“You’ll never sing again, said her doctor. But in a story from the very edge of medical possibility, operatic soprano Charity Tillemann-Dick tells a double story of survival — of her body, from a double lung transplant, and of her spirit, fueled by an unwavering will to sing. A powerful story from TEDMED 2010.”
Jenny Hatch
Paul started work yesterday, the boys resumed seminary and school today, and my daughters fly back to Utah on friday.
Ben came up to me yesterday and requested that we begin his second semester of Home Schooled third grade because Dad was going to be busy with work and would not be able to “keep him occupied”. I said that would be fine, and we began again with his simple schedule:
Religion: Scriptures, Faith in God, Scouts
Music: Music Theory, Singing, Piano, Guitar
Math: Saxon 3, Mutiplication Flash Cards, and Saxon 54
Recess/PE
Language Arts: Reading and Writing
Art
Lunch
Computer
Reading/Quiet Time
It has been lovely to have a break and some real help with the cooking and cleaning. My daughters were excited to have the time to do some legitimate cooking, and I was so happy to have their help putting away Christmas and deep cleaning the Living Room.
Highlights from this vacation include the Christmas Day Choir at church where six members of the Hatch Family sang and I sat in the congregation singing along and enjoyed watching my family participate. I have been too ill to sing with any choir this year, too tired to attend rehearsals and church on the same day. ( I did go sing at a nursing home with our ward choir because I knew Rutters For the Beauty of the Earth really well and they needed sopranos who could sing the tricky rhythms. )
We also enjoyed many hours of quiet conversation, a few memorable squabbles, and some time spent giving each other foot and back massages with essential oils. An innumerable number of board games were played and Allison and Jeff went on a few dates and to several parties.
Paul and I went out for lunch and saw War Horse, excellent movie.
We just relaxed and spent most of our time doing whatever we wanted, which translated into several Marathon viewings of 24, seasons 7 and 3 and a Big Bang Theory marathon on New Years. (It is bar none the funniest show I have ever watched, but I am determined to stop watching because it is just not appropriate viewing for Mormons – Waaaaay too much sex).
I love vacations, but I also love a more fixed schedule and a little more structure to our day.
As queen of my castle I have one goal for 2012 and that is to magnify my calling as a Ward Missionary. So if you are someone who is looking for answers to lifes most pressing questions, namely:
Who am I?
Why am I here on Earth?
And, What is going to happen to me when I die?
Please contact me personally using the contact form above.
I would love to share my Faith in Jesus Christ with you.
I’ve done this blogging break thing for just about every year that I have been writing since 2005. It is always a good time to retrench, evaluate, and really consider if this is a project I should spend quality time on.
It takes me three weeks to decompress and decide if I want to continue on once I stop.
Generally I go back and forth trying to decide and am always sorely tempted to delete every word I have ever written on the web, and just move on with my life.
But I feel rested and ready to jump back into the digital pool…
Jenny Hatch with Ben about three hours after his Home Birth
I’ve spent quite a few hours these past few days setting up this magazine, and thought I would share a few goals and outline some facts.
First, I have spent exactly $31.00 setting up this magazine.
I registered two Domains with WordPress at a cost of fifteen bucks each. WWW.BlogMomMag.com and WWW.BloggingMothersMagazine.com. Then I spent a buck, well 99 cents, on I-Tunes purchasing Salme Dahlstroms amazing song Thinking About it….Baby as the theme music for the Radio Show and our You Tubes.
Salme, if you have issues with the magazine using your song as the theme, just email me at bloggingmothersmag@yahoo.com and maybe we could work out a deal…
Thirty one bucks for an online magazine?
How?
Well, add in fifteen years of online chat room street fighting and a smattering of html skill, as well as countless hours spent blogging, learning how to master new media tools like audio, video, and radio, and the willingness to just take a running leap and do a cannon ball into the Digital Pool, and whammo, you have an online magazine for moms.
Almost all online digital sites from WordPress to You Tube are free. Granted many of the sites like Blog Talk Radio and One True Media have premium upgrades, but I did not bother with those services yet.
I’m not a professional writer, editor, or journalist. I am just someone who has spent every spare minute of my life mastering Digital Media these past five years, and…
I’m a Mom with a vision.
I have been highly influenced by my friendship with Leonard Horowitz. Len is a health truth warrior. And I am so supportive of the battles he has engaged in with the Pharma Companies. He understands just what is at stake if we don’t win the war against the death merchants.
This magazine is not a fashion or celebrity rag. It is not intended to entertain or distract. This magazine is for the serious Mother who wants to stand up for Health Freedom and Sovereignty over her own body and the bodies and minds of the children who are entrusted to her care.
If you are a Woman who was coerced into having a C-section, please write your story and it will be published on Blogging Mothers Magazine.
If you are a Mother who has a child who was damaged by Vaccines, please write your story and it will be published on Blogging Mothers Magazine.
If you are a Parent whose child has been forced to take psychiatric meds, please write your story and it will be published on Blogging Mothers Magazine.
If you yourself have been forced to eat psychiatric medications and/or are recovering from a C-section that was coerced or if you know that you have been damaged by vaccines – perhaps you were one of the many Moms who miscarried after getting the H1N1 vaccine – please, write your story and it will be published on Blogging Mothers Magazine.
In Freedom and Truth!
Editor in Chief of Blogging Mothers Magazine
“The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”
–Samuel Johnson
