Thornton Mom

Elizabeth's 4th Grade teacher moved away to be closer to family.  My cleaning lady and here are best friends so I regularly get updates.  Recently Elizabeth's teacher, Mrs. *******, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.  Since we couldn't make dinner for her we sent her some money to buy take out during her treatments.  She sent us a thank you card and asked Elizabeth to email her what has been going on in her life.  Within minutes Elizabeth was at the computer typing an email to her.  I enjoyed reading it and finding out what was important for my daughter to tell her great teacher.  Elizabeth is a wonderful young woman and I am so proud of her. Hey Mrs.******* its your very tall student who loves you very much! I got really worried and sad when i heard you got cancer. I'm really sorry hope you liked the $40. You asked about my updates well i'm at Durant Middle in 8th grade i'm a straight A student. i was on the volleyball team for 3 years (a man...

This past week for our marble jar activity we had a Minion party.  I knew that one way to spent time with my children would be to make food into Minions.  And so we created Minions out of bananas or twinkies.  It was a lot of fun.  We used yellow and blue melting chips and black frosting for the details.  The kids favorite part were the edible eyes.  Michael came over as I was finishing the first Minion and sat on my lap.  Once I got the eyes and the mouth on he screamed in delight, "Minion!!"  Then every 2 min. he was asking if he could eat a Minion.  He just did not want to wait until the party.  We did Pin the Goggles on the Minion and Minion Bingo.  It was so fun to see everyone so happy. The Power, Joy, and Love of Covenant Keeping ...

Hubbies are awesome.  I have been trying for the past week to get my phone pictures to show up on my blog account but with no success.  I presented the problem to Derek and withing 3 min. he had it fixed.  He is wonderful and so smart. Samantha and her friend took all of her rainbow loom bands and connected them together to form one long rope.  It was so long that they took it outside and had the boys jump over it.It was fun to see them all playing together.  We have great neighbors and friends.  The neighbor kids usually come over to our house after school.  They play outside most of the afternoon and then sometimes end up inside on a rainy day.  We enjoy it. Celebrating Covenants , Bonnie D. Parkin, "Celebrating Covenants", Ensign, May 1995, 78 "Father in Heaven knows us as individuals. The covenants we make with Him are performed...

Maddie had her Christmas Program at preschool.  As we got ready for the program she put on a red velvet dress and we did her hair in pigtails.  She then told me she had to put on her cute eyes so she fluttured her eyelashes and then looked up at me.  She is adorable and loves to use that to her advantage.  She is the beautiful one on the top row far right. After the Program Grandmommy took us out for lunch.  She went into the play area while we waited for our food.  When we all sat down to eat she told us that there was a boy in the play area who told her that she was beautiful.  He made quite an impression upon her.  Boys always have a great influence upon us women even when we are only 4. We Are a Covenant-making People , Elder Joseph Anderson , of the First Quorum of the Seventy "However, Israel of old failed to keep the covenants, and as a result the Lord was displeased with them and calamities befell ...

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...

I found the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on Netfix and bribed Maddie and John Derek with it.  They quickly got ready for bed and sat down to watch the movie.  John Derek was excited by all the car races and Maddie loves the singing.  It is a long movie so we have watched it 2 different nights and still haven't finished it.  It is fun to sing the songs with them.  We gone around the house singing "Oh you pretty chitty bang bang, chitty chitty bang bang we love you."  Then John Derek jumps up and "explodes" with his arms and legs and yells "bang bang." Aren't they so cute together?  When I left the room they were in different chairs.  When I returned they looked like this. I have decided to study Covenants .  On lds.org they have a Gospel Topics study section.  I love being able to choose a topic I am interested in and learn more about it.   Mosiah 5:7-9 7 And now, because of the covenant which ye have made ye shal...

As I was typing upstairs I kept hearing a loud banging sound coming from downstairs.  As I came down to investigate this is what I found: Oh what fun he was having.  I think if he wouldn't have heard the camera click he would have climbed in the cabinet.  He is truly a 1 year old. Today I continued the talk by Linda K. Burton, Relief Society General President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ( click here to read/listen to this talk) Elder Holland movingly suggested, “I am not certain just what our experience will be on Judgment Day, but I will be very surprised if at some point in that conversation, God does not ask us exactly what Christ asked Peter: ‘Did you love me?’” 24 Tonight I invite each of us to evaluate how much we love the Savior, using as a measure how joyfully we keep our covenants. The Savior said, “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I w...