Author: Adam

  • Sleeping, Sneaking and Snips

    Sleeping, Sneaking and Snips

    The big topic of conversation around our house this week has been sleep. We’re obsessed with it — and trying to get more of it. Well at least some of us are trying to get more of it. Sometimes it seems like James is trying to stay up all day and all night. I jest, of […]

  • “He was born, lived, suffered & died for us and I know it!” — Grandpa Thomas (Gordon Monson Thomas) Christmas 2010  

  • “Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it.” — David Starr Jordan

  •   “I love this quote… “To the world you may be just one person… “But to one person you may be the world.”

  • Going to the temple

    Going to the temple

    The most exciting thing that happened this week was that we got to go to the temple with our family. Our friends that we usually trade babysitting with to go to the temple had to cancel on us at the last minute to help with some family things. We decided that rather than cancel our […]

  • “Nothing is every lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, cost nothing, and conveys much.” — Erastus Wiman

  • “Sympathizers are spectators; Empathizers wear game shoes.” — John Eyberg

  • The week of scouts

    The week of scouts

    It seems like I had more scout things to do this week than norma. In fact, that’s basically all I can think about right now so I apologize in advance if this seems a bit one sided. (Also Sarah’s in bed already trying to avoid getting sick so she’s not here to help me remember.) […]

  • Something every night

    Something every night

    We had something going on every night this week. All of them were good things and we had a good time doing them. On Monday we had our normal family home evening. It was pretty good. Eliza is getting better and better at singing. When we have family home evening she has to go get […]

  • “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” — Hellen Keller