by Jennifer Barker | May 6, 2019 | Family, Parenting, Religion
Last week, my youngest and I spent a week with my daughter and her family, who live about 8 hours (driving) from our house. It was a wonderful time of celebration and rejoicing, as my oldest grandson had his eighth birthday and chose to follow Jesus Christ and be...
by Jennifer Barker | Apr 29, 2019 | Family, Homeschool, Parenting, Religion
There’s No Place Like Home: this sentiment, along with a more current one, Home is my Happy Place, expresses my feelings about home. I love having a place that is safe, comfortable, loving, and most importantly, centered on the Savior, Jesus Christ, so it can be...
by Jennifer Barker | Apr 22, 2019 | Family, Parenting, Religion
Each year at Easter time, I’ve tried to make it a time of study and reflection about the last week of the Savior’s life. Many years ago, I made a book of Easter week reading for my family. I went through all four gospels and tried to combine everything Matthew, Mark,...
by Jennifer Barker | Apr 1, 2019 | Divorce, Family, Parenting, Religion
Spring time. Conference time. Easter time. I love it all. It amazes me how blessed we are with the knowledge of our Savior, Jesus Christ, and the Plan of Happiness our Father designed for us. It’s part of the good news of the gospel that we have a living prophet on...
by Jennifer Barker | Mar 18, 2019 | Family, Parenting, Religion
In the Lord’s prayer, the Savior instructs us to say, “Thy will be done.” He then teaches us what this looks like by His perfect example throughout His life and, most poignantly, during His suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane. When discussing this concept in a ward...
by Jennifer Barker | Jan 22, 2019 | Parenting, Self-care
I used to have the missionaries over to dinner fairly regularly. (I’m going back about 18 years here.) I had three young sons I figured would likely serve missions one day and would need feeding, so I was doing my part in the hopes that someone else would do the same...
