Hulu Plus

Running pumpkins to the front porch, boxes to the back porch, cartons to recycling, pumpkin guts to compost...now that I'm watching Hulu Plus, I wonder, how did I ever clean the kitchen without commercials?

On Picture Selection

My husband set up a touchpad to display a random selection of the photos we've taken over the years. It flips through fun memories of camping trips, the solar eclipse we rushed to Utah for a few years ago, cousins, babies, and all sorts of wonderful things. But since my husband rarely culls his photography collection, and since he's set it to pick any photo, we also get other pictures: a blurry photo one of my kids took, a photo of pH strips from last year's science fair project, a photo Lar took on a ward service project of a random person's fusebox.

I keep meaning to point out that this is kind of silly. Why display pictures of a stranger's fusebox when we could limit our selection to beautiful pictures of our beautiful children in beautiful places? But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe using random selection is a better way to remember that life itself is full of good experiences, bad experiences, and meaningless ones. Maybe we need a reminder that life isn't just fun adventures to clear mountain lakes. We also need fuseboxes.

On the Love of Christ

I have heard the stories of Jarius and of the woman healed by touching Jesus's robe many times. But it was only when I opened to the chapter in Mark that I realized something I'd never known before: these two events happened at the same time. Jarius approached Jesus and begged him to heal his dying daughter. As he led Jesus to his home, the woman with the issue of blood reached out to touch Jesus's robe, hoping to be healed. Jesus turned, found her, and spoke to her, and she was healed. Only then did Jesus continue to Jarius's house, where the young girl was also healed.

Jesus reached out to bless and heal those in need even while he was hastening to help others in need. What a testimony to me of the way Jesus cares for all individuals, and all of us!

Rebecca says

I may be little...but I am a big sister!

Girls do Literary

Me, Katherine, baby--and Susan Cooper!

Daddy Dresses Baby for Church

Dress plus fleece pants and wool socks.

Garden produce

I almost gave up on planting beans, since it was July when I finally got around to thinking about it. But it wasn't a waste after all!
And it turns out that my kids really like eating green beans raw, especially Rebecca. So we enjoyed these!