Food is my addiction

Christmas is here and I need to take a break from talking about raising kids for a few weeks.     Imagine I am holding a box.  Inside this box is the most precious gift you could or ever will receive.  Everyone imagine you are opening this box and you look inside. Not one person will see the same thing. It will be different for each and everyone of you. This gift is more precious then gold. A gift from Heavenly Father just for you.  As you look inside the box you see your reflection.  You see the one thing that no one else would ever see.  This is the most precious gift given to you from a loving Heavenly Father.  This gift is you.  Afterglow sings a song about an old violin that was being auctioned off.  No one would pay $1, or even $2 for this old violin.  In the back of the room appeared an older man.  He came forward and picked up the old violin.  He began to play a beautiful tune.  After he had finished play...

  When each of your children are born, you look at them and have all these wonderful images of what their life will be like.  For young men, in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints culture that dream for your baby boy is to serve a mission.  And now with the age for young women being only a year older than the young men, I would think that we see our girls going on missions also.  When I was growing up young men were encouraged to go on missions and young women could serve a mission if they were not married and reached the age of 21.  For all three of my boys I had a dream of them going on a mission.  I could see all of them going on a mission.  It almost seemed that if they did not go on a mission, I did not do my job as a mother.  For some reason, we in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints feel that if our child does not serve a mission, we did not do our job as parents.  I'm here to tell you that is not true.  Ju...

  One thing I've learned in my life is raising children is not an easy task.  Someone once told me that we as parents have until a child is 5 years old to teach them everything they need to learn. Once they turn 5, well they just strengthen what they have learned from there.  I'm not sure I believe that because we are learning new things all the time.  I did enjoy the poem written by Robert Fulghum All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten.  It talks about not hitting people, sharing, being fair, say your sorry, wash your hands, and a few other things.  But really sharing, being fair, and saying your sorry are some of the most important things you can do.  When you hurt someone be sorry about it and say something.  Wash your hands, we have heard that more in the last 2 years that it is making me crazy.  Being fair to everyone is really important to me.  I've thought a lot about that and right now I'm  going to get in a pol...

Happy Thanksgiving, It has taken me a few weeks to get this topic put together.  I will not lie, I am struggling with wanting to share this topic with you because raising kids is very hard sometimes and raising kids does not always turn out the way we want.  In the next few weeks I'm going to talk to you about raising kids.  I'm not a perfect mom, but I have learned some things over the years that I want to share with you, in hopes that it will help you in your journey. In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints we have a Sunday once a year where our young children sing and say a little part to tell the adults what they have learned in primary for the year.  Today was our primary program.  It is my favorite Sacrament meeting of the year because the children are so genuine and their testimonies of our Savior Jesus Christ are unique and special.  It always reminds me of the scripture when Jesus tells us to be like little children.  Their testimon...