Tree of Life Mothering

So we went to Idaho for a Hilton Family Reunion. Part of the family reunion was a temple session on Friday afternoon at the Rexburg Temple. I must say, the Hiltons have really expanded my vision of what a family reunion can be. Growing up, for me, a family reunion was an afternoon in the park with kids playing on the playground and adults talking over potluck food. Or an afternoon in Mona, Utah, at my dad’s cousin’s home with a waterslide in the backyard and potluck. The Hiltons (my mother-in-law’s family) love to make it a multi-day affair. It many times includes a temple session. We have had the reunion at many places other than a park: Temple Square, American Heritage school (shhh, they usually don’t rent it out), BYU’s Wilkinson Center, and many LDS chapels. We’ve had the reunion in Oakland, Boise, Provo, Virgin, (in case you didn’t know, that’s in Utah), Lehi, American Fork, and the Homestead resort in Midway, Utah. They like to tell ancestor stories, talk about what family history research needs to be done, have business meetings, catered food, and talent shows. They also provide babysitting for the younger ones.

On Friday my husband and I celebrated 21 years of marriage. It happened to be on the first day of the Hilton Reunion. What a great way to celebrate by doing a temple session with so many of his cousins and his mom and one aunt. The Rexburg temple is beautiful, as all temples are!

I got to visit with Jean, who is married to one of my dh’s 45 first cousins, right after our temple session. We have a special connection because she is a homeschooler as well who has participated with a commonwealth school in northern California. She said that at in their homeschooling/TJED circle, some families started a charter school based on TJED ideas. This year the chartered school is requiring that the seniors take three AP classes. What?! Whatever happened to freedom? I believe in academic excellence, but not forcing it. We know whose plan forcing excellence is. Jean said her daughter won’t be going, because she wants to have “important dates with herself.” I asked Jean about that. She said it’s from John Taylor Gatto’s writings, she thinks maybe Dumbing Us Down. The idea is that if we are so programmed with activities others are asking us to do, we don’t have time to connect with ourselves and our creativity.

I found a new appreciation for Idaho’s beauty. I loved all the small towns and farmlands. We stayed in a small town that had only five roads, and camped in my dh’s cousin’s backyard.

Dh’s cousin had this charming bike just beckoning me to take a ride. What torture to walk by it so much and not ride. So now I want a bike like this!

We met at this lovely chapel on Saturday morning to put on the obligatory reunion T-shirts and then take family pictures of the huge family and then the individual families. That’s one thing about the Hiltons, at every reunion they have to have matching T-shirts. I decided long ago that T-shirts are not that flattering on me, or really, on any woman, so I gave them all away long ago and I told my husband not to get me one. But it was fun seeing all the cousins in their matching shirts. My daughter was a rebel for the day with me and wore the BYU-Idaho shirt she got the day before.

I always like looking at the memorabilia table. Dh’s grandfather, Eugene Hilton, had a PhD in education. He liked to write history textbooks, so the table featured one of his books. Here is a picture and here’s a link to an online version.

I haven’t read it yet so I can’t vouch for its contents. I know Opa Gene was a fan of FDR so that makes me wonder about this book, if it has Progressive leanings.

My younger kids liked the food the best! They don’t get to eat hoagies and chips at home!

My favorite part was visiting with dh’s cousins individually and watching the talent show. My kids did a darling skit with their second cousins about how Uncle George and Aunt Yvonne met and courted.

I also loved seeing how the younger children have changed over the years. Dh’s cousin’s wife Julie and her daughter Holly look like twins now that the daughter is just as tall as her mom. Jean told me that my daughter looks just like me. People tell me that a lot but I don’t see it. My dh and I attended Julie’s wedding to cousin Wes in the Salt Lake Temple 18 years ago so it’s very precious to see how their family has grown to five healthy children.

I think my absolute favorite thing though was seeing this quote in a display case at the chapel. I agree with Elder Perry, and that the right involves the family way. Somehow I want to combine it with the words displayed in cousin Karen’s home above her stove where we camped for the night (I forgot to get a picture):

May this house be blessed with food, fun, love and laughter, now and forever after!

