Margaret Mann Foutz Lately, I’ve been getting the encouragement to learn more about my family history from several angles.  I taught a lesson on genealogy to my Sunday school class two weeks ago. The visiting teaching message this month was on family history work.  After our dress rehearsal for “The Messiah” a couple of weeks…

I’ve decided winter is best experienced from inside!

This weekend I sang in two different performances of “The Messiah.” One with Harvest Presbyterian Church in Medina and another with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Westlake. I thoroughly enjoyed each performance. The second was particularly special, however, because I was given the chance to sing two of my favorite arias…

It started about a month ago. I was sitting cross-legged on a chair, when my brother, sitting across from me, with a little smirk said, “Um, you need to pull down your shirt.”  “What? I don’t see anything.” But a quick feel revealed, sure enough, an inch of my belly was revealed, I just couldn’t…

Christ said: “Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me.” (Mark 9:37.) The image of the Christ child has had even more significance this Christmas as I prepare for my own little babe. The thought that Mary had the same “stirrings” within her, that she feared the delivery in the same…

A friend told me to never have a summer baby. I hadn’t really thought I was struggling with the pregnancy over heating until the last few weeks. I discovered it like this: first, I went to the opera, where the hall was heated, I wore a thin wool sweater, about thirty minutes in I was…

Yesterday was my students’ Winter Voice Recital. It was a wonderful event. I was proud of each of them for facing their nerves and performing. (Five were unable to participate.) It’s always interesting to be on the flip side of performances. Instead of being nervous all day, I was excited and prayerful for my students.…

For Family Home Evening on Monday, Tom and I went and picked out our first ‘real’ Christmas tree. (Two years ago, we used a tree that we had cut out of our yard. It was your typical charlie Brown variety. You can see it here.) Needless to say this is a huge upgrade. We were…