Thornton Mom

  Maddie started complaining of her tummy hurting about an hour before church.  I assumed it was because I turned off the TV and she had to give a talk in primary.  She seemed okay during sacrament meeting and even got to sit on daddy's lap.  She did a great job on her talk about the Holy Ghost.  A few minutes later her teacher told me that she was complaining about her tummy.  I went in to check on her and just as I put her on my lap she threw up.  Immediatly I was surrounded and taken care of by my ward memebers.  We took Maddie to the bathroom cleaned her and me up as best we could.  When I returned to the primary room to get my things the mess was completely cleaned up.  As I went to grab my other children someone volunteered to take them home for me.  It was so kind of everyone.  I felt so loved and blessed to be in such a great ward.  (Maddie has not had a problem since.) Book of M...

Elizabeth liked these white flowers we saw. I have to be careful of what I watch.  My mind will play scenes over and over during the day but especially as I try to fall asleep.  If I have watched a disturbing show before I fall asleep I usually end up with nightmares and little rest. I remember a few years ago watching something that I wish I hadn't before going to bed.  I remember praying before I fell asleep that those images would not haunt me that night.  I opened the scriptures and read these words from the prophet Mormon to his son Moron: Book of Mormon, Moroni 9:25 "25 My son, be faithful in Christ; and may not the things which I have written grieve thee, to weigh thee down unto death; but may Christ lift thee up, and may his sufferings and death, and the showing his body unto our fathers, and his mercy and long-suffering, and the hope of his glory and of eternal life, rest in...