Thornton Mom

Yesterday I had the privledge of giving a talk in my church meeting.  I spoke about what I have seen my husband do as bishop and how this ward has blessed my family.  I truly had felt the Spirit guide me in what I would say.  As I spoke I again felt the Spirit with me.  I was amazed at how my heart was touched, I cried through almost the whole thing.  I testified that my husband has the mantel of the Bishop and when he speaks as the Bishop his countanence changes and he no longer speaks as a man but as a servant of the Lord. Later I had to give a lesson in Relief Society.  As I did last time I prayed for the sisters of my ward individually, by name.  I was amazed that a sister I had prayed would be at church was there.  This is the second time I had prayed for my fellow sisters and she has come both times.  Vancouver, Canada 2013 My lesson was on Following the Living Prophet .  It was a simple lessons and I quickly was running o...

One of my favorite books is King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood & Don Wood.  I have loved it ever since my mother introduced it to us years ago.  Naturally I introduced it into my own home and it has become a family favorite. Sunday morning we were getting ready for church and Maddison was in the bathtub.  I told her it was time to get out but she said, "I think I will stay in here all day." I replied, "Help, Help called the Mom when the sun shone bright Maddie's in the bathtub and she won't get out.  Oh, who knows what to do?" Maddie laughed and replied, "I do cried the bishop when the sun shown bright, get out it's time to go to Church." Maddie continued, "come in cried Maddie with a Church, Church, Church, today we Church in the tub." At this we broke out laughing.  Maddie kept going, "Help, Helped cried the Mommy when the sun sank low.  Maddie's in the bathtub and she won't ge...

I have two beautiful daughters.  They are smart and sweet and a joy to our family.  I don't know what I would do without them. Recently I took them both in for a physical.  I was aware that they are large for their age and knew that they were "out of shape or husky."  But I found out that one had gained 30 lbs. in the last year.  I was in shock.  How could I have let this happen? Blood work was requested for both of them.  After many tears and a lot of prayers the blood work was submitted.  Today I received a call that the other daughter has high cholesterol and extremely high triglycerides.  Again, how could I have let this happen? After the initial shock and the wondering, "what do we do now?" I was given peace from my Father in Heaven.  I was reminded that I have continually tried to help my family be healthy.  That we are human and don't always eat or exercise as much as we should but I have never given up.  I was rem...

I have been worried a while now about John Derek and his ability or lack of ability to read.  The last few weeks I feel that the Lord has really guided me to know what I should do for him.  I ended up talking to my neighbor a while ago about her son and the frustrations she has gone through with our school system.  How she felt that they didn't help him until he was failing and now he is far behind his peers and that is is affecting him emotinally as well. I did not want this for my son so I sent an email to his teacher telling her his history and the learning concernses we have had.  She wrote back and had set up a meeting with some other people at school to discuss him and discuss the best action we could take. Derek and I attended that meeting yesterday.  I was amazed at how strongly I felt the Spirit guiding me to know what to say and when to say it.  They said that he is so close to being at grade level that maybe he just needs a little more pr...

Maddie was playing princesses with her castle and figurines when Elizabeth decided to join her.  They had a talent show and sang Disney songs.  It was so fun.  I love to see Elizabeth play with her siblings.  I love to see her play with toys because I know it won't be long before she will feel too grown up for that.  But I hope she never looses that childlike imagination.  It will help her in her life if she keeps that tucked away in her heart to be pulled out when when she is a mom and her daughter wants to play princesses.  I think I wanted to grow up so fast that I pushed that away and now it is hard to find it again. Today was a lonely Sunday.  Derek was gone for about 12 hours.  I am up late just trying to grasp what is on my mind and why I am still awake.  I was thumbing through the Ensign and came across this poem.  This helped me remember why I am willing to give my husband to the Lord, to be a bishop's wife and to know...