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		<title>Teaching Children to Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the values in the LDS church is teaching children to have a strong work ethic.  I&#8217;m trying hard to teach this to my kids.  I feel like our society has become so lazy, especially with all of these distractions like iPhones, Blackberries, etc.  I&#8217;m witnessing a lot of teens who don&#8217;t work, don&#8217;t want to work, have a sense of entitlement, and coincidentally, they have a lot of luxuries handed to them by their parents. I grew up with a very modest allowance and I learned quickly that money doesn&#8217;t grow on trees.  If I wanted to go out to dinner, most of the time my mom would ask if I was paying.  I thought about it for a moment and changed my mind because I knew I would want to buy a car in 4 years when I turned 16.  I would have to work very hard to save for that and I was also more likely to treat the car with care because I wouldn&#8217;t be able to replace it.  Every time I think about these punk teenagers hot rodding around my parents&#8217; neighborhood, I swear I have steam coming out of my ears.  No teen could afford that.  Their parents obviously paid for those cars and they use them to terrorize others.  The ones smashing people&#8217;s windshields for the fun of it &#8211; I wonder if they have any clue that their victims have to pay a deductible?  We were already in financial despair when someone smashed a window on my husband&#8217;s truck.  He couldn&#8217;t get to work until it was repaired, costing us even more money. I wish I could remember which conference this was and who said it, but one of our General Authorities (church leaders) said, &#8220;The more you give your children, the more they want.&#8221;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pouring Blessings</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonbloggers.com/247289/pouring-blessings</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blessings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tithing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love the phrases in the scriptures involving the Lord pouring blessings upon us.  Something about that image makes me smile.  Malachi 3:10 says: Bring ye all the atithes into the storehouse, that there may be bmeat in mine house, and cprove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not dopen you the ewindows of heaven, and pour you out a fblessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. This has been one of our harder months financially since we made the decision to bite the bullet and head to Utah to see my in-laws after 3 1/2 years.  I felt that the Lord was telling me everything was going to be OK.  Logically, I didn&#8217;t see how, but I went with that whispering of the Spirit.  Between sickness, being out of town, and more sickness, we had three months worth of tithing that still needed to be paid.  It made me cringe a bit writing that check, but I see it as the Lord&#8217;s money &#8211; not mine.  I still felt we would be taken care of. Thursday night was the start of my husband&#8217;s on-call schedule at work (doing maintenance).  He usually gets a decent amount of overtime while on-call, but as of Monday night, he already had 41 hours of on-call pay, which is overtime pay, and he still had two more full days to go.   Because he traded schedules with someone, he will be on-call twice this month.  I had been pretty worried about dipping into savings to buy groceries (which we&#8217;re trying to keep for moving expenses), but it looks like the next payday will help us cover the extra costs from our travel, plus van repairs that we need. Two days after we got back from Utah, my father-in-law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judging Others</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonbloggers.com/244479/judging-others</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elder Oaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judging Others]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Righteous Judgment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up as a Mormon, there was a strong emphasis on not judging others.  As a child, I thought judging was wrong no matter what until it was pointed out that we are supposed to judge righteously.  But what did that mean?  Didn&#8217;t that just make an excuse to judge others? To judge righteously doesn&#8217;t mean we get to label others or jump to conclusions.  I know how much it hurts to be misunderstood and especially to have people spread misinformation when they don&#8217;t even know me, but reading this, it makes total sense.  One of our church&#8217;s General Authorities explained this concept very well in a talk called &#8220;Judge Not&#8221; and Judging. Elder Oaks helps clear up confusion for those so focused on teachings like &#8220;Judge not lest ye be judged&#8221;.  If there were a boy I didn&#8217;t feel comfortable going on a date with &#8211; well, I didn&#8217;t want to be judgmental.  If I said &#8220;no&#8221;, wouldn&#8217;t that mean I was judging him?  Or choosing friends?  For me to turn down an offer to hang out because I thought a group of friends might be a bad influence, wouldn&#8217;t that be judging too? Yes, it would, but it would be righteous judgment.  I could be friendly to the teenagers at my school who spent their time smoking and doing drugs, but I could also judge that it would be unwise to spend time alone with them.  Elder Oaks says we&#8217;re not to make final judgments, so I wouldn&#8217;t make comments about the destination of their souls &#8211; I&#8217;m just setting a boundary to keep myself safe. As a mother, I feel like I make more judgments than I ever did before.  