Dancing with Daffodils

I teach piano lessons to a few friends and neighbor kids and have recently started teaching my own kids. Lily has been taking for about a year now but her progress is slow because I am both her mom and her teacher. I don't have a set lesson time for her so we fit it in when we can, which means it can sometimes be three weeks before another lesson. I find it difficult to teach her and we've had some serious downs with very few ups lately when it comes to helping her practice and give her lessons. A few weeks ago we had a particularly bad argument that resulted in her crying and me ready to walk out the door. I told my husband I was done and that if she wanted to take piano we were going to have to find someone else to teach her. He was so calm and went on to tell me how important it is to him that our kids play the piano so he said he would take over as the practice parent, allowing me to just be her teacher.  I fell in love with him again during that conversation because he u...

Today I was able to attend a special meeting at church for all the women. In it we discussed our responsibilities regarding a program in our church called visiting teaching. I love this program and know it is inspired by God. It is called visiting teaching because we visit one another and teach the gospel to each other on a one-by-one basis, just as the Savior did. Each woman over 18 is assigned a companion and then two or three or four other ladies in our congregation to visit on a monthly basis. This is not always an easy responsibility. Some of these ladies we're asked to visit are not very welcoming, active in our church or open to gospel discussion. We're all mothers and wives and busy with life. Or we're shy or we're scared or we're hampered down by any number of other challenges. We discussed those difficulties today in an effort to figure out what is holding us back from doing a better job of fulfilling this assignment. I kept my mouth shut most of the t...