• My husband and I lived in an apartment for 7 years before we bought our first home.  There were several reasons for waiting, but the most important one was timing. At first, it was just the two of us, but when our first child was born, we realized that there was not much room for […]

  • This week, our readings finally brought us into the New Testament.  It was such a dramatic contrast to go from reading the gloom and doom of the last few books of the old testament to these first few chapters bursting with hope and joy in our Savior’s birth. As we read Mary’s story, the angel […]

  • When I was in high school, I had taken a Ceramics and Sculpture class.  One of our projects was making a clay sculpture.  After much deliberation, I finally decided to make a vase. The process my teacher taught us to use was the slab method which was tedious for this teenager: knead the clay, roll […]