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We baptize our kids on their birthdays. On Friday we baptized and celebrated with the very last one. These are my favorite birthdays. Lots of family, lots of good friends and the opportunity to remember what is REALLY important. Here is the birthday girl and some of the fun we had.

Worth reading, I promise.

I have a few years of parenting under my belt. More than some of you and not as much as others. I also have a tremendous age range between my 9 children - the oldest being 33 years old and the youngest being 7 years old. Very briefly and succintly, these are a few things I wish I had done differently, better, earlier or more. I wish I had **Helped my children understand their personal relationship with their Heavenly Father earlier in their life. He is real and active in their lives and they need to be accountable to him (even more so than their earthly parents). The choices they make, the way they live their lives should be about pleasing their Father in Heaven; and by default pleasing me :) **Personally rely on the Lord more and the "world" less. Included in my definition of the "world" is our Latter-Day Saint "world" that occasionally made/makes me feel like I am not doing the "right" thing. I am just a steward of these beautiful spirit...

When an angry outburst to a child ends up to be an answer to prayer that said child was praying about earlier - can it get better than that? Relieves my guilt over the outburst even if my frustration was justified.

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