First of all, isn't Allyson awesome for executing this idea? I know I'm a day behind, but I had a neat experience regarding this talk that I want to share. I've been thinking hard about doing the best things--and feeling pretty gulty, sometimes. Then I went in for my Stake Temple Recommend interview. Presdient Rothesberger thanked me for choosing the best thing by staying home with my kids intsead of pursuing a career with my master's degree. I went home thinking, "You mean I'm already doing the best thing? I don't have to feel guilty!!" Of course, I was feeling guilty again the other day for not being able to accomplish very much because I was soooo tired. As I thought about it though, I realized that I'd spent two hours in Scott's class, read to Curtis and snuggled with him, and helped Scott with his homework--teaching him to read--and fed my family dinner, and held Family HOme Evening. Those were the most important things, and I did them without even thinking about it. If this is true for me, it's true for each of us! So we can de-stress and just try a little harder on the things we don't do perfectly.

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Joshua and I read the talk last night. I remember hearing it in conference and it was good to read it with Joshua. Of course I didn't get much info out of Joshua as to what he thought of it. It made me think about the choices I make with my time. I especially liked the story about the family that went on a bunch of vacations and the sons favorite thing was laying on the grass looking at the stars. I think sometimes we feel we have to "make" wonderful memories for our kids, when in fact its the little things that they will remember the most.

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Here we go, I am excited to get started. I posted this weeks weekly reading list which I will update..... surprise weekly! I started us out with just a chapter a day, excepts Sunday I figured we could handle a little more on Sunday. Let me know how the chapter a day works for you. So just post your comments whenever and in about a month we will try to get together. Here is the link for the Good, Better, Best talk by Elder Oaks. http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,49-1-775-38,00.html I really liked this conference talk and thought it would be a good way to kick off our Book of Mormon reading.