Tag: Emma
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Stitches for Emma
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…
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Timpanogos
We hiked Timpanogos cave as a family today. Isaac chose to go to the temple instead but the other nine of us had a great time. The hike up to the cave was harder than Laura remembered but we all weathered it pretty well. The cave was awesome. In the decade plus since any of…
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New bunnies
Assuming we never get Coconut back (though I still hope we will see her again) we have found the perfect bunny solution for these kids. In Quail Cove Park across the street from the Mt. Timpanogos temple there are wild bunnies that are enough used to people that they are often in plain sight and…
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Spring Break
I didn’t mention yesterday that I am hoping to write journal entries more consistently again because I have had a few experiences in recent months that I have meant to record and didn’t so that now all I remember is the feeling that I meant to record them but I have no memory of what…
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April…no foolin’
Today after work Laura asked me to take the kids to the park and the boys wanted to ride to Art Dye park. I took Emma’s bike in the van and told Ezra that he couldn’t ride the scooter all the way to the park and off we went. Emma told me she didn’t want…
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Arise from the dust and be men
In that invitation for his sons to be men I hear the exaggeration, frustration, and pleading of Lehi. He sees the limitations of his influence and knows the sons her is speaking to are capable of being better than they have been performing. It is my tone with Isaac and often Enoch and Noah and…
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Goodbye Marinette
Tonight I held Marinette as she passed away. She has been struggling for weeks. We thought she was getting better but Mariah saw that she was laying down and alerted me that she was unlikely to survive the night. I held her for over half an hour as she struggled to breath and finally she…
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A Turning Point
Emma woke me up a couple of times last night and after the second time for some reason I began remembering the time period when she was born – March of 2013 – and felt the need to record those memories. During the first months of 2013 I was commuting from Bountiful to Lehi to…
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Emma is home
Today Andy requested that Laura and I meet with him and Lily at their house without our kids to talk parenting stuff – clearly important but quite vague. When we got there we talked about how Ezra is progressing but then they switched gears to the actual purpose of the meeting. They discovered last night…
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Guinea pigs
Among the first things this morning Mariah called me to her room where she told me that Molly had died last night. We cried and talked about how much Molly had shown her love even while she was sick. Later tonight it occurred to me that she might have gotten such partly because I forgot…