30 September 2012
Hi kids,
When I finished the last semester I was really nervous aboutstarting another one with even more credits. But at the same time I
kept having the thought that "I can do it"! I worried that I wouldn't
have time for anything else in my life...family, friends, work; that I
wouldn't be able to find the time to do my church calling or do my
visiting teaching either. But I felt strongly that if I would put
those things first, that everything else would work out. Then in the
first week of my Pathophysiology class, the teacher shared some
thoughts on success in school. He said that if we would always start
our day, or even our study session, with prayer and scriptures, this
would invite the spirit of the Holy Ghost, who would "teach" us. He
also suggested that we should review "every class, every day," to keep
them fresh in our minds.
Then today, in our Fifth Sunday lesson, the Bishop quoted several
verses in Alma 32, (27-34ish) where we are told that if we "desire" to
believe or to understand something, and if we do not "resist the
Spirit," our "understanding doth begin to be enlightened, and (our)
mind doth begin to expand." I feel that I really need these blessings
to get through this next year or so. I do "desire" to
understand...and I'm grateful for the gift of the Holy Ghost. I don't
promise to be a straight A student or anything, but I do believe I can
succeed.
I appreciate and love each one of you, and I'm so proud of you
and all you do. Thank you for your patience with me...someday I won't
be quite so crazy busy. Love, Mom/Johanna
p.s. Please let me know if I have any of your e-mail addresses wrong,
or if there are some I'm missing.
Hi Mom!
Thank you so much for your letter! It is great to hear from you and it is wonderful to hear all that you have been learning and especially your testimony. I love it!
It's amazing to me how we hear and read and are exposed to the things we need to learn at the times we need to learn them, if we will pay attention and notice them. I feel like I have been hearing and learning so much about sharing the gospel lately and am so grateful for it!
I know life is so crazy for you right now, but I am SO excited for you and all that you have going on and coming up. A new job!, and so close to getting your Bachelor's degree!, and all the things you are learning in life that you could never learn from a textbook. You are truly amazing to me, Mama, and I look up to you so very much! You and Daddy both.
Life has been crazy busy for us too, and I really don't know when it will change. I'm kind of starting to suspect that it will never be calm again, just like I felt like I would always be pregnant with Noah when he was so late. But really, I do think our busyness is here to stay, and probably get much busier before it gets calmer years and years from now. if it does then. The kids are getting bigger and busier themselves, and that means I am busier too.
We are going to change things a little bit, although I don't think it will change our busyness very much. I'm going to start homeschooling the bigger kids just in math. Meaning they will still go to school everyday and have their regular teachers and everything, but they will be at home during math time and I will teach them math. Actually, I'm going to start Ellen and Annie the week after General Conference, and will start Stephen in January when the new semester starts. Naomi is fine for now, but probably in the next year or two she will be home for math as well. It seems like a pretty drastic thing to do, but we really feel like the kids are not learning the math that they should be at school. The curriculum they use at school is very confusing, and we have learned with Stephen and Annie that it is doesn't teach them math very well. James has also been very concerned about it because he has seen so many, many people apply for jobs at SEL, that have degrees but cannot be hired because they just don't have the knowledge that they should have. We definitely aren't expecting all of the kids to be engineers, but we do want to give them the best education we possibly can so that they will be better prepared for whatever they do in life. We both feel like this will be the best way for them to learn the math that they need, and at the same time get all of the very, very important learning (not just book learning) that they need from public school. As for our busyness, it will take more time during the school day, but they won't have math homework in the evenings anymore, which is the bulk of their homework right now. So I'm looking forward to that!
Sorry to go on and on. We're all getting pretty excited about it!
The little ones are just fine. Naomi has figured out reading, which is always fun. Noah LOVES soccer. He asks every day if he has a game. Spencer is sitting up and his 2nd tooth just came in yesterday. And he loves to kiss/eat me. It's so fun!
Well I better go make sure the kids eat something. They are deep in a game of monopoly and I'm not too sure that the end is anywhere in sight.
Tanks again for you letter! I love you and miss you!
Love,
Aimee
P.S. I've been trying to update our blog every Sunday, if you get a chance to look at it.
Thank you so much for your letter! It is great to hear from you and it is wonderful to hear all that you have been learning and especially your testimony. I love it!
It's amazing to me how we hear and read and are exposed to the things we need to learn at the times we need to learn them, if we will pay attention and notice them. I feel like I have been hearing and learning so much about sharing the gospel lately and am so grateful for it!
I know life is so crazy for you right now, but I am SO excited for you and all that you have going on and coming up. A new job!, and so close to getting your Bachelor's degree!, and all the things you are learning in life that you could never learn from a textbook. You are truly amazing to me, Mama, and I look up to you so very much! You and Daddy both.
Life has been crazy busy for us too, and I really don't know when it will change. I'm kind of starting to suspect that it will never be calm again, just like I felt like I would always be pregnant with Noah when he was so late. But really, I do think our busyness is here to stay, and probably get much busier before it gets calmer years and years from now. if it does then. The kids are getting bigger and busier themselves, and that means I am busier too.
We are going to change things a little bit, although I don't think it will change our busyness very much. I'm going to start homeschooling the bigger kids just in math. Meaning they will still go to school everyday and have their regular teachers and everything, but they will be at home during math time and I will teach them math. Actually, I'm going to start Ellen and Annie the week after General Conference, and will start Stephen in January when the new semester starts. Naomi is fine for now, but probably in the next year or two she will be home for math as well. It seems like a pretty drastic thing to do, but we really feel like the kids are not learning the math that they should be at school. The curriculum they use at school is very confusing, and we have learned with Stephen and Annie that it is doesn't teach them math very well. James has also been very concerned about it because he has seen so many, many people apply for jobs at SEL, that have degrees but cannot be hired because they just don't have the knowledge that they should have. We definitely aren't expecting all of the kids to be engineers, but we do want to give them the best education we possibly can so that they will be better prepared for whatever they do in life. We both feel like this will be the best way for them to learn the math that they need, and at the same time get all of the very, very important learning (not just book learning) that they need from public school. As for our busyness, it will take more time during the school day, but they won't have math homework in the evenings anymore, which is the bulk of their homework right now. So I'm looking forward to that!
Sorry to go on and on. We're all getting pretty excited about it!
The little ones are just fine. Naomi has figured out reading, which is always fun. Noah LOVES soccer. He asks every day if he has a game. Spencer is sitting up and his 2nd tooth just came in yesterday. And he loves to kiss/eat me. It's so fun!
Well I better go make sure the kids eat something. They are deep in a game of monopoly and I'm not too sure that the end is anywhere in sight.
Tanks again for you letter! I love you and miss you!
Love,
Aimee
P.S. I've been trying to update our blog every Sunday, if you get a chance to look at it.
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