I have to carefully observe anyone who might influence my children including their teachers, babysitters, friends, friends&#8217; parents, etc.  Most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Son&#8217;s Baptism</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonbloggers.com/241373/my-sons-baptism</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baptism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heavenly Father]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My second son was baptized almost a week ago.  It was almost the perfect day &#8211; the only problem I can think of is one of my best friends being a little late because a neighbor parked in front of her garage and wouldn&#8217;t answer their door.  But then she showed up with her delicious brownies made from scratch, as promised. My son was so excited and the look on his face as he came out of the water was pure joy.  My whole side of the family was able to join us and we limited it to a very small number of friends because my son is shy.  His 13-year-old cousin gave the talk on baptism and I spoke on the Holy Ghost. Before I talked about the Spirit, I gave him his own set of scriptures with a carrying case.  Attached to it was a compass and I explained how a compass and the scriptures were similar in how they help us get to our destination.  To take an analogy further, I told him how our GPS could be compared to the Holy Ghost.  In order to hear the GPS voice, we need it to be quiet enough so we can hear what it says.  Also like the Holy Ghost, when we go the wrong way, the GPS will tell us how to get back on track.  It will say &#8220;recalculating&#8221;.   As we make mistakes in life, the Spirit can help us get back on the path towards our Heavenly Father. I could have added more to the analogy.  In order to stay close to the Spirit, we need to keep the commandments and repent.  It takes some action on our part to be in tune.  In order to use a GPS, we need to enter an address, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Father&#8217;s Example</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonbloggers.com/237211/a-fathers-example</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fatherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re back from Utah and two days after we got home, my father-in-law e-mailed to tell us he is having serious heart trouble.  If we hadn&#8217;t just spent two wonderful weeks with him, I would be panicking.  I would be buying an airline ticket with a credit card to at least send my husband down.  I just couldn&#8217;t accept almost 4 years ago being the last time he would ever see his dad.  In his e-mail, he used the words &#8220;not good&#8221; and &#8220;dangerous&#8221;.  It will be determined later this month what kind of pacemaker he will have and whether a defibrillator will be necessary on top of that.  I don&#8217;t know what the Lord&#8217;s will is.  I hope so much that he will make it through this, but I&#8217;m scared.  I went to visit my mom last night and she could tell I had been crying. I&#8217;m grateful Heavenly Father gave us the courage to take our trip to Utah even though it would put a major strain on our finances.  I knew it would work out somehow.  We realized with the trading of schedules he did,  my husband will be working on-call twice within a month, which will provide a lot of overtime.  I&#8217;m glad I thought to take a picture of each one of the kids with their grandparents before we left and one of my husband with them.  How wonderful that he got to have some bonding experiences with his dad to remember.  I&#8217;m praying to accept whatever the outcome will be and for his whole family.  He is a great source of strength, love, and wisdom for all of us.  It was the way he treated his wife that convinced me that my husband would treat me well if I married him.  After over 30 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mt. Nebo Family Reunion</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonbloggers.com/236481/mt-nebo-family-reunion</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MormonBloggers Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Reunions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funny Stories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just got back from Utah last night.  It was fun, long, and exhausting. Our trip there went rather smoothly, for the most part.  Our van has trouble going uphill, so that was the most frustrating part on the way.  Once we arrived, we spent a few days resting and then headed to our reunion at Mt. Nebo.  Here is when it becomes almost comical (for anyone not involved): My brother-in-law who spent the last year planning this reunion &#8211; when we arrived at camp, he was there for about 10 minutes until he had to take his pregnant wife home.  She was sick from a combination of the altitude and her usual morning sickness.  Add to that the fact that the bathrooms were locked, it just wasn&#8217;t very appealing to continue to be sick in the outdoors. The following morning, my son woke up feeling dizzy, his head hurt, and then he threw-up at least 5 times.  Then he suddenly perked up.  We think he was also affected by the altitude.  We live at 30 feet above sea level.  9,000 feet is a rather big difference for us. Later that day, my brother-in-law and his wife came back.  We were happy to see them and we all went for a swim. At 2am, my oldest son woke up whimpering, saying he didn&#8217;t feel good.  I took him to the Honey Buckets that had been delivered that morning and as we walked away, he vomited in the bushes.  Just as he stopped, there came my brother-in-law and his wife down the trail again.  They were leaving because she was sick. Around 3am, my son threw-up again in the tent.  Then he yelled, &#8220;UGH!!!!  I MISSED!  COME ON!!!