B+C+B+C+B+C: November 2019

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Snugglebug

Got the kids to bed at a decent time so I'm up only semi-late working on computer projects (fam calendar time!). And who comes wandering up the stairs?! My half-asleep half-baby. During the day she's a big girl. At night... she turns right back into that tiny little ball of joy I brought home from the hospital in November 2013. I remember so clearly just plopping down in bed and scooping her up next to me. Forget the bassinet. This was baby #4, I knew what worked - cosleeping. She snuggled into me and has been there ever since. Her little body just melds into mine as she sleeps. Even as she's gotten older and moved into her own beds... she often wakes up and wanders into ours. Like a sleepy sneaky little ninja. Luckily brian loves it just as much as I do.
We know she won't do this forever. We've gotta enjoy it while we can. And we do!

Temple date with mom

Loved serving in the temple today with mom💛💛 especially doing the ordinances for a relative!

Bennett’s dentist appt

He looks calm now... but the majority of the time he was freeeeeaking out 😣😑😫

Courtney leading family scripture study

Come Follow Me - studying the book of James

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

New jammies from nonny

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Oh Courtney...

She reads her scriptures using a little flashlight and magnifying glass. It's the cutest thing in the world.

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Bennett on my phone...

Brianna LOVES advanced math tutoring 😂

I'm grateful we can get Rachel Stumm over here to help with Brianna's "Math is Cool" homework... cuz she's now at the point where much of it is a little over my head!

Waiting for Nonny

Charity’s art

Monday, November 11, 2019

3 front teeth gone! 🦷

All she wants for Christmas are her THREE front teeth!

Sunday, November 10, 2019

Always my baby

She turned 6 today.
That stings a bit.
I asked her if she could just stay 5.
She replied, "that's what you asked me last year - to stay four. But you just get one whole year at every number!"
Oh my little Charity.
You may talk like a big girl and walk like a big girl... but you crawl into our bed every night like the baby you'll always be.

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Brianna and Lily PBJ

Quotes I want to remember

"The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain."
- Neal A. Maxwell

"It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men's theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother's influence."
-Ezra Taft Benson

“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. And bear your testimony! Don’t just assume your children will somehow get the drift of your beliefs on their own.
-Jeffrey R. Holland

"We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith."
-Neil L. Andersen

"Certainly there are times when getting the family together to read the scriptures does not stack up as a spiritual experience worthy of a journal entry. But we must not be deterred. There are special times when the spirit of a son or daughter is just right and the power of these great scriptures goes down into their heart like fire. As we honor our Heavenly Father in our homes, He will honor our efforts."
-Neil L. Andersen

President Hinckley admonished both men and women to be nurturers. He said, ‘How much more beautiful would be the society in which we live if every father . . . and . . . mother regarded [their] children . . . as gifts from the God of heaven . . . and brought them up with true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.’ ”
-Susan W. Tanner

"Children are like trees. When they are young, their lives can be shaped and directed, usually with ever so little effort. Said the writer of Proverbs, 'Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it' (22:6). That training finds its roots in the home. There will be little of help from other sources. Do not depend on government to help in this darkening situation. Barbara Bush, wife of former U.S. president George Bush, spoke wisely: 'Your success as a family, our success as society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but on what happens inside your house.' "
-Gordon B. Hinckley

“I give counsel to husbands and wives. Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion’s joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion.”
-Henry B. Eyring

“Reverent behavior is not a natural tendency for most children. It is a quality that is taught by parents and leaders through example and training. But remember, if reverence is rooted in love, so is the teaching of it. Harshness in our training begets resentment, not reverence.”
-Margaret S. Lifferth

"There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else."
- M. Russell Ballard

“As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’?”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Security for our families comes from learning self-control, avoiding the excesses of this world, and being temperate in all things.”
-Kent D. Watson