David Journal

Category: Journal

  • What a day

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    Hopefully I’ll come back and flesh this out but I at least wanted to record the outline of what happened today. I worked from home in the early part of the day and Laura sent to see her psychologist with a mission to learn how to improve while honoring her limitations. She came back after…

  • Stitches for Emma

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    Around noon today Laura called me to say that she was at the school and that Emma had fallen on the playground and split her lip. The end result was a trip to Primary Children’s to get stitches on her lip. Laura didn’t want to risk leaving a scar on such a prominent place due…

  • A life well loved

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    This morning as I was about to hop in the shower Alyssa came to my room and called out to me, “Dad it’s Mitzi, she’s slow and not very responsive this morning.” I went downstairs and Alyssa was holding Mitzi who we walking slowly and wobbly and keeping her eyes closed. It was clear that…

  • Peeking around a corner

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    Laura and I had a talk like never before. We had what seems to have been a breakthrough without anyone getting upset. Not only that but she listened to what I had to say and understood the value in following my counsel. The end result is that she will go back to counseling so that…

  • Stop helping

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    Laura us complaining that I am exhausted to the point of shouting at the kids. She says that she has been helping as much as possible but that at this point I need to figure out how to get a rest. The train I am so exhausted us because she is almost never helping while…

  • This was my day

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    Last night I tried to go to bed early enough to be tested for conference. Instead I had to go rescue Savannah at 11PM when the car wouldn’t start. I finally left the car and bright her home. That left me going to bed late and expecting that I would need to replace the car…

  • Children and Youth

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    President Nelson “And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.” This is at the heart of the new youth program. This is going to be VERY INDIVIDUALIZED. To the parents: Please build strong relationships with your children. … Resist the temptation to take over for them. President Ballard…

  • Impossible context

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    Laura has great ideas about how to socialize children and set a positive foundation by activities such as going to museums. She fails to contemplate the differences between trying to set such a foundation between the hours of 9AM and 9PM vs trying to set that foundation between the hours of 5PM and 9PM while…

  • Coming back around

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    I notice today that Laura is again speaking as if she identifies as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ. It had been many months since I have heard her speak of the church as if she identifies with it in more than a historical “I grew up in the church” kind of way.

  • Retiring the flag

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    Brother Blackwell had a flag retiring ceremony for pack meeting tonight and I really appreciated how solemnly he insisted on the boys treating it. He told the boys at the outset that they were not to soak unless called upon. When one of the boys in this rowdy group treated him he quickly warned that…