&#8221;  After he described everywhere it went, my sister-in-law in the next tent over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting the Sick and the Afflicted</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonbloggers.com/232760/visiting-the-sick-and-the-afflicted-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compassion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My children had a very powerful experience this week.  They learned what it is like to visit the elderly and how much it means to them.  It started with a long overdue visit to my husband&#8217;s grandmother.  He hasn&#8217;t seen her since his grandpa&#8217;s funeral 8 years ago and it was one of our main priorities during our trip to Utah.  It&#8217;s very unlikely he will see her again before she passes away. I was pleasantly surprised that she still remembered some details about me and she also has her sense of humor still.  Being the stubborn woman she is, she has had several bad falls recently because she didn&#8217;t want to ask for help.  She had a bracelet on that said &#8220;fall risk&#8221;.   I couldn&#8217;t quite tell what it said.  I asked if it said &#8220;small risk&#8221;.  She laughed and explained what it said.  Then my 7-year-old said, &#8220;I thought it said &#8216;all risk&#8217;.&#8221;  That got her laughing pretty hard. It was a very special moment when our 1-year-old daughter leaned down to let her great grandmother give her a kiss as if she already knew her and it made her day.  But it made the biggest impact on my kids as we walked through the rest of the nursing home.  Multiple people begged for them to come over and visit.  One lady couldn&#8217;t speak, but she held my daughter&#8217;s hand for the longest time and lit up as she smiled at her.  Then she reached out to grab two of my sons, hug them, and kissed them on the cheek over and over.  It was a little overwhelming for them, but I explained that the people there hardly had anyone to visit with anymore, that their grandchildren rarely came to see them, and they were past the years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Honest Mechanic</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonbloggers.com/227878/our-honest-mechanic</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MormonBloggers Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Praise]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am amazed by the honesty of our mechanic.  There are times he could easily take advantage of us, but he doesn&#8217;t.  I was somewhat sure that our van needed new brakes before going to Utah, but it didn&#8217;t according to him. The check engine light was on because an intake valve was sticking.  To correct this problem, it would probably take a lot of labor adding up to around $500.  He could have told me it would damage the engine.  I wouldn&#8217;t know.  But he told me to head to Costco and pick up a box of fuel treatment made by Chevron to see if that would clear up the problem.  It started to run a little better and the light turned off, then it turned back on.  He still said that it wasn&#8217;t affecting the engine.  We should be fine to drive to Utah. I thought we were due for a transmission service.  Again, no.  He said it had been done recently enough. After weeks of agonizing over how much all of our repairs would cost us, I picked up the van and paid $30 for an oil change and road inspection!  Can you believe it? It&#8217;s a far cry from the time we visited a shop I will not name and they were trying to convince us we would be facing certain death if the tires and brakes weren&#8217;t replaced immediately, plus some other repairs I don&#8217;t even remember.  Another shop lied about a belt needing to be replaced.  A second opinion revealed that it didn&#8217;t.  It wasn&#8217;t cracked at all. Because of this man&#8217;s honesty, he has more business than he can handle, so he is opening a shop at a second location  I refer everyone to him.  I&#8217;m so grateful he is wise enough to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acting on Faith</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonbloggers.com/225104/acting-on-faith</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MormonBloggers Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Budgeting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Salt Lake City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been over three years since my husband has seen his family in Utah.  We have been married almost 14 years and I miss them a lot too.  They haven&#8217;t met our daughter yet and our sons barely know them.  His parents are aging and suffering more health problems, but there always seems to be something standing in our way of going to see them: A canceled trip due to severe illness A job change, leaving us with no vacation Too late into a pregnancy Cost of gas was too high &#8211; $4 a gallon Right now we have all sorts of reasons why we could choose not to go.  Gas is still rather expensive, we&#8217;re making less money than we were before, the van will need new tires immediately and possibly some expensive repairs, and with us being gone for so long, my husband won&#8217;t make any overtime, so it will be very difficult to pay our bills when we get home.  At the same time, we are trying to save what&#8217;s left of our tax return so we can move out of our apartment into the bigger home we need. But I feel pressed to take this trip anyway.  We don&#8217;t know what might stop future trips or with my father-in-law&#8217;s health problems, if we will get to see him again.  My husband&#8217;s Grandma&#8217;s health is rapidly declining and we&#8217;re pretty positive this will be his last time visiting her.  How could we deprive our children of the chance to meet her?  Our oldest saw her once when he was 2.  How could we rob them of the opportunity to have their own special bonding time with their grandparents?  For the first time, we&#8217;re not going to have the entire family there for our whole stay.  I can&#8217;t wait [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love Letters</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonbloggers.com/222415/love-letters</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Thomas S. Monson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m grateful that my husband and I have kept the romance alive through our 13 years of marriage.  Sometimes that romance is expressed through cards on special occasions or letters.  Before we had children, I don’t think we thought about the possibility of our future offspring finding our declarations of love to each other.  We have toned it down over time and hidden them, but that didn’t prevent the awkward moment that happened tonight.  Our son had questions about one particular word used in a card he found and his brother said, “That means ‘smooching’.”  He was under the impression that the word in question was a bad word, but it’s not.  So our six-year-old said, “Oh, then you shouldn’t mind me saying it.”  He repeated it over and over.  Hmmm.  How to teach him that it’s not “bad”, but at same time let him know that it’s not appropriate to say it everywhere he goes?  I would write it here, but I’m afraid it would attract all sorts of undesirable spammers.  I flashed back to a regional conference when President Monson spoke to us – before he was president of the church. I was used to the way he spoke in General Conference, but he was a little more candid during this meeting.  I was already laughing hard about the time he went grocery shopping after many of years of his wife being the one to do so.  His potatoes kept falling out the holes where children’s legs go when riding in the cart.  Someone finally had to show him how to solve the problem.  I laughed even harder when he talked about his grandchildren, one of them asking if they could read the letters between him and Grandma.  He said, “Not all of them!”  I was momentarily surprised, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Doll</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonbloggers.com/210369/new-york-doll</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard about this documentary called &#8220;New York Doll&#8221; for quite some time now.Â  All I knew is that it was about a rock star who was LDS and that is had a lot of Morrissey.Â  It containedÂ two of my favorite things, so it&#8217;s surprising that it took me this long to watch it.Â  I almost bought it, but decided I better save my money.Â  After it remained on my Netflix queue for a couple months and movies were bumped to the top for my kids multiple times, I finally decided it was time to watch this movie. I loved it. For those who don&#8217;t want any spoilers, to put it simply, this movie is about a man named Arthur Kane who was in an obscure rock band called &#8220;New York Dolls&#8221;.Â Â It had a lot of potential to make it big, but was plagued by problems with booze, drugs, and death (caused by drugs and booze).Â  After hitting rock bottom, Arthur was led to the Mormon Church and converted, but he still lived with this sadness that he didn&#8217;t find the success he wanted, although many musicians acknowledged how influential his band was during the short time they were together. After many years of talking about those days, hoping for his band to get back together, a popular singer named Morrissey (also the lead singer of &#8220;The Smiths&#8221;)Â presented the opportunity for a reunion in London.Â  It is fascinating seeing the way Arthur&#8217;s life was transformed and the lessons heÂ learned, but I had no idea it would end the way it did.Â  If you haven&#8217;t seen this film, I highly recommend it.Â  Now for some spoilers. *SPOILER ALERT* If you don&#8217;t like spoilers, don&#8217;t read on.Â  I just have to express what I loved most about &#8220;New York Doll&#8221;. Arthur [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Date with My Son</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I attended a two hour long grade school talent show with my 7-year-old.  Correction:  It was actually two hours and 20 minutes.  Not that I was looking at the clock constantly or counting how many acts were left out of the 33 total acts. There were some that truly were amazing, such as the 1st grader who I&#8217;m pretty sure plays the piano better than I do (and I&#8217;ve  been playing since I was 5).  But most of the acts were tone deaf or nearly tone deaf children singing along with CD&#8217;s.  Last year when my kids were performing, I made my mom come and when she heard one of the particularly awful songs, she leaned over and whispered to me, &#8220;If you sang like that, I would have drowned you.&#8221;  I think it was the unrecognizable Hannah Montana impersonation. My son danced with his class (to Greased Lightning, which was pretty entertaining) and I was accompanying a young girl who sang &#8220;Somewhere Over the Rainbow&#8221;.  She did a lovely job.  Anyway, my point?  After sitting through what felt like a long episode of the beginning stages of American Idol, only not quite as amusing, I decided that my son and I deserved a trip to Baskin Robbins.  We had fun talking about which parts were our favorites, but I also asked him what he hoped to do when school got out.  I was expecting him to say that he wanted to play Xbox, or go to the Great Wolf Lodge, watch movies, etc.   I was so pleased when he said, &#8220;Spend time with family.&#8221; I said, &#8220;School gets out this Wednesday and it&#8217;s a half day.  Is there anything special you want to do?&#8221;  He said, &#8220;Oh, it gets out that soon?&#8221;  &#8220;Yes.&#8221;  &#8220;Then I&#8217;ll get to [...]]]></description>
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