Richardson Report

When it comes to documenting our family life I've been doing some sort of season thing I guess.  I just forget to get the photos off my phone. Halloween Taking hikes at Big River Noyo Harbor Our empty house.  Good-bye!  You've been good to us the past 10 years! We had some time to kill in Cloverdale, so I took the kids by a couple of the houses I grew up in. I remember the driveway of the gray house being much steeper.  Hmmm. 1985-1992  This house feels much smaller now that the trees have grown and the neighborhood has filled in. 1992-1996  My best sweeper Loving her bike And my helper Hannah and Faith are such buddies.  So sad that Faith won't remember all this. Playing with Idaho cousins FHE Faith really wanted to play Five Crowns with us tonight!  She felt so grown up!

My friend Ju recommended I listed to a BYU-Idaho Devotional given by someone she knew at the BYU Jerusalem center when she was there.   LINK . I finally got around to listening to it and there was one thought that really stood out to me.  Brother Bennion shared this quote from President Heber J. Grant:   "There is no danger of any man or woman losing his or her faith in this church if he or she is humble, and prayerful, and obedient to duty.  I have never known of such an individual losing his faith.  By doing our duty, faith becomes perfect knowledge...There is no power given to the adversary of men's souls to destroy us if we are doing our duty."      I loved the simplicity of that promise.  Brother Bennion says you may not feel like you have a calling of any significance (or indeed, any calling at all), but when you are doing the basic things you are supposed to do such as attending your meetings, taking care of your family, etc....

It's a wrap.  We are pretty much officially moved in.  I haven't hung the pictures on the walls yet.  Sort of waiting until Christmas is over -rather than decorate for two weeks and then re-decorate for a month, and then put it all back.  Anyway.  We are in.  Our garage is organized-ish.  I know where some  of our stuff is.  And life is going to start going like it should (hopefully - fingers crossed - knock on wood).  I'm so ready to be done with transition phase. We had our first Sunday in what is now our old ward.  Ha ha.  We will go to a different ward next week when the official boundary change takes place.  How's that for confusing??! It's time to get into homeschooling.  I just did something I haven't done in the last 12 years of my homeschooling career.  I bought a ton of curriculum.  I'm just sort of not excited to do middle school and yet I don't want to send Logan to school and he doesn't reall...