WHITTACRE FAMILY BLOG

 Merry Christmas! If you didn't get a Christmas letter from us this year and you would like to in the future. Please message me on Facebook your address and I will put it in my newly formed and updated Address list. I was very poor and keeping a good address book the last 14 years but I finally figured it out...Took me long enough. But here it is for all who didn't get one. I hope you all have an awesome Christmas and a Happy New Year! The year 2014 has brought us unexpected, but good surprises. It just goes to show that you need to  listen to the Spirit at all times because those still small voices come when you least expect it.                  In early May as Nathan and I prepared to retire our eyes for the night. Nathan jokingly commented that we should list our house and move on a whim. I recall the moment well. It actually reminds me of our third date when I had just told him ...

I was talking to my friend today. She shared with me a story of a Family Home Evening lesson that her 18 year old son gave. I won't say names because I don't want anyone to feel like I am putting them on the spot. But they know who they are and can reveal themselves if they need to set this story straight. But I just had to share because I found this to be so profound, I couldn't help but immediately want to get up and blog it! So here it is in a nutshell. He has some younger siblings so he decided to share how Santa became a part of Christmas since the "real" meaning behind Christmas is about our Savior.  I have never in my life heard this analogy and frankly it should be told. IMO! First there is Santa Claus. We see a red suit trimmed in white with a long white beard.  Red represents the blood of our Savior who died for us. White resembles purity in which our Savior was in every way and his ability to purify us of our sins through his sacrifice if we foll...

      So I have been thinking a lot lately about how I am just not a "cookie cutter" cut out. I am not "like" everyone else.  I took a silly FaceBook test that told me I was Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and that I was not "like" everyone else. I had to agree. I thought it was interesting how I was just thinking about that. Now granted we are all individual and we are all different in many ways.       First example. Last night I shocked a classroom of twenty four students and a teacher, it made me think about how I am different. First of all. I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. With that comes stereotypes from the world. Now because I am on the "inside" I do fall into many of the "stereotypical" characteristics of being a member. I don't drink, smoke, or shop on Sundays. True story.       My class did know that I am a member as well as having five children. So my subject of my paper involved tor...