brother would growl from the basement, "Stop! Yelling!" and we would smile and just keep on singing because we knew that "belting it" was how it was supposed to be done.<br />
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For Christmas that year, my parents surprised me with tickets to see Annie in Salt Lake City on my birthday only a few weeks later. I couldn't have been more pleased if they had announced I was going to NYC and leaving Miss Hannigan's orphanage. It wasn't long after that that I wrote, directed, and starred in a play for my class at school about an orphan girl with a cat. I brought our feral feline, Muffy, to play my pet, and was forced to exit the production in shame as the poor, nervous creature fouled up the carpet in the classroom. I still remember crying as I trekked up the hill to our house, carrying Muffy as she tried to claw her way free.<br />
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So when Marie quietly whispered to me a few months ago, "I think I'd like to have an Annie party for my birthday" the ten-year-old in me started singing and I didn't tell her to stop yelling. Not one bit.<br />
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I tried to avoid tearing up constantly as our Peter Pan collared-crew sang their little hearts out at the same piano where I used to sing on Sunday nights. I don't look like I'm having any fun at all. . .<br />
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Marie and all of her girly guests agreed that "The Search for Sandy" was their favorite event of the party. Caleb snuck outside while we were singing and knocked at the front door. I rushed to the door and said dramatically, "I wonder who THAT could be!"<br />
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In his best English accent, Caleb/The Butler exclaimed with urgency, "I have a letter for Annie from Daddy Warbucks!" I was going for my birthday party Emmy during this part of the game, and gasped and ooo-ed and aaah-ed just like I did when I was in the chorus of all of those theatrical productions as a child. <br />
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The girls raced to find each paw print with such speed and determination that I could barely keep up with their mary-janed feet. They huffed and puffed their way down the sidewalk and up the hill, screaming with glee as they found each one in our path of paw prints until we finally arrived at our kind neighbor's house that made the perfect Warbucks Manor.<br />
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Eric greeted us the door, complete with bald cap and suit, and exclaimed that we had not only found Sandy, but that we had found a Sandy for each girl! True love is when you dress up and act like Daddy Warbucks without grumbling about it just because you know it will make your wife happy. As excited as the girls were, I can say that I was probably more thrilled than any of them as we handed each overwhelmed girl her own little plush dog.<br />
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Yes. I wanted to sing "I don't need anything but you" to that absolutely charming fellow on the right. He couldn't be any more wonderful, and yet sometimes he gets more wonderful with each passing party, costume, and year.<br />
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I had been planning for months and absolutely swooned when I found the perfect puppies and the most wonderful golden lockets at a discount online. I couldn't resist making "bottom dollars" out of chocolate. I couldn't stop myself from letting little girls become dripping--not with diamonds or pearls, but with chocolate and caramel as they dipped their "Big Apples." Oh! There was sun! It was like it was tomorrow. . . . all day long.<br />
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After last lear's all-out tribute to spring-time revelry was such a success, our family decided that d'Evegnee Skip Day definitely needed to be "a thing" (hence the use of capital letters on skip and day). As Eric and I started trudging through the academic muck of the last week of Winter Semester, we would look at each other in the trenches, covered with comma splices, mixed-metaphors, and faulty logic and say, "If we can last just a few more days and grade just a few more papers, we can have d'Evegnee Skip Day and then everything will be okay."</div>
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And we made it! We chose one of the two days between when grades were due and when we needed to start getting ready for the next semester. Everything about the day was full of planned laziness and deliberate gluttony. After making "la grasse matinée," (which is one of my favorite French idioms because it means "sleeping in," but has a literal translation of "fat morning," which was much more <i>a propos</i> for our beloved Skip Day) we started with a trip to our favorite Tacqueria (aka "The Taco Bus" even though it isn't actually a bus) and hooky-ed ourselves up with nine of the most delicious breakfast burritos known to truancy kind, and we could immediately feel ourselves "sluffing off" the stress of the past 8 months. </div>
