In Print

It came in the mail yesterday.  My largest blog book to date.  

The kids saw it sitting on the counter and couldn't believe how huge it was.  I have every year since I started blogging in 2007.  The one from 2013 was the size of 3 previous years.  The cool thing is what my kids find enjoyable to mock me about…..my super spiritualness.  They tease me about it all the time.  Just the other night when I was reminding my husband that he was our sherpa Jared (my science kid who places a large value on worldly knowledge) paid me one of the biggest compliments he could by saying that I was the trainer of all sherpas.  I'll take it because the kids have no doubt in their mind what their Mom believes.  

One of the phrases of the Book of Mormon that I remind myself of all the time is found in Alma 56:

47 Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the ^aliberty of their ^bfathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their ^cmothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them.

 48 And they rehearsed unto me the words of their ^amothers, saying: We ^bdo not doubt our mothers knew it.

There they all are.  All 7 years.  I will admit that it gives me a certain amount of pride to see the legacy I'm leaving for my posterity.  That they will know who we were and what we believed and hopefully gain strength and testimony from it.  It has already strengthened my own testimony to go back and read.  The natural man seems too eager to forget what he already knows.  

There is a quote by Benjamin Franklin that Elder Oaks used in a book I just read by him, "Life's Lessons Learned" 

"In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility."

I love that!  It makes me chuckle at it's truthfulness!  

There are the previous 6 years.  I'm either going to have to make more copies or figure out who to will them all to :)  I just need to combine more years and do them in paperback so each of the kids can have them.