We had a huge family reunion in Idaho this past week, so dh decided to take advantage of the situation and scheduled a tour of BYU-Idaho before the reunion, at 11 AM on Friday. It’s part of inspiring our children to reach for higher education. He has fond memories of his parents taking him and his siblings to tour BYU Provo when he was young.This makes me pause and wonder about the whole idea of vision. Often times, we do things because we see other people do them. It’s been my experience that most children who go to college go because they have seen that their parents have gone. In this case, my husband saw his parents take him to a college campus to inspire him so now he is repeating the vision. In so many things in life we do things or see that things are possible only because someone gives the vision to us.

We left at 7:17 Friday morning, thinking we would easily make it from our home northern Utah. But when we hit Perry, he realized he had left the checkbook for the reunion funds at home (he is the treasurer). So we had to go back and get it, even though I suggested he just mail the checks to people after we got home. By the time we left for the second time, it was 8:30. Layton to Rexburg in 2 hours and 40 minutes. Wow, I didn’t realize we lived that close to Rexburg. Can anyone say, “speedster”? We got there at ten after 11 AM and had to catch the next tour at noon. Dh was really bummed. I am grateful we didn’t get a ticket.

I am impressed with the campus. It looks like BYU, just newer (it seemed like all of the buildings had been remodeled) and smaller. Some of the buildings had the same bricks that BYU has. There must be some brick factory that makes bricks that only BYU Provo and Idaho are allowed to use. I have never seen them anywhere else. You know, those tan golden bricks of the Wilkinson Center and the many other buildings there?

BYU Idaho has a new auditorium called the BYU Idaho Center that looks like a mini-Conference Center. It seats 21,000 people. Wow! I didn’t even know there are that many people in Rexburg.

I absolutely loved the Thomas Ricks Horticultural Gardens in the center of campus. They are gorgeous! That’s something BYU Provo doesn’t have. I loved that the gardens had some pretty wrought iron picnic tables and chairs, and a little cabin front that with swings that invited people to sit and just be happy in the moment. We had a picnic in the gardens and it felt good to relax after speeding our way there.

It looks like Hawaii, but this is in the center of Idaho, at BYU-Idaho. Who would have thought Idaho could look so beautiful?

I am really excited about BYU Idaho. I like that the college has a learning model based on the principle in the scriptures that we are all learners and teachers, and that the teacher is no better than the learner. Dare I say that the whole place has a humbler feel than at BYU Provo? I graduated from BYU Provo. I like the place, but it is so huge that sometimes I’ve wondered if I would have had a better experience at a smaller university. I was always afraid to say anything in class.

Here’s what the BYU Idaho web site says about the model: (from http://www.byui.edu/about/defining-aspects/learning-model)

It’s one of the classic images of higher education: a lecture hall full of students listening passively while a professor discourses on the subject at hand. This kind of disconnected, one-way interaction is not what you’ll find in a BYU-Idaho classroom. At this university, learning is defined by active engagement. Students are urged to take charge of their education and be fully involved in their own learning.

This approach, called the Learning Model, is based on three key steps: Prepare, Teach One Another, and Ponder and Prove. Students come to each class prepared to learn by studying assigned readings, completing required homework, and participating in online discussions and pre-class study groups. Through instructor-led discussions in class, students teach each other what they’ve learned–honing and refining their own understanding in the process. Later, students internalize their learning through review, reflection, and application. 

You can watch the learning model here http://www2.byui.edu/LearningModel/src/default.htm

I hope any or all of my kids go there. I could feel the Spirit at this peaceful place.  I really enjoyed this talk given at BYU-Idaho a few years ago by Clayton Christensen, an LDS Harvard professor. President Monson mentioned Brother Christensen in General Conference a time ago, about how he was on a college basketball team and chose not to play on Sunday. In his address to BYU Idaho, Brother Christensen tells of why religion is important to the foundation of any free society. Watch it here. It is very profound!

I love all the Carl Bloch paintings of the Savior in the BYU-Idaho Center.