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Then we went across the street to the church gym and played a rousing game of live Hungry Hungry Hippos, which involves using balloons instead of marbles, and people hooked to bungee cords while clinging to scooters for dear life instead of plastic hippos. Holden figured out a brilliant way to fling his smaller teammates out to the balloons with impressive speed. </div>
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We then rushed down to the movie theater for a practically private screening of Cinderella and had buckets of refillable popcorn and candy for lunch before heading to our favorite pizzeria for dinner. (Don't tell me I didn't warn you.)</div>
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I have to confess, though, that my favorite part of the day came as we paid for our pizza. The tiny Ririe pizza joint is popular enough to coax crowds to drive the extra fifteen minutes to enjoy its New York-style pizza, and occasionally ends up with more customers than it can handle. The owner of the restaurant was at their new Idaho Falls location, leaving inexperienced high-school employees to hold down the fort. Our cute Idahoan waitress, who looked to be about seventeen, was scurrying around the whole evening, cheerfully trying to explain to customers why the wait was so long or informing them that they were out of crucial ingredients like "dough," and had to run to the store to get more. We watched her get yelled at more than once by hungry and frustrated patrons, but she still eked out a tired smile after each encounter. She was kind, patient, and professional despite the less-than-ideal situation, and by the end of the evening I could tell she was about to start crying. When I went to pay our bill, I praised her for her attitude and her hard work and decided to donate my profits for the weekend from my etsy shop to her. When she saw the fifty dollar tip, her mouth dropped open, and she stammered, "You can't do that!" I responded with "Of course I can! You earned it! I am so impressed with you and you deserve it!" She burst into overwhelmed tears and fled to the bathroom.</div>
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Eric saw her rush away to the bathroom and asked me, "What did you do to her?" I teared up myself as I explained what had happened. It was worth a few hours of designing invitations to be able to do something that I have always dreamed of doing, but have never had the extra money to spare. </div>
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A few days before her birthday, I asked Marie to make a birthday wish list for me that included what she wanted for gifts as well as what she wanted me to concoct for her birthday dinner.<br />
Her list (seen above) included:<br />
Frozen Pack (for Disney Infinity)<br />
Life Jacket<br />
Skylanders<br />
Peanut Butter M&M's<br />
A Happy Birthday<br />
In my opinion, anyone who ends their wish list like that definitely deserves to have a happy birthday!<br />
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You also need to notice that below her wish list for gifts is the exclamatory disclaimer: "You don't have to!"<br />
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She is as sweet as she looks in these photos.<br />
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You'll notice a wide variety of mango appetizers on her birthday plate. Several weeks before her birthday, she had tried some mangoes at school for a lesson on nutrition, and had become completely smitten by the fruit. She asked me what I could make for her birthday dinner using mangoes, and I told her we could do some fish tacos with mango salsa and a mango cheesecake for dessert, which is exactly what she asked for.<br />
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Eric and I left Holden in charge for roughly 22 hours while we snuck away to Jackson for an idyllic birth-iversary celebration (the weekend that falls between our anniversary the end of March and Eric's birthday on the 7th of April). The off-season rates at the resort combined with the company of my favorite guy made for an almost unbearably lovely time. Two geese at the resort kept reminding us of Leslie Norris' poem, "Hudson's Geese," and somehow Eric managed to capture them in connected flight. (If you don't know the poem, you can read it <a href="http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Hudson-rsquo-s-geese-6869"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">here</span></a>.)<br />
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When we got home, Holden told us about how the kids had discussed the particular strength that each one showcased during our absence. Our sweet seven put their adorable heads together and concocted a list of awards that makes those the academy offers look like superficial drivel.<br />
Holden: Handler of Everything<br />
Ethan: Best Cook<br />
Caleb: Baby Whisperer<br />
Eve: Most Willing<br />
Peter: Best TV Expert<br />
Marie: Most Enthusastic<br />
Charlie: Best Producer of Feces<br />
