• Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.Benjamin Franklin

    To choose time is to save time.Francis Bacon

    A man who comes to his own conclusions must be ready to defend his sources. Robert Gallagher

    The greatest joy in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.Nelson Mandela

    Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. Vernon Howard

    It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong. Martin H. Fischer

    The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler

    How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. Robert Brault

    Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.Gandhi

    In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. Paul Eldridge

    Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.Louis L'Amour

    Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. Vilfredo Pareto

    There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather

    Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. Thomas Huxley

    Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.Henry Ward Beecher

    Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.Oscar Wilde

    The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.Thich Nhat Hanh

    This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.Ralph Waldo Emerson

    You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. H.G. Wells

    Love always creates. It never destroys. In this, lie’s man’s only promise.Leo Buscaglia

    Looking back, you realize that most all your questions would have answered themselves if you had only stopped interrupting. Robert Brault

    Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. Florence Nightingale

    Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. Henry L. Doherty

    We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our childrenNative American Proverb

    Eventually, in our quest for knowledge, there will be one thing left to understand, and when we come to understand it, it will change our understanding of everything else. Robert Brault

    The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes

    Meanwhile, in the ongoing quest to find myself, I have called off the search and begun a recovery operation. Robert Brault

    A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.Anonymous

    We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. R. Baker

    It is no use saying we are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.Winston Churchill

    You reach a point where you don’t work for money.Walt Disney

    Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.Henry Ford

  • My Personal Favorites

  • Share the joy!

    with_text_tall
    <a href="http://www.momessentials.net/"> <img src="http://www.momessentials.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/tall.png"> </a>
    Click here for more buttons
  • My Fun Videos

  • I Get Tons of Great Deals Here-Love It!

December 24, 2009

Our Annual Family Newsletter

Dear friends and family,

We love the Christmas season and the opportunity to receive and share photos and letters with loving friends and remember our Savior. This year, we turned the letter writing over to, ME! Raquel.

Raquel Scarf Web

Baby Joel is bouncy and very fun to be around! He is running like a pro and is starting to say some words such as Mom, Dad, and “A phone.” He is a happy wanderer (like previous models) and loves food and the dogs.

Joel Close Web

Liliana is our little girly-girl, loving to have tea parties and play with her dolls. I personally don’t love her ALL the time, having her in my room and all.

Lily Leaves Web

Seth is our locomotive. He had fun this fall doing Joyschool with Lily and some other friends. He and Isaac get along really well. He is great at unloading our dishwasher.

Seth '09 Web

Isaac is loving the charter school here! He is great at making friends and making people laugh. After all, Isaac means laughter! He loves to do everything Nathan does.

Isaac '09 Web

I, Raquel, love making things, especially treats. I am trying to be an organized girl. I really like rock-climbing and ballet, newspaper club at school, and violin. I also love to write books!

Raquel '09 Web

Nathan loves playing the guitar. He is still into designing and engineering. He played baseball this year, and flew a plane!!! He and I are taking both piano and voice lessons.

Nathan Web

We have had a friend, Natalia living with us since May. She’s a real help. All of the kids love her!!!

My Mom, Jenni, has been working and working on her new blog about doctoring, cooking and schooling at home, and is having fun with it. She’s also taking voice lessons and singing a lot.

Jenni headshot web

My Dad, Mike, has been teaching at George Wythe College and working in the ER. He is in his fifth year helping with the Boy Scouts (maybe he still hasn’t learned everything he’s supposed to).

Mike Web

Highlights of our Year

Nathan: Working as a program seller at the Shakespearian Festival, hiking around Machu Picchu

Program Selling

Me:  Being a Scottish doll in Coppelia. Program selling. Whale watching, Boston Science museum, Louisa May Alcott house

Isaac: Visiting the Native People at the Plymouth Plantation on our Boston trip, going to the charter school

Seth: Playing Dominoes at Grandma’s house, Joyschool

Lily: Going to Joyschool this fall, playing with her kitchen set, cutting her own hair

Joel: Joining the big kids in nursery at church

Dad: Taking Nathan to a Springsteen concert, taking a great group to Bolivia, the Minuteman museum

Mom: Finishing her Master Herbalist degree (finally!), launching her Dr Mom Essentials blog

We love hearing from you all and seeing your beautiful lives and families. Thank you for keeping in touch and sharing your friendship with us. We hope the Lord’s richest blessings will be with you and yours throughout the coming year.

Love, Mike, Jenni, Raquel, Nathan, Isaac, Lily, Seth & Joel

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...

5 Comments

  1. Margo says:

    It’s so fun to see your family growing up thru the years. Thanks for keeping in touch. Sorry your letter came back.

    I look forward to reading your blog, it’s very similar to what I am doing in my life.

    Take care,
    Margo

    • Jenni says:

      Margo,
      Thanks for sending me your new address. It’s fun to be in touch with you and see how your family is growing as well. I remember our talks about health and alternative therapies. You helped open my mind to different possibilities. I look forward to hearing more of your comments and sharing more ideas with you.
      Jenni

  2. Sue Anderson says:

    Seth looks so much like Ben! It’s pretty crazy.

    =)

  3. Lisa says:

    Hi Jenni!!
    When was your family in Boston?? I Live 30 minutes from Boston!! Hope you had fun visiting here!! Lisa & Rick

    • momessentials says:

      Fun! It’s been a couple years, but we’ve wanted to go back sometime. My cousin Lisa moved away, so we’ll see.

Leave a Comment

CommentLuv badge

Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting.

Copyright © 2012 Mom Essentials. All rights reserved.

Wordpress Theme by Abe Fawson - www.goodfront.com