The LDS homeschool conference I attended last Saturday was so helpful and inspiring! I am a veteran homeschooler, but I still learned a lot from this event and got some great reminders to do things I have dropped.

I loved hearing Jenet Erikson share about growing up in the homeschooling home of one of my heroes, LaDawn Jacob. Jenet inspired me to focus more on creating and capitalizing on everyday, enjoyable routines and rituals for family learning and bonding.

I will have to do a recap of each presenter I heard, they were each so good! It was fun to be there with my youth and eat lunch with them and hear them talk about the greatness of To Kill a Mockingbird.

I wanted to let you all know that the organizers are doing a postconference teleconference this week with some of the presenters, and even people who didn’t present who have valuable information for homeschoolers. Every day at 1 PM MT, you can hear a different person share tips and helps for homeschooling.

For example, Nicholeen Peck is being interviewed today at 1 PM MT over the phone. Go HERE to get all the details.

This is an important video to watch if you care about freedom and the quality of the food you eat. It especially rings true to me as both my grandfathers were small farmers. I am copying the description from YouTube:

Americans’ right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent ac-tion, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, and seeks to figure out why.

Filmmaker Kristin Canty’s quest to find healthy food for her four children turned into an educational journey to discover why access to these foods was being threatened. What she found were policies that favor agribusiness and factory farms over small family-operated farms selling fresh foods to their communities. Instead of focusing on the source of food safety problems — most often the industrial food chain — policymakers and regulators implement and enforce solutions that target and often drive out of business small farms that have proven themselves more than capable of producing safe, healthy food, but buckle under the crushing weight of government regulations and excessive enforcement actions.

Farmageddon highlights the urgency of food freedom, encouraging farmers and consumers alike to take action to preserve individuals’ rights to access food of their choice and farmers’ rights to produce these foods safely and free from unreasona-bly burdensome regulations. The film serves to put policymakers and regulators on notice that there is a growing movement of people aware that their freedom to choose the foods they want is in danger, a movement that is taking action with its dollars and its voting power to protect and preserve the dwindling number of family farms that are struggling to survive.

I watched the Nancy Drew movie from 2007 at my little sister’s urging during my vacation to Park City. Maybe most of you have already watched it, I hardly see movies so it was new to me. I watched it with my younger kids after a morning of swimming. We did this while the big kids went with their cousins, dad, aunts, uncle, and grandpa and grandma to the temple for a youth baptism session. Younger sis raved about how cute Nancy’s vintage clothes were. I liked them but they weren’t as cute as I was expecting, more type 3 or 4, according to Carol Tuttle’s system, not my type 1 and 2. I am still deciding if the movie is just brain candy or bent. I don’t think I would call it a classic. It portrayed as OK for a young woman to lie to her dad about breaking a promise she had made. Supposedly it was for a higher benefit of helping others but I am not convinced that that was the right thing. I do like the message it sends about how cool it is for a young woman to be excellent at sports, academics, homemaking, and sleuthing. I never knew Nancy Drew was a budding Martha Stewart type. I thought she just liked mysteries. I love the song from the movie, “You’re Pretty Much Amazing.” I think I will play it in the mornings to help get my kids going.

This is my daughter and her cousin who is the same age. They don’t always look like so alike, but in this photo with the way they are holding their heads and looking and with their hair pulled back, they  look like twins.

Whew! We got back from our family vacation on Saturday. I think I have finally recovered, LOL! We spent a week in Park City thanks to the generosity of my parents who host my siblings and me with condos at the Mountain Side Marriott. We get to be together every year for a delightful week as an extended family. Here are some snapshots and nuggets of what I experienced and learned.

I have beautiful daughters and nieces. One of my daughters refused to be in the photo shoot. Apparently I am not stylish enough. I suggested my daughter wear my white top under her sundress and she declined, saying that my shirt had “mom sleeves” that were not up to her fashion standards.

