Comments on: Order at Home

By: Nicholeen Peck

Nicholeen Peck — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:54:19 +0000

Well said! Thank you!

By: Bookslinger

Bookslinger — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:42:26 +0000

I’m sure people knew what Nicholeen intended, but the way she punctuated this sentence:

When I go out in my backyard and look through my telescope at my friends, the planets and stars, I feel so close to God.

she created a list of three equal things that she looks at through her telescope:

A) her friends,
B) the planets,
C) stars.

My apologies to anyone who misread my joke in my first comment on this thread. Nicholeen sent me a nice email explaining that she finally got the joke about an hour after she deleted the comment because she first thought it was snarky of me accusing her of looking at her friends through a telescope.

Do we have any English teachers or editors who can render that correctly?

I might render it:

When I go out in my backyard and look through my telescope at my friends: the planets and stars, I feel so close to God.

Or:
When I go out in my backyard and look through my telescope at my friends (the planets and stars) I feel so close to God.

Grammar cop out.

By: Nicholeen Peck

Nicholeen Peck — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:53:12 +0000

JA it sounds like I could take some lessons from you about getting the clutter out of the closets and off of the dressers. I am better and spiritual and emotional family order than at keeping the house looking nice. I really don’t know how I made it all the way through 10 days with a camera crew at my house without having the house become it’s usual mess. I was really worried the camera crew would spy some of my untidy areas.

I am also really impressed that you have family meetings. When I was young our family meetings always turned into family fights. Soon we stopped having them. I was so happy to find a new way to have a family meeting so that it can’t turn into a family fight. It was revolutionary to me, and really has changed our home forever.

By: JA Benson

JA Benson — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:51:24 +0000

Chaos is my nemesis. THose that know me will die laughing, me imparting any kind of advice on this topic. You are right Nicoleen, communication is important. We have family meetings too. They are not so much planned out as on a need to have basis. A big help in keeping a house neat is having space to put things in. We finished our basement recently. We now have a mud room with cubbies. No more shoes and backpacks piled by the front door. SO much better! We have a rec room for the kids. All the toys and art station is now out of sight out of mind. Now if I could just get rid of the kitchen and laundry.

By: Geoff B.

Geoff B. — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:55:29 +0000

Naismith, my prediction is that with the prespective of the eternities, you will see order in all of the current chaos. Just because we have limited vision now does not mean that we will always be unable to see the bigger picture, as Heavenly Father does.

By: Naismith

Naismith — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:41:53 +0000

“We feel like there is no better example of how to run a home than the way God runs our world; the current home for His family. ”

How do you explain earthquakes, hurricanes, birth defects?

By: Bill Stebbing

Bill Stebbing — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:16:39 +0000

Order is part of the gospel, church, and space. It makes sense.

By: Geoff B.

Geoff B. — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:06:30 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. Everytime I think about my house becoming chaotic, I hearken back to D&C 93:44, in which the Lord says to Frederick G. Williams, “set in order your own house, for there are many things that are not right in your house.” It seems that we all should learn something from that.

In terms of order, I think about people doing what they should be doing, family prayer, family home evening, going to Church together and also of course teaching good values to your children. And having a clean and orderly house probably plays in there somewhere.