Author Archives: Giggles

Not Ready

Categories: Family, Gospel, Life

In just over a week Shimri and Shimei will be 18 months old. You’re not alone, I’m not sure how that happened so fast either. Because they can’t possibly be that old already. I know I’m definitely not ready for them to be that old. I keep focusing on the word “may” in the instructions above. They may start nursery at 18 months, but they don’t have to. So maybe I’ll just keep them with me for a while longer. Keep reading

Batty about Family Home Evening

Categories: Family, Featured, Gospel, With the Kiddos

This is how one thing led to another and we had a bat-themed Family Home Evening last night. … We had bat cookies for the treat, made bat decorations for the activity, and Brett figured out a 3-year-old appropriate gospel lesson related to bats. Keep reading

Remember

Categories: Life

Terrorists had tried to instill fear and separation with the result of us coming together in love and unity. Fifteen years later we don’t need the terrorists to separate us, we’re doing a pretty good job of that on our own. We would do better to remember the good that day brought out in everyone, remember to believe in the good we all have in us. Keep reading

Olympic Stuffs and the Closing Ceremonies

Categories: Olympics

And the last of the commentary from our crack team of commentators. … Join us in 2018 when we not only commentate on the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, but also compete in our very own Living Room Figure Skating competition. Should be some exciting stuff. Keep reading

Go Olympic Person!

Categories: Olympics

Some more thoughts from our Olympic commentating team of Brett, Amanda, Iddo, and myself. This time from Friday through Tuesday. Keep reading

I am very Olympic Today

Categories: Featured, Olympics, With the Kiddos

We’ve found several ways to incorporate the Olympic Rings in our week. And now Iddo is pointing out the Olympic circles every time she sees them. All three kids did some Olympic Rings art. We had Olympic Rings hair. And we all enjoyed our Olympic Rings dips dinner. Keep reading

Olympic ponderings

Categories: Olympics

Thoughts from me, Amanda, Brett, and Iddo on the Olympics from Monday through Thursday night. Because we are awesome Olympic commentators. Enjoy! Also, clearly I should do these more often because this one gets long. Keep reading