Rasmania 102

 I am finally starting to feel (almost) normal again.  I'm still congested, but since I'm always congested with allergies, it'll be hard to know when I'm "normal."  This has been a quiet week--especially the weekend.  Friday, Roy took Hyeji and Gunnar ice fishing with him, so I've been alone.  I spent some time with Adrienne's kids on Thursday, and offered to help Nick with his on Friday or Saturday, but he didn't take me up on it.   I came across a quote by President Maxwell in my studies this week, "The strait and narrow path, though clearly marked, is a path, not a freeway nor an escalator.  Indeed there are times when the only way the strait and narrow path can be followed is on one's knees! And we are to help each other along the path."   A Brother offended    I'm grateful for a family that desires to be on the path, and help not only their children, but their siblings also.   This quote got me thinking about prayer.  We all

 President Gordon B Hinkley said, "The family is divine, it was instituted by our Heavenly Father.  It encompasses the most sacred of all relationships.  Only through its organization can the purposes of the Lord be fulfilled."   So many in the world are choosing to move away from this basic and important organization.  Many are choosing to not marry, or not have children.  Some are even choosing same-sex marriage.  Our society is starting to see the effects of such choices. I love our family and I am committed to do what it takes to keep our relationships strong and to keep our family united.   I am so grateful that my children have a desire to marry and have children and to safeguard their families.  In these pictures of our newest grandbabies you can see heaven.   Camden (2 months) Yuli (1 month) This has been a difficult week with having Covid.  Roy thinks he has it too, but he hasn't retested since he tested negative last Wednesday.  All my routines have gone by the

In his letter this week, Philip expressed his displeasure in the political events that happened this past week.  I agree with everything he said, but he said it so well that I decided to just quote him. "I have been particularly irritated by this week’s events in Washington, D.C., encouraged, it appears, by a narcissistic paranoid soon-to-be ex-president.(Today, I am a self-appointed psychologist.) Regardless of all the good he achieved the last four years (summarized by Kimberly A. Strassel of the Wall Street Journal as “The withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and the Iranian deal. The greatest tax simplification and reduction since Reagan. The largest deregulatory effort since – well, ever. Three Supreme Court justices and 54 appellate court judges. Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve. The Jerusalem embassy. Criminal-justice reform. Opportunity zones.”) Of course, many view these accomplishments with horror. But I will say that in my 64 years, I have not seen a

When Elise was here, before Christmas, she brought our attention to a fact in Roy's history that was previously unknown to him.  Great grandma Teeny's (Rasband) maiden name was Mongomery, but as you go back a little, you see that her father and grandfather were both Horrocks.  She wrote the following:       (Father of John Lowery Montgomery)                                                                                      by Teenie M. Rasband   John Horrocks was born April 14, 1821, in Lostock, Lancashire, England.  He was the son of James, born December 1782, and Ann Howarth Horrocks, born August 11, 1796.  He was the second of nine children.  Joseph, born June 17, 1819; John, born April 14, 1821; James, born September 25, 1823; (who died as an infant), the next child, born March 21, 1826; was a boy and they named him James, also [it being a custom of the English to give the baby the same name as the one who had died just before if they were of the same sex].  Ann, born Jan