by Laurie W | Jan 15, 2008 | Home and Family
One of the hardest questions for me to answer is, “How many kids do you have?” When we’re all piled on a bench together you’ll see my husband and me with four pretty cute kids. But someone’s always missing. Early on in the year 2000 I gave birth to our second child –...
by Laurie W | Jan 14, 2008 | Home and Family
I stood outside the school doors one day, waiting for my oldest to get out of school. My boys were playing on the nearby playground, and the baby lay tucked tight in her stroller. It usually took a few minutes after the bell would ring for my oldest to find her way to...
by Laurie W | Jan 12, 2008 | Home and Family
A sweet woman my husband works with has twin girls just a year older than my own daughter. Every six months or so she goes through her girls’ closet and locates all the clothes that are too small and lovingly hands them over to us. These gifts of clothes come as quite...
by Laurie W | Jan 10, 2008 | Home and Family
When a young man of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon Church as it is sometimes called, turns fourteen years of age and is found worthy he will be ordained to the office of a ‘Teacher.’ This is the second office in the Aaronic...
by Laurie W | Jan 10, 2008 | Home and Family
The highest calling in the Aaronic Priesthood is that of a priest. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon Church as it is more commonly known, young men at the age of sixteen (up through seventeen, or until ordained to the Melchizedek...
