July 2013 – Kristyn Morgan

The Piano Blues

As I’m sitting here typing this I’m listening to my son, McKay (who is 16) play a beautiful piece on the piano–a medley of “Joseph Smith’s First Prayer” and “Praise to the Man.” I am not gonna lie–it makes me proud. Proud and glad that we made our kids take piano lessons for all thoseContinue reading “The Piano Blues”

Harmony=Tacos?

Progress Report #2: At this point I’d like to tell you that I am seeing notable progress in the cleaning department here at the Morgans. Except I can’t. Because we aren’t. One of the great things here at the Morgan house is that we generally are a pretty happy bunch. We’ve been blessed with harmonyContinue reading “Harmony=Tacos?”

"All I want is a domesticated raccoon, two river otters and a non-nocturnal owl."

For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of meeting my children, I’ll let you in on a little secret: they’re sort of hilarious. Seriously–they are way wittier than me which is the Dave Morgan gene in action. Last night we were discussing the “no pet” policy we have here at the Morgan house.Continue reading “"All I want is a domesticated raccoon, two river otters and a non-nocturnal owl."”

"Keep your wind out of my sails!"

I read a book a while ago that I may or may not have mentioned in a previous post. (It is well established that I am lazy so even though I could take time to go back and check, I’m not going to. After all, I’ve probably either scared everyone off or bored them toContinue reading “"Keep your wind out of my sails!"”

"It's cheaper than a therapist."

In our quest to teach our children resilience and self reliance I find it’s a constant balancing act. I’ve mentioned before that I hadn’t realized how much “hovering” I did as a parent. Let me tell you folks, I hovered. So now, I feel in some ways that I’m in parenting 101. In fact IContinue reading “"It's cheaper than a therapist."”