The Joy of Womanhood

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity."

-Margaret D Nadauld, YW General President

Sunday, November 23, 2008

I've Been Tagged!

I've been tagged by my good friend, Megan Eddie. She is an amazing woman and so talented! If you need help with any home decorating, refinishing furniture or cooking (and pretty much anything else) she is the one to ask!

The rules:
1. Post the rules
2. Answer the six "8" items
3. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving them a comment.


8 Favorite Shows
1. The Office
2. CSI
3. CSI - Miami
4. Law & Order
5. Law & Order - SVU
6. American Idol
7. The Biggest Loser
8. Sesame Street


8 Things I Did Yesterday
1. Visiting Teaching
2. Bonneville Craft Show
3. Had lunch at Johnny Carino's
4. Worked on Scentsy stuff
5. Went to dinner with John and some friends
6. Put Braxton to bed three times... :)
7. Read Primary Lesson for Sunday
8. Finished November's Book Club Book


8 Favorite Restaurants
1. Johnny Carino's
2. TGI Fridays
3. Texas Roadhouse
4. P.F. Changs
5. Jakers
6. Garcia's
7. Sol Rio
8. Mrs. Powell's


8 Things I'm Looking Forward To
1. Thanksgiving Dinner with my family
2. Going to Billings to see John's extended family
3. Christmas lights
4. Christmas with Braxton
5. Card exchange
6. Getting a treadmill
7. Reading the scriptures as a family
8. Bed


8 Things On My Wish List
1. Braxton would still take naps
2. To have my entire house clean all at the same time
3. Braxton will grow up to be a clean, honorable and humble man
4. I would always be happy and kind
5. A good memory
6. My 'To Do' List to be completely done
7. My own laptop computer
8. Dream house


8 People I Tag
1. Christi Billquist
2. Natalie Billquist
3. Angie Hansen
4. Jenny Vance
5. Korrie Davis
6. Jacob Davis
7. Pam Davis
8. Angey Lybbert

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Book Club

October's book club was so good! When it was first announced what we would be reading I wasn't super excited. But after reading the book, and then going to book club... I thought it was one of the best books I have read in a long time!




The book we read is Same Kind of Different as Me, by Ron Hall and Denver Moore. This book could possibly be life changing...

I loved the blurb that was on the website (so I just copied it on over to here... but go to the website to read more about this amazing book!)











"It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana... and an East Texas honky-tonk... and, without a doubt, in the heart of God. It unfolds in a Hollywood hacienda... an upscale New York Gallery... a downtown dumpster... a Texas ranch. Gritty with pain and betrayal and brutality, it also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love."
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The book switches back and forth between the two authors lives.
Denver Moore is a black man who grew up in Louisiana and raised under plantation-style slavery in the 1960s. That fact absolutely amazed me... when was slavery supposed to end - wasn't it 1865? Anyway, Denver ends up hopping onto a train and heads to Texas - a man that has never learned to read and has no skills other than cotton-picking. Denver doesn't have a lot of options for jobs. So Denver ends up homeless and then in prison and then again homeless.
Enter Deborah Hall in 1998 - an amazing woman with a very good heart. She is married to Ron Hall, a very successful international art seller who began his career in 1971. Ron loves the money, the job, the prestige... Deborah finds it all a little too much and manages to keep Ron on the ground with it all. Eventually they start working at a homeless shelter....
And then you have to read the book! I don't want to ruin it by telling to much, but it is a great book. The beginning started out a little slow, but after three or four chapters I couldn't put it down! Also, you may need some tissues for the the last 1/4 of it. I did!