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The Booty Call: Adventures in Potty Training

Before Jesse could even walk, he had a little walker that he would zoom around the house in and get into absolutely everything. He loved banging into my legs, and I had a visceral reaction every time I heard that squeaky thing coming because I knew it was about to slam into the soft part right above my heel. I developed an automatic reflex to stick my foot out and block him. To this day, I can stop a walker with my foot while stirring a pot of soup on the stove. It’s pure muscle memory. If I ever accidentally left the bathroom door open, Jesse would charge in with that walker, pull an entire roll of toilet paper off the holder, rip it up, stuff it into the toilet, and throw the rest everywhere else. Jesse at work in the bathroom Despite this early interest in the potty, I had absolutely no interest in potty training. I had a little mom’s group, and every single one of them had potty trained their kids before I potty trained Jesse—even the ones with kids younger than him. They were conv...
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Fear God? Learn ASL Weekly Scripture for Families

 Our scripture this week: Revelation 14:7 Fear God, and give glory to him; and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea. ASL Word Hints: Fear God, glorify Him; worship Him, himself finish make heaven, earth, sea. That word "fear" comes up yet again! The Blue letter bible helped me decide how we wanted to translate that one which helps you dissect the original words in the bible.  Get the  weekly printout :

I Stand At the Door and Knock

Learn the scripture: Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him. ASL Word Hints: Remind-all, I stand here door, I knock. If any you-all focus my message, you-all go-ahead open, I will enter meet. Click here for printout!

Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear! ASL Scriptures - Come Follow Me Nov 26 - John 4:18

 I love, love our scripture this week. This is a short one, I know you guys can do this! John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.  ASL Word Hints: Inside(heart) love fear blow-on-hand. Understand, perfect love cast-out fear. Click here for printout!

Our Weekly ASL Come, Follow Me Scripture - 1 Peter 3:12 - Nov 20-26

Have fun learning our scripture of the week with special guest star - my mom! 1 Peter 3:12: The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers ASL Word Hints: Lord himself look-upon righteous group, He hear hear their prayers Get the  printout here !

Learn Our Weekly ASL Come, Follow Me Scripture - James 1:5 - Nov 13-19

Our family has a little morning devotional every day and we recently started printing off a scripture from Come, Follow Me with ASL word hints to help the kids memorize the English and ASL version.  I think this is a tradition that will stick and we decided to share this week's scripture with you all! How to sign James 1:5: Click here to download and print the poster: Our kitchen wall, featuring last week's scripture. Pro tip - when you introduce the scripture have your kids find pictures or friend articles that relate to put on your wall with it and give you more study material about the scripture throughout the week! Bonus: Click here for last week's scripture video tutorial!

The Birth Story of an Angel

It’s been exactly a year since my sweet Mason arrived and I want to (finally) share his birth story. Mason has taken away nothing good from my life and given me everything. The entire time he has been in my life - I mean my whole pregnancy, his birth and the whole year he has been with us - he has brought so much joy and peace. We all really adore this boy and can't imagine a life without him So here it is, the story of the best day of my life!! BIRTH STORY! (Mostly written 10/23/20) My sweet baby boy is here!!  All my studying, pondering and prayer about birth paid off - I could not imagine having a better birth for my situation. Heavenly Father was really looking out for both of us. Jesse’s c-section was traumatic in some ways. With Alora I just really didn’t want another c-section. I would have liked a natural birth but I didn’t really prepare myself for a natural birth because I didn’t want to be too upset if I ended up having a c-section. I was able to have her naturally with ...