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I'm going to go against the tide of conventional parental wisdom and say that I love teenagers! We now have three of them, so that might kind of make me an expert. When I knew teenage boys in junior high and high school I had no idea they could be so fun to hang out with (but that's probably because I was obsessing over the height of my hair rather than enjoying their company).<br />
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Caleb asked for Mount Doom Burgers (seen <a href="http://recipeparty.blogspot.com/2012/08/lord-of-rings-recipes.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">here</span></a> on our recipe blog [and PS Did you know that if you google "Mount Doom Burgers" our blog is the first thing that comes up? We're marginally famous.]) and cheesecake for his birthday dinner. I decided that when one turns thirteen one certainly cannot have any ordinary cheesecake, so I made up this Chocolate Butterfinger Cheesecake Cake that has two layers of chocolate cake glued to a layer of cheesecake with chocolate ganache and is then speckled with crushed butterfingers and garnished with whipped cream and chocolate and caramel zig-zags (and I supposed that if it takes that long to describe, it's probably just a hair too complicated for its own good).<br />
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The look of shock and adolescent glee that overtook Caleb's face when he saw his birthday cake made me so happy that I actually enjoyed that look more than the cake itself (and that is saying something. . . I mean, look at that delight-filled monstrosity!)Sarah d'http://www.blogger.com/profile/13231168548380832694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674007606880253237.post-48398411636612223382015-05-08T09:10:00.001-07:002015-05-22T14:05:26.160-07:00ANNIE Birthday Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">The Littlest Leprechaun</span><br />
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Our littlest leprechaun is transitioning into more "adult" ways of expressing himself and leaving some of the "baby speak" behind. This month he said one of our favorites for the last time. It pained me to hear him say "Macaroni and Cheese" because we all adored how he referred to it as "Pony Cheese."<br />
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One day before Joy School, I informed him that he'd be going to Abby's house that day. His expressive rose-bud lips opened wide in horror and he exclaimed: "At Abby's house there are people! BABY people! And they hit!" Abby has a two-year-old brother who is currently a "non-hitter in training."<br />
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The other moms were green with envy because I was the one who got to have Joy School at her house on St. Patrick's day. These cute three-year-olds were shocked and amazed at all of the leprechaun footprints running up our front walk and over our front door and into our house. When they followed the footprints into the kitchen and saw the dirty dishes that Holden had left undone the night before, they gasped. Knowing that three-year-olds are the most horribly awful and terrifyingly vocal judges of the state of cleanliness of one's house, I usually end up stressing out as I am scrubbing and straightening and fine-tuning the house before they get here. But on St Patrick's Day, I had deliberately decided to let the dirty dishes wait for Holden to get home from school rather than doing them myself because I had concocted a wonderful, awful, grinchy idea.<br />
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I immediately said with enthusiasm, "Oh my goodness! Look what the LEPRECHAUN did!! Can you believe he left such a mess!" These professional cleanliness critics were uniformly disgusted and appalled. I grinned and enjoyed their toddler indignation, knowing that for once it wasn't directed at me or my house.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">I Triple Dog DARE You</span><br />
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Our Eve was one of the winners of the DARE program's essay contest. She's like a brunette version Anne of Green Gables, but with a sense of irony.<br />
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We got a text from Eric's sister, Noelle, in March asking us to facetime her. When we did, Noelle, Marvin, and Matthew were eating dinner at a restaurant, so they asked us to call back in an hour. When they gave us the fantastic news that they'll be moving to Boise, we all cheered aloud and danced around. Eve cried out, "I knew it! I knew it!<br />
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I asked her how she knew it, and she replied, "Well, I just looked at context clues and made an inference." Well, of course you did, Eve! She continued matter-of-factly, "They were eating at a restaurant for dinner. You usually eat at a restaurant whey you're stressed or when you have something to celebrate. I thought that if they were moving closer to us that maybe they would be stressed about moving, but excited to move closer to us." Thanks, my adorable little Sherlock.<br />
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When details about her day at school came gushing forth at the dinner-table as they usually do, Eve described an assignment her teacher had given them which required her and a partner to establish a government for their own country. She took a pause between lively adjectives and said, "It was quite intense!"<br />
