August 2024 Randoms

 My birthday card from the boys. John's note was funny.

This cat looks almost exactly like Romeo, down to the white mark on the chest. Twins!

Shutterfly sends me a blast from the past email every Friday. This was a fun one of John and my brother Nathan from 13 years ago. Now John is on his mission and Nate is getting married tomorrow!

Sam got a perm! The curly-haired, moppy look is in for the guys, and his straight locks weren't doing it for him. Apparently, a lot of guys are getting perms now. I think it looks great!

This was a funny coincidence. The above picture of Sam was taken at a hibachi restaurant called Ichigo Ichie. A few days later, while I was working at the library, I saw this book, The Book of Ichigo Ichie. I didn't realize it was a Japanese philosophy. Cool!

My friend Beth got me this cute little owl from the gift shop at Stonehenge in England!

Cool things in and near Boston. #6 is my favorite. 😊

I saw this in a catalog and liked the sentiment and the pretty picture of the woodland creatures (including two owls!).

I organized the tool shelves in the basement. 🙌

I sent my friend Sara this pretty card. She threw me the nicest little birthday luncheon.

FaceTiming with John for his weekly call home while he was in the MTC! 😀

Wisdom, Humor, and Inspiration in August 2024

 Here they are in the order I took them, with little commentary from me because I'm short on time and they pretty much speak for themselves anyway. I'm going to put a 😂 by the ones that I think are especially funny!

Me too

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This was from a webinar I watched

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Her laugh is grating 😫

This is one of my favorite Conference talks. What Elder Bednar teaches here makes so much sense, and I know it works because I experience it for myself.

Partaking of the sacrament and renewing my covenants with the Lord is the most important reason why I go to church each week.

This is one of my favorite stories in the Book of Mormon and has been since I was a kid. It became even more meaningful to me as a mother of sons. I taught a Sunday School lesson about it in August.

Turns out, she didn't need it to be. She did well in the debate thanks to the moderators not following up when she gave non-answers and not fact-checking her at all, while they did both of those things to Trump. But I'll save the rest of my insightful analysis 😜 for September's posts, since that's when the debate happened and we're talking about August here. I'm nothing if not orderly and organized. 😄

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