It wasn’t hard to figure out Crew’s primary love language. He is always writing me notes and asking me for approval so I surmised that his love language was Words of Affirmation.

After my parenting epiphany with Elle I sat her down and asked her a few questions so I could find out what her primary love language was (this was before I read the book mind you). I wanted to know how to say “I love you” in a way she understood. Our conversation went something like this:

I had a parenting epiphany this same time last year. It was a Sunday morning and I was curling Elle’s hair. We were also working on memorizing the Articles of Faith. She was using window markers and writing on the mirror and I was explaining meaning and phrases as I curled.

Lately, I have been on an after-school snack kick. When the kids get home from school, they wash their hands, come to the bar and I serve the same snack to everyone at the same time. But this post isn’t as much about what I serve for after-school snack, but rather why I serve after-school snack.

Chad was out of town for a couple of weekends in January and I couldn’t face rounding up the 4 kids by myself to go do a big service project. Plus I felt like my house was its own service project. So we opted for a different kind of Service Saturday in January.

I am really enjoying my new neighborhood and ward. And perhaps my favorite thing so far is the babysitting co-op they have in place. This idea is genius. And it is thrifty. Here is how our babysitting co-op works: