The Wilhelmsen Botanical Blog

I just finished The Alchemyst by Michael Scott and plan to read the entire series. I highly recommend you pick up this book

Next on the docket is Potty Training 1-2-3 by Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo.

And They Were Not Ashamed by Laura M. Brotherson

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

-Sir James M. Barrie

There is nothing more vital to our success and our happiness here than learning to hear the voice of the Spirit. It is the Spirit who reveals to us our identity, which isn't just who we are but who we have always been. And when we know that, our lives take on a sense of purpose so compelling that we can never be the same again.

-Sherri Dew in "Saying it like it is."

Man can not degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he can not elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.

-Alexander Walker, in "Elbert Hubbard’s Scrap Book"

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

-President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all. Their goal is to prepare a rising generation of children who will take the gospel of Jesus Christ into the entire world. Their goal is to prepare future fathers and mothers who will be builders of the Lord’s kingdom for the next 50 years. That is influence; that is power.

Julie B. Beck, “Mothers Who Know,” Oct.2007