This FHE lesson might come in handy this Monday. Or for several FHEs this month. You can download the whole file here. Enjoy the rest of Conference today.
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 I like to do stuff. Caeden (our 2 year old) likes to do stuff. We are both happier when we are doing SOMETHING! I've been looking into "homeschool preschool" and discovered two things: you can be one of those moms who has a curriculum or you can be one of those moms who says "life is learning!" I'm a little bit of both because I'm inherently lazy. I know if I say something like, "Letters from 10:00-10:15" it won't happen...but I still want to have some sort of activity schedule for this Spring and Summer. Enter: the homeschool preschool bucket list! (You can download a weekly activity planner at the end of this post!) Munchie Monday: Where we make a yummy food! Probably a breakfast food or other food (like rolls! or freezer meals--which I might do since I'm expecting in May) that can be used throughout the week. Specifically these:
 Photo from Spring 2013 I've made a weekly activity planner that you can fill out weekly. Download it here, or click on the image below and save as. What would you add to the list?   Love & kisses and Valentine's day all go together so well!  Here's my gift to the Boyfriend. This was so easy to do - red lipstick, pucker up, put it to paper, sign. Bam! Done. Well, except the framing part. But still pretty easy. So I thought I'd share. Then I thought to myself, self, how easy it would be to make it into a downloadable. If you aren't inclined to do your own, then just - print, sign, frame. Wham Bam!  Click the image for the Download page • 8.5" x 11"  Prints to fit a 8" x 10" frame (Pink lips)  Click the above image for the Download page • 5" x 7"  Prints to fit a 5" x 7" frame (Red lips) So what do you think? If you like it, share the Valentine love.  More Tabletop Toasting.  Click Image Above to Download
 Here's a nestible, Ring Thing for you.  Click on Image Above for Download  Parties are everywhere right now. This might be something that works for you. Tabletop toasting.  Click Image Above for Download
Add Toppings. Mini Chocolate Chips. Caramel Sundae Sauce. Chocolate Covered Toffee Bits. Chocolate Sundae Sauce. Chopped Nuts.  Here's a nestible, Ring Thing for you.  Click Image Above for Download   Alisha's awesome selfie. Hello lovely people! We've been kind of quiet...and that's because we are on vacay!! (aka vacation). We are meeting up with some of my aunties (mom's sisters--a few of them are over at Creative Mommas) this week in San Diego. We're currently in Oceanside to see our little Marine (can I even call him that? he'd be so embarrassed), and missing Leila. By the way, have you ever been to Camp Pendleton?? The place is HUGE. Not the point. The point of this post is to tell you that we are just being slow to respond to things because we're playing. and to share some ridiculous selfies of Alisha...because, why not? We didn't want our new nestie subscribers to be sad :( because, we really do like you. Don't worry, we'll be back!  Oceanside Beach. I feared that those surfers would become shark bait.
 Look what I got today. I talked about it here. Just wanted to share that I love it. Choose to be happy! 
Did any of you use last week's Short and Sweet FHE idea? Here is one for this week! SING: Nephi's Courage SAY: 1 Nephi 3:7 SHOW: Tools needed to build a boat (like a hammer). You can liken the boat to testimony. SWEET: Swedish fish (or gold fish!) 
Alisha did a graphic design "Kind Words" here and put it to a t-shirt. It made me think that I wanted to have Leila's words, "I Choose to be Happy" and Alisha's design on a t-shirt so I could order it. Alisha did it for me. (Thanks Alisha) When I went to look at it I saw these other things.
But then I saw this pillow and decided that I wanted this instead. 
Click on the photo to take you to the pillows.
Not that you have to buy anything. I just thought I'd share because it made me happy. 
Baby Joseph's Dad, Sky, called me today to share something Leila wrote. He found it on her iPad and it touched him. It was her mother wishes she wanted for Joseph. I don't know if she was finished with her list but it was enough. 