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She leaned forward in her seat as we ran an errand together and asked, "Do you know what caused me great sorrow, Mom?" I couldn't imagine what would cause my cheerfully empathetic little sprite that kind of sadness. She went on, "At the end of a book I just finished they didn't say whether the main character died or not. They implied it. . . but they didn't come right and say it!"<br />
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In the following video, you will hear the 5th graders at Madison Middle School belt out what each of the letters in DARE stands for. Listen carefully for how it says that "E" means "I will Educate Me." Nice. I'm going to go and have a stroke now.<br />
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Holden has a friend that we refer to as his "Book Buddy." They sit on the bus together and talk about books (and if they talk about other things, I don't want to know about it). Her 16th birthday was this month, and Holden wanted to return a cherished book she had let him borrow with a bookmark that asked her out on a date. He quoted the book and incorporated the exposition into his question. He also made her a giant chocolate chip cookie to sweeten the deal.<br />
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It was pretty darn cute if I do say so myself. How could she possibly refuse? (If you're wondering how I got such a cute side-by-side comparison photo when I obviously don't live at her house, I have to admit that I'm friends with her Mom and we text sometimes. . . about our kids. . . and things.)<br />
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Holden picked her up for the date after a hearty helping of dating etiquette advice from his parents. I told him that he shouldn't pick her up one minute earlier than he had said he would, which meant that the friend he was doubling with was waiting for him at the restaurant for about three entire minutes. Holden received a panicked phone call from his friend (who was also on his first date) saying, "Where are you, Dude?" Thank goodness I never have to return to such gloriously awkward moments!<br />
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Holden and his date were on the opposite end of the stress spectrum and just enjoyed each others company as good friends. (Stop it! Stop thinking that I'm in denial just because I'm his mother! They are really just friends. Stop it! Why are you laughing at me like that?)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Caleb's First Sacrament Meeting Talk</span><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-d83ccd23-8ba9-d7b1-0394-e39c77832cce" style="font-weight: normal;"></b>Please imagine our wonderfully understated boy standing in front of a congregation of about 300 people wearing his yellow bow-tie and suit-coat with a constant grin wiggling only at the corners of his mouth and threatening to overtake his face.<br />
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Somehow sweet Caleb managed to appear completely somber to the casual observer, even when the audience was cracking up as his dry wit.<br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-d83ccd23-8ba9-d7b1-0394-e39c77832cce" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Good morning….For my topic I chose “Are we really converted to the church?” We read in Luke 22:32 (read scripture) I thought that was an important message “Art thou converted?” An example of trying to be more converted is when I was told to give a talk for example. I didn’t want to do it but, I tried to stay positive about it. I wasn’t as converted as I could have been but I did it. . . but I didn’t do it with very much willingness. </span></span></b></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-d83ccd23-8ba9-d7b1-0394-e39c77832cce" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Another example is a story about my great grandpa, Orval Hafen. Orval was in a stake presidency in St. George, Utah that had a small town in Arizona called Mt Trumbull that was in their stake boundaries. He wrote in his journal about three brethren on the high council who were assigned to drive sixty miles on Sunday to visit the saints in Mt. Trumbull. There was a gravel road that was rough on their cars and the branch was so far away from St. George. Two of them would groan and make excuses not to go.One of them complained that the stake presidency always assigned him to go. The stake presidency found out that this brother had only been once in the past three years. Orval contrasted this man with their youngest high councilor who was always willing to go. Orval wrote that this young man was “always willing to perform every call we have made on him.” Orval then wrote, “Is a man really converted if he isn’t willing to make a sacrifice for [the church]?” I like Orval’s point . Imagine what would happen if people wouldn’t sacrifice for the church. Things wouldn’t get done. People might not come to church and many other things. </span></span></b></div>
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