MaeLyn's Musings

Last night, the cold front moved in. We woke to a couple inches of snow on the ground and a few trillion more tiny snowflakes steadily falling. The world is white, and COLD! The electronic sign in front of the boys' school said it was 9 degrees when I dropped them off at school this morning. Brrrrr! Luckily, we all had coats, hats, scarves and mittens to help us keep warm. This morning, I was thinking some more about Zeniff and his people in the Book of Mormon. I realized that I still have some questions that weren't answered during Institute yesterday (because there wasn't a good opportunity to ask). I don't know if anyone can give a decisive answer on them until we have opportunity to talk to the people involved themselves, but I though I'd put them out here in case any of my readers have any ideas about them. 1. Why would a righteous king pass the kingdom on to a wicked son? Zeniff was a righteous guy. Under his leadership, the Nephites fought their battles ...

This is my most recent Photoshop project. My problem now is I've used all the people and pets that live in the house, and I can't decide on three more people/animals/whatever to use for the last three cards. Ideas I've had so far are: Duplicate people I've already done... but I only need three more, and how would I decide who? The house, the car, and something else? Extended family members, but again, how would I decide who? A few of Peter's stuffed animals... He's got a lot to choose from, but they've been confiscated for the week... The last three things the cats have brought in: a bird, a dragonfly and a grasshopper... that's a possibility, but I'd have to find pictures of some other dragonfly and grasshopper. They weren't very pretty by the time I found them lying on the living room floor and took them back outside.  What do you think I should do?

What are you reading? What is the most recent book you have read? Do you like it? Would you recommend it to someone else? Here is what I would like from you (yes, you, the one who is reading this blog right now): Click on the link below that says "comments". Write the name of the book you are reading right now (or most recently finished). On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being you really like it, 1 you hate it, rate the book and type the number. Write yes or no, whether or not you would recommend the book to someone else, like me. If you have any additional comments about the book you can type them, too. For example, here's mine: The Dragon Reborn, 5, yes. This is the third book of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, and I am reading this series for the second time. If you are the type that has multiple books in progress at the same time, feel free to list all the books you are reading. I look forward to hearing from you!

I am, by nature, a skeptic. I don't believe everything I hear or see. When I get something in the mail saying, "You've Won!", the first thing I look at is the fine print. When I see a story in a forwarded email or Facebook post, Snopes is the first place I check. When my kids tell me a far-fetched sounding "fact" they learned somewhere, I have to Google it, check out Wikipedia, and a few other sources, before I will believe it to be true. On the other hand, there are a lot of incredible things that I do believe in - strongly. I believe in ghosts. I believe in miracles. I believe that in 1820, a 14 year old boy in New York state saw God and his son, Jesus Christ. I believe that boy, Joseph Smith, later translated an ancient record which was written by people living here in the Americas, and I believe that the words written in that record about Jesus Christ are true; I believe that the Book of Mormon is true. If I am a skeptic, why do I believe in these fa...