Just found this picture on my camera, which must have been taken by one of my lovely girls. So many witty things I could say here, but I'm just gonna leave this one alone.
I don't think any of our Barbies have ever worn clothes from the day they come out of the box. We have a nude beach at our house. It bugs Shawn so much I have pictures of him dressing the barbies in Chloe's scrapbook.
Hello I am a previous student of your husbands. A couple of months ago in a Sunday school class the teacher asked us to think of a teacher we have/had that was a positive influence. Immediately I thought of Mr. Ellefsen. He was always so funny. He made me laugh at a time in my life when life was rough, you see I grew up in a family that wasn’t the predominate religion, in fact they often spoke badly of LDS members and painted a bad picture for me (mormons were crooks, liars, rude. They didn’t like anyone that wasn’t like them and they didn’t befriend outsiders). I of course listened to my parents and believed much of what they told me. Mr. Ellefsen proved to be quite the opposite of these things ( I realize he was a teacher and had to be considerate and nice to all students no matter what but I still knew he was not the things my parents had described to me). I remember one time when I was having a particularly bad day, that day Mr. Ellefsen wrote on one of my papers, “remember who you are and what you stand for” I don’t know why he wrote it or what made him write it but it had stuck with me forever since then—it has been my moto in life for many years-- and it made me feel good on that day. To make a long story short after thinking of him--when asked who my most influential teacher was—and the positive influence he had on me in a tough time I had to find a way to get a hold of him and thank him. So thank you Mr. Ellefsen! I am now a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and have a family of my own and hanging above our front door is the quote “remember who you are and what you stand for”!! -McCall bringingupboy.wordpress.com
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I don't think any of our Barbies have ever worn clothes from the day they come out of the box. We have a nude beach at our house. It bugs Shawn so much I have pictures of him dressing the barbies in Chloe's scrapbook.
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I am a previous student of your husbands. A couple of months ago in a Sunday school class the teacher