The reality is that Joseph will never know Leila in this life and will have another mother to raise him. He'll be caught up in life and won't have a need to know her. But I suspect many years from now, likely when he's an adult, he'll wonder. He might be drawn to a few of the mementos that connect directly to her. They might give a glimpse of who she was and how she thought. Maybe he'll see a little of himself in her. So today I spent some of my time putting her words into design for him. 
This is a post no mother (father, sister, brother, spouse...) wants to write. Writing it makes it even more real. And the realness of it hurts my heart. My daughter Leila died this month. 
I'd like it to all go away - the middle of the night phone call; the realization that something was very wrong; the birth of her child a month early; a devastated spouse; her father far away in the middle of the ocean; doctors, nurses and tests; understanding a blood hemorrhage on the brain stem; the week in intensive care; the baby in newborn intensive care; organ matching and donating; a grieving family; and a funeral. And that is just the beginning. Obviously it's effected our family deeply. My emotions are raw and I'm at a loss on several levels. Leila's my daughter and my friend. The phrase 'a heart breaking to pieces' is no longer a metaphor for me. It was and is very real. As LDS members, we know of the Plan of Salvation, have an understanding of Eternal Life, and that our family can be together again. But for now, it hurts. Leila was a part of LDS NEST and her being gone effects what happens here. I've changed. Alisha's changed. We need time to figure out what that feels like and what it looks like for LDS NEST. The one decision we could make is that we will stop with our monthly Newsletter and Notes for a time. I'd like to be able to give more detail about what that means for the subscription but I don't know. I just know we need time. We're likely to still post on this blog. It will help us. Maybe it'll help you too. Lastly, know that the Lord has worked through so many good, good people with a remarkable outpouring of love for our family. We've not been left alone. There's more on my mind and heart that I want to share but for now this is all I can do.
This research into the 3 different lives that lead to happiness answers a few questions that some of us have. Namely, how can people who do contrary to the Lord's gospel be happy? And how can people who do and sacrifice so much for the gospel still be happy? The principles and practices our LDS lifestyle matched up to the happy life ideas Seligman talks about might give a little insight. (MY thoughts are listed below in pink.)   Click on the title and it will take you to the talk I believe there are three different... happy lives. - Martin Seligman 1 • THE PLEASANT LIFE
2 • THE ENGAGED LIFE 3 • THE MEANINGFUL LIFE
RESULTS "... we ask the question as a function of the three different lives, how much life satisfaction do you get?" It turns out the pursuit of pleasure has almost no contribution to life satisfaction.... Where pleasure matters is if you have both engagement and you have meaning, then pleasure's the whipped cream and the cherry. It was interesting to see which areas I spend my time doing and my relative happiness. So, really I shouldn't be weary in well-doing. So should the phrase be, 'don't weary, be happy'? Okay, I'll say it, "uhh No!" Looking at this, lives 2 & 3 are where I want to be most. But I do like a little whipped cream pleasure in my life.
What would you add to these lists?  Bumper Stickers. I've never put one on a car of mine. I never wanted anything on my cars. Ever. I've thought a number of stickers were funny. Or clever. Or thoughtful. But, nothing motivated me enough to actually break that no-bumper-sticker-on-my-car barrier. Until my son became a Marine. That's what changed the idea for me. I didn't even hesitate at the thought. It was too important a message for me. It was going to go on my car. No question. So, what's inspired you enough to put a bumper sticker on your car? Something comical? Political? Sentimental? What? Tell us.  
Our July Issue is ready today for our LDS Nesties. Fun celebrate summer ideas. Not a member yet? Join up here. Here's a peek at some of the sections of the Newsletter & Notes.
 Do you still need an idea for a unique Father's Day gift? Here's an easy one: make a profile poster like the one above! All you need is a picture and some facts about the father in your life. I created this on the computer, but you can use an actual poster or paper and hand write everything. It's a great idea for kids to write down all the things they love about their dad!  This post is part of a promotion with FamilySearch.
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