mish mash mom

This month's Visiting Teaching message centers around the Purpose of the Relief Society.  The Relief Society was organized to help women lift and support each other both temporally and spiritually.
I love that instinctively, the women of the church in Nauvoo gathered together to try to do good.  It's even better, and more inspired that at that point, the Prophet Joseph Smith realized that something had been missing from the Church organization...

I loved how the message this month focused on the joy of families, and how family happiness is can be found and elevated by living the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Elder Richard G. Scott said that a Christ-centered home "provides the greatest assurance for peace and refuge in our homes."...

You know those recipe videos on Facebook?
The ones that are mesmerizing and flash through all ingredients and steps to a recipe in about 30 seconds?
Well, I saw one the other day from Pillsbury that I decided I needed to try and it was super easy.

Aside from a few Visiting Teaching posts here and there, it has been quite a while since I've blogged. Life got in the way.
So I thought I would take a minute and catch up.  We won't go back too far, but just in this year alone we have taken a few trips, had a few surgeries, our oldest son graduated from high school and left to serve an LDS mission to Spain, and we relocated...