It’s true that it’s best to be in bed by 10:30 PM so you can be asleep by 11. Your adrenals flush your body’s toxins between 11 PM and 1 AM if you are asleep. I had been pretty much in this habit of getting to bed earlier than my formernight owl ways and then it went out the window on my vacation, what with people in my family watching the Olympics on TV and kids wanting to stay up late with their cousins. When I got home from the vacation in the middle of the day, I was more tired than when I had left! It was all I could do to unpack. It must have been all those toxins backed up in my body that didn’t flush out.  I didn’t want to fix dinner or give my little kids a bath. Thank goodness it was Fast Sunday the next day, so most of us fasted dinner and my husband fixed sandwiches for the little ones. I just thought, can we just skip the evening and just go to bed? I felt totally wiped out and not physically capable of much, so I ended up watching Duggar videos on YouTube until I felt sleepy.

Anyway, back to the recap of my vacation…

This must be what heaven feels like. This hall may look boring but behind some of these doors are cousins having the time of their lives bonding with each other.  Each of my sibs and I had a unit equipped with 2-bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen and laundry machines for our own family, with my parents sharing one with my sister. This is the first year the units have all been so close together, three on one side of the hall, and two on the other. It felt like heaven to have my family close by yet not too close. The cousins absolutely loved going back and forth between places, having sleepovers, with some of the older cousins baking cookies at 3 AM! I picture heaven being like this with eternal families having our mansions side by side. We only let my kids have sleepovers with cousins. My 6 and 7 year olds had their first sleepovers with their respective cousins who are their age. Fun!

My 11 year old son is great at fixing bike and stroller tires. He got our jogging stroller ready for the trip by installing a new tube.

My little kids would rather watch wildlife than the Olympics. We had a woodchuck we could see from our window on the mountainside that fascinated them. As my 16 yo daughter said, quoting William DeMille, “Who needs TV when you have a farm?”

Letterboxing can bring you face to face with unexpected historical landmarks. We got some clues at http://letterboxing.org for an Olympic letterbox across from the Olympic ski jumps and ended up at a place that used to be a pony express station.

The kids had more fun throwing rocks into the meandering stream than learning about the pony express.

It was fun to do an Olympic letterbox and then see the U.S. women’s gymnastics team get the gold that night.

The next time I am going on vacation I am telling my homeschooling friends that I am going on vacation and not to call me unless it’s a total emergency. Vacations are supposed to be empty spaces to be filled up with non-everyday things. The root of the word means “empty.” I am feeling slightly hypocritical though because I did bring my laptop and check my email every day and night, and blog, and participate in an online colloquium on John Taylor Gatto’s article, The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher. Hmmm, maybe I should leave both my laptop and my cell phone at home to make it a true vacation, and hen see what surprises fill up the vacuum I have made by leaving my usual activities at home. It also makes me wonder about the origin of vacations. Did they start when conveyor belt living started as a way “to get away from it all”? If you live a joyfully productive, yet restful life that includes Sabbath day observance and rest during winter seasons, do you really need a vacation?

it was so wonderful to take turns cooking dinner with my sisters so we all had lots of nights off.

My little sister can make a yummy batch of Italian chicken and potatoes that smells so good that people clear at the elevator on our floor were asking what smells sooooo good. Rosemary is potent stuff! They were guessing what dish the smell was coming from and said “rice a roni.” I knew it was far more gourmet than that! I told the kids to just follow their nose from the elevator to Aunt Emily’s place for dinner.

You can spend all day at This is the Place State Park and not do or see everything there. The place has so many interesting buildings and activities: blacksmith shop, petting zoo, pony rides, Indian dancing, panning for gold (fake), a real life cabin of a pioneer family that slept one dad, two moms, and 13 kids, a replica of the Brooklyn ship, a one room schoolhouse, a train Walt Disney would be proud of, and MUCH more. We could not do it all in one day!

We had enough people in our group (mom, dad, 7 kids, plus two nephews, that by the time we paid admission, we could buy a year round pass! So we will be back soon without paying any more! Yay! We will come back for homeschool field trips with my younger children during cabin fever time especially.

