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  • Skyfort Playset Installation – Day 2 (3/31)

    Thursday March 31st – also known as Day 2. Normally our Thursdays are pretty busy with piano lessons and Cub Scouts, but for various reasons, both of those were canceled, leaving me with a full evening to work on my Build and Grow! First order of business was emptying out the other two boxes and…

  • 2010 Miami Triathlon Report

    It is once again that time of year – time for another triathlon report from TPMHTDM! I know my faithful readers have been waiting for a full report, and while I will attempt to blame external forces, the delay in the writeup for this race is mostly due to laziness. As always, you may also…

  • Day of Good Deeds!

    Okay so I know it’s been awhile for TPMHTDM. Like Carolyn has said – facebook is killing my blog. (Softly. With its song) But Saturday was my “Day of Good Deeds!” As you will see if you read on, it proved to be a good deeds day of mixed success. The day started out like…

  • More Diligent and Concerned at Home

    Continuing my general conference series, this week I was reading David A Bednar’s talk, More Diligent and Concerned at Home. Here are a few quotes and thoughts We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be…

  • Conference talk – To Acquire Spiritual Guidance

    So, I’m back in the saddle of reading conference talks. Today was my first one reading the new conference that just happened earlier this month. But since I missed Priesthood session, I have the whole list to do, which is 34 talks, so I will have to double up to get them done by April.…

  • An interesting perspective on parenting

    So, I had an interesting thought on a different perspective on parenting while sitting in Priesthood class last week at church. Within the past few weeks, Carolyn and I were talking about our kids (of course). And Carolyn was mentioning how you can’t treat kids as “little adults”. Meaning, that you think that you can…

  • Conference talk – The way of the disciple

    So continuing on my series of General Conference talks – this week it was by Dieter F. Uchtdorf, called “The way of the Disciple“. A few quotes. It is not enough merely to speak of Jesus Christ or proclaim that we are His disciples. It is not enough to surround ourselves with symbols of our…

  • Increases in children of record

    So, in my continuing series on General Conference talks, this week I decided to combine the Sustaining of Church Officers, the Auditing report, and the Statistical report. I always find the statistical reports interesting (of course I do!) One thing that was interesting to me was the difference this year in the increase of children…

  • Conference talk – Respect and Reverence

    This week’s talk is called “Respect and Reverence“, by Margaret Lifferth, who is in the Primary General Presidency. Just as a note, I don’t put a blog post each week when I read talks (though maybe I should!) But sometimes I don’t feel like anything jumped out at me. It’s not like the talk was…

  • Conference talk – living providently

    So it’s conference talk time yet again! I find it interesting that, if you don’t count the auditing and statistical reports, and not counting the Sat. evening Priesthood session which I attended in person (well “in person”), there are exactly 26 talks! Just enough to read one every week till next conference. This week’s talk…