Charlie Brown's Christmas

It's Christmas in the library too. We read How The Grinch stole Christmas and this week we're watching Charlie Brown's Christmas. I ask these questions before the show that I found online athttps://homeschoolsuperfreak.com/free-charlie-brown-christmas-movie-lessons-activities/:
Pre-Show questions
1. A Charlie Brown Christmas is a made for TV special that some families have a tradition of watching every holiday
season. What are some traditions you have with your family? Can you think of a new tradition to try this year?
2. Charlie Brown can't seem to catch the holiday spirit. What do you do to get you in the holiday mood?
3. Charlie Brown doesn't think the true meaning of Christmas can be bought at a store. What do you think is the true
meaning of Christmas?
4. Charlie Brown is feeling down and out, and his friends try to cheer him up. How do you help cheer up friends when
they are feeling blue?

and these at the end, again thanks to https://homeschoolsuperfreak.com/free-charlie-brown-christmas-movie-lessons-activities/ :
POST-SHOW QUESTIONS
1. At the beginning of the show, Charlie Brown says he doesn’t understand Christmas. Do you think he understands
it better at the end of the show? How would you explain Christmas to someone like Charlie Brown?
2. Commercialization means to exploit or manage something to make a profit. What other holidays are commercialized? What is lost when people commercialize things?
3. Linus says that the tree Charlie Brown got ‘just needed a little love.’ What have you made better by giving a little
love? What other things that don’t cost money can you give during the holiday season, and the rest of the year?
4. All the kids work together at the end to give Charlie Brown a Christmas gift. When have you worked together with
others? How is working as a team different than doing something by yourself? How does cooperation and teamwork make you feel?

Thanks to a coworker, we read The Quilter's Gift earlier this month too. I love finding books that I've never heard of as well as ones that I remember from my childhood.

It was short lived. We were asked not to show this when our administration walked through at the part where Linus is giving the true meaning of Christmas. When I got home and told my family, they ageed that it would be better if there was more holidays celebrated, not less.

CHAMPION Happy Halloween

I found this(It was in my Google Drive because my Amazingly Marvels Aunty Maureen sent it to me a few years ago. She deserves all the credit.) and printed it out for my Mommsy to use in Activity Day and I ended up sharing it in my testimony in testimony meeting this month. I almost talked myself out of it. Telling myself that I was dumb and everyone had probably hear it already and that it wasn't appropriate for church, but after the meeting, a few people asked me for a copy. Life Lesson: Listen to the promptings of the Spirit.

New Pics

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Are you stuck?

This morning I got up earlier than normal because my parents are out of town so that meant that I needed to make my own breakfast and my lunch too(I'm so spoiled).When I was on my way over to the school, I'd forgotten something so I went to turn around and got stuck on the park strip. My brother in-law flipped around to make sure that I was alright and my stake president stopped too. I'm grateful to live where others are looking out for me. I should've told President Taylor the truth: that I'm more stuck than I'd like to admit.

This made me smile today.

What's made you smile?

H.O.P. E.

In ARP I learned that hope stands for:
H: Hold
O: on
P: pain
E: ends
Thankfully, I know this to be true because of my Savior Jesus Christ.

Eatting an Elephant

I am learning what it means to take it "one bite at a time." Of course, life teaches me this lesson in multiple ways:

My most recent experience was when my pa told me to come with him to help my sister clean up her spring cleaning debris from pruning her trees and then again to help with her basement remodel project. CHAMPION Thx my Maymers(My nickname for Amy) for more than one opportunity to give back. You're always around to help me. I was frustrated that I could only do it one hand-full at a time and everyone kept raking more of it to me to pick up and put into a garbage can to be thrown in the green waste trailer that they'd rented, but I kept working, even when my 3 year old nephew, Bryce, asked me, "Why are you helping us?"
I continue to get taught this lesson. Something about a "Soul Echo?" Other "elephants" that I continue to "eat:"

-I want to back to school for a Masters Degree in either Speech and/or Spanish.I love learning and working one-on-one with kids, but I'll need to take the GRE to get into a program . . .
_I'm in a 100 mile challenge with my twin bro, Matt; his miles are running and mine are on a reccumbant bike. The first one to the goal, buys Cafe Rio for the other. So, either way I win.
-I told my therapists at Neuroworx that I wanted to do a double or nothing no matter who wins the 100 mile challenge and do a challenge of 200 push ups and pull ups. They're CHAMPION excited and are helping me do modified push-ups and pull-ups, but when I first told my President Pa Baugh about this, he said, "Let's see if you can do one first." Oh, ye of little faith.
-Weekly ARP Meetings
-My "Dailys" of prayers, scripture study and recently added journal entries.
-Weekly temple attendance(I've got two weeks under my belt and love the focus of the "Lord's University" gives me.
-Doing stairs at my parent's one foot on every step instead of stepping on every stair with both feet. It actually feels like i get some where now.

Is Anybody Watching Curtis?

I think I've written about my experience in the hospital cafeteria when I ate something spicy, so I took a napkin an wipped off my tongue.Well, to Matt, it looked like I was trying to eat the napkin. :o So he asked this question to everyone at the table. I just spent two weekends in a row with my Matt and his family. His two girls were constantly asking me this question. They caught me sitting on the front steps of my parent's cabin because I had forgot to bring my cain with me to use to get back up the stairs and me biting my nails because I cannot use a nail-clipper to cut my nails on my right hand. I am glad that someone's watching me, because that means that they care.

Phone-less

Living with my parent's, I get 24/7 access to my President Pa Baugh's wisdom. when I got into trouble on my phone, He quoted scripture, "And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and. cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee. that one of thy members should perish, and not. that thy whole body should be cast into hell." -Matthew 5:30. So, I gave him my phone.

Jedi Only sign in the library On My Story Time Seat

My Colester's Baptisim

I was able to baptize him and it felt like it was the reason that I was still alive.

NEVER GIVE U

This is my Life theme right now.

"It Could Be Worse." & " Far From Lonely."

There's no easy way to put this: Lex and I got a divorce after Christmas. I want to defend her. It was because of my infidelity and not because of my handicap. Right after our divorce, we had a family get together for my Maymers' Kyle's baby blessing, so I got to see my GB(Grandma Baugh & not Great Briton(insert eye roll emoji.). That is where the, "It could be worse" quote comes from.This was the first thing that she said to me. I thought that she didn't understand my pain, but I've since, calmed down and realized that she's right. I do have a loving family that continues to carry me.
The second quote in this title comes from my greatest fear about moving back in with my parent's was that I'd be terribly lonely. But, thanks to my Maymers living next door, I'm far from lonely, in fact, up until last week I was her son Bryce's "best friend." Over Spring Break, my Maxwell replaced me.