Lime Ricki swimwear has some utterly adorable, feminine swimsuits, that are modest, even if they don’t meet up with the Duggars modesty standard. We decided to get my teen daughter a new suit, because the elastic on the old suit had dried up and was crunchy, since the suit was so old (we had bought it at a thrift store). Lime Ricki was the closest, cutest, cheapest place to Park City, after my daughter found an online coupon for 40% off. That’s one great reason why I am glad we brought the laptop. So we made the run down the canyon to go swimsuit shopping. The place has so many cute, feminine swimsuits that it made swimsuit shopping fun! Well, at least for her. I don’t think I could find anything that fit me. I did not even attempt it. She picked this one below.  Isn’t it darling? I love the skirts.

Clarks is the place to go for super comfy shoes and sandals that are cute too. These are the ones my sister-in-law bought at the Factory Outlet store in PC. Aren’t they pretty? This is the same sister-in-law who got me into Gymboree clothes. I asked her about a place to get feminine clothes like the Janeville line that no longer is made. She said that http://bodenusa.com has some classic feminine clothing.

My sister is reading the Mood Cure. She says it is all about how nutritional supplements can help you eliminate depression and anxiety. I am wondering if it harmonizes with what Sarah Pope over at http://thehealthyhomeeconomist.com says about healthy fats stabilizing blood sugar and moods.

My dad gave a FHE lesson to the whole extended family about the use of the word “instruments” in terms of being instruments in the hand of God. That phrase appears dozens of times in the Book of Mormon but only once in the Bible. I will have to blog about that later.

 Justin Roberts has CDs for kids that appeal to parents as well. My sister loves them!

I have nieces that are great at sewing. Before the trip, they sewed sundresses for all the girl cousins to wear to church together the first day! My younger daughter rebelled and would not get in the photo, and her younger cousin sure wanted to be out of the photo!

But I snagged a picture of her and her two favorite cousins right after the church meetings we attended at the LDS meetinghouse in Park City.

I have a beautiful, loving family that I am very grateful for. I am so glad and grateful that my parents provide this for us every year, thanks to their inheritance money from their parents. It makes me wonder what I am going to leave for my grandchildren, material and spiritual wise. What legacy am I building to leave them? I hope it can be opportunities like this for family bonding.

It’s good to be home now and back to a routine, and I look forward to next year!

Ever since I read the book by Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, The Duggars: 20 and Counting! at the invitation of my friend Becky Edwards, I have fallen in love with the Duggars, the family in Arkansas that has 19 children.

They are incredible! If you haven’t heard about them, they are a family with 19 biological children who seem too good to be true. All the kids play the violin, homeschool, and the family lives in a 7000 square foot house that they built themselves. They also have no debt.

This video below is a great introduction to the family and why they have so many children. I love hearing Michelle say that they asked God to give them a love for children like He has. I love that it mentions that they homeschool and are debt-free. They are such a great example of how to live with God as your focus.

This video explains what they discovered about the birth control pill and why they stopped using it. They say that they got pregnant while on the pill and miscarried, and that the pill caused the miscarriage. So the Duggars studied the Bible about what it says about children, that children are gifts of God, and they decided to let God control how  many children they have. They have consecrated their fertility to God. They are great examples of sacrificing selfish desires to have more children. I am humbled by their commitment. I enjoy hearing Michelle quote scriptures as she says, “I have no greater joy than to see my children walk in truth.”

Here’s a video about the oldest son Josh and his wife and their beliefs, addressed to a youth group. They are following in Josh’s parents’ footsteps by giving their fertility to God and letting him control how many children they have. I like that they encourage youth not to start dating unless you are ready to get married.

Josh and Anna Duggar from FBC Bentonville on Vimeo.

Here’s a video about how the children feel about their mom being pregnant. Sadly, Michelle miscarried the baby the following month, in December 2011.

You can learn more about the Duggars at their official web site http://duggarfamily.com.

It has a blog by Michelle but I almost prefer the unofficial site http://duggarsblog.blogspot.com. The latter site is a blog kept by a homeschooling mom and daughter, Lily and Ellie. It usually tells you more about what is going on in the family more than the official site. It has new pictures there right now taken by Jinger.  It also has links to all the episodes of the Duggars’ TV shows with recaps. I am excited about the new episodes of 19 Kids and Counting returning in less than three weeks–mark your calender for August 28th at 9PM EST/8PM CST! The blogspot blog It also has some interviews with Michelle on the right hand side of the blog.

And there’s another family out there, the Bates of Tennessee, who have 19 kids and will start a new show for TLC called the United Bates of America. The Duggars and the Bates are great friends. In fact, the Duggars paid for and built the addition onto the Bates’ home for their expanding family. The video shows 18 kids but they have since had one more baby and “caught up” to the Duggars.

Come to the LDS Layton Music Workshop! It’s free and will inspire you to come closer to Christ through music. My youth went to this years ago and loved it.

Register at http://www.laytonutahmusicworkshop.com/register.php

Please note that the video says participants get a sack lunch, but the format has been changed to just be in the morning so there is no sack lunch.

This is a message from my dear girlfriend Shauna (the lady in the picture above is not Shauna but the author of the book that Shauna endorses below):

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Because of her daughter’s struggle with mental illness, Tamara was introduced to “Energy Therapy” through an old acquaintance.  Later, she “fortuitously met” a materials scientist on an airplane ride who later connected her with a world of scientists who were studying the very things she needed to understand in order to write “Healing Arts”.  This book contains a marriage between LDS theology of the “Light of Christ” and the scientifically recognized “Energy Fields” that surround, give life to, and control the human body.  Are the two fields of Religion and Science interconnected?  Read this book and you will see how all things are connected into “one great whole”.  Uncertain as to whether or not energy healing will help you and your family to heal?  Read on. 

 

As believers in the power of the Atonement and that Christ is the source of all healing, I had asked questions like: What is the “Light of Christ” as spoken of in the Book of Mormon in comparison to Oriental “Chi” that flows through everything?  What about prana?  What is an aura? Where are my emotions really stored?  How do I change my feelings about a negative situation when I feel powerless to make a difference?  This book will answer all such questions.

 

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Wow, The evils of white sugar are becoming more well-known in the mainstream media. Sugar can be as addictive as drugs and cause lots of health problems. The above video that aired last spring comes from 60 Minutes and claimed that sugar is toxic. Some of the people interviewed said that sugar causes hypertension, diabetes, and  heart disease. One scientist even said that he is investigating a link between sugar and cancer. Wow!

One of the guys in the video says that it is time to create public awareness about the dangers of sugar, just as has been done with alcohol and smoking. He says it’s time to create public pressure to limit your consumption of sugar. Cut back, he says. I think that’s funny. We already all know sugar is not good for you. We already know to limit our consumption. Cutting back on the “Mormon drug” is easier said than done, because it is sooo pleasurable and addictive. What we don’t know is the “how” of cutting back. Sugar is everywhere. We celebrate with it, we bribe with it, we reward with it, and we soothe nervous, anxious feelings with it. Sometimes we eat it to avoid what we should be doing.

True confessions: I have had times when I would eat sugar uncontrollably but I am happy to report that I am cured. I remember being 17 or so and eating so many Valentine sugar cookies with pink frosting that I almost got sick.  But I can now walk past a Twinkie and not eat it, or have cupcakes offered to me like I did at my family reunion vacation last week, and pass them up. I still occasionally will eat some cake or ice cream, but I can stop and not gorge myself. I can refuse the bishop’s wife’s offer of her incredibly decadent brownies at the neighborhood barbecue, and not even feel deprived! In short,  I have discovered the keys to breaking free of the sugar habit. It feels soooo good to feel satisfied and nourished with no sugar cravings. You can learn to enjoy sugar once in awhile, if you want to, without gorging or feeling deprived, or be completely off it, with no cravings.

I am offering mentoring to anyone who wants to break free of the sugar habit. Mentoring sessions will be done over the phone for 30 minutes a week, $25 a week or $100 a month. Please comment below if you are interested and I will contact you by email to discuss the details.