Thornton Mom

Samantha is a sweetheart.  She tires so hard to be so helpful.  When she sees someone is sad she will go try to remedy their problem.  This is especially true with Maddison and Michael.  She wants to make them happy.  The Infinite Atonement (Illustrated Edition) by Tad R. Callistar pg. 139--"The Savior would nobly endure the cross, all that man could endure, and much, much more.  Yet amidst it all, there was no revenge, no bitterness, no venom in his soul.  Elder Maxwell observed, "Jesus partook of history's bitterest cup without becoming bitter!" Eliza R. Snow put it poetically: Although in agony he hung, No murm'ring word escaped his tongue. What a good point.  Christ did not complain.  I need to do better about not complaining.  To see the blessings that I do have and to see how much I am loved.  What a great example. pg. 141--Elder McConkie felt similarly: "Again, on Calvary, during the last three hours of his mort...

Derek was sitting in the recliner and I was laying on the couch.  We had just finished watching TV.  Derek has been overwhelmed with work and Church which of course causes me to worry about him.  I turned to him and tenderly asked, "Hey sweet heart what is on your mind?"  He replied, "I have a problem," expecting some sort of profound and burdened explanation I braced myself for his next words, "There is a plunger on the armoire and I just don't think it goes with the decor."  Sure enough I looked up and sitting on top the armoire was the bathroom plunger. Putting pieces together came up with a probable scenario.  I had asked Elizabeth to watch Michael while she watched a show on the computer and I took a nap.  Knowing Michael and his newly found fascination with the bathroom I bet he toddled over and found a new toy in a plunger and brought it to his sister to share.  Being the good girl she is she took the plunger from him and put it where...