We call it Family Council in Mormonland. The rest of you probaby call it a Family Meeting. Either way it’s important for families to have them. Like really important. In my mind, Family Meetings are right up there with Family Scripture Study and Family Prayer. In fact, I consider Family Council to be one of the weapons we have to use in the war to save families.

Last year I did a 14 Days of Valentines Countdown for my hubby. And I plan to pull out the countdown again this year except I’m going to tweak it a bit. (How’s that for recycling, repurposing, and reusing!) I am going to do 14 Days of LOVE Scriptures instead. I guess you could say, I want to bring a little Saint into Saint Valentine’s Day.

I’ve had a few requests to post my UP Teacher Appreciation Week from last year and I am finally getting to it. After typing all this UP, no wonder the PTA President wanted me to do Teacher Appreciation Week again this year; no wonder I had self-diagnosed adrenal fatigue for the rest of the summer; and no wonder I decided to homeschool 🙂

The moment you have all been waiting for….(you probably didn’t even notice I hadn’t told you yet)… My word for 2014… (20 days into January)… Drum roll please….

I am mostly confident about my decision to homeschool Elle. Except for when I am not. As I walked through the halls of my kids’ elementary school during Parent Teacher Conferences, I peeked into what would have been my daughter’s 6th grade classroom. A twinge of self-doubt shot through my veins.

I realized if I said NO to this public speaking opportunity just out of laziness, then who am I to dream about public speaking? That’s like wanting to marry Ryan Gosling and then saying no when he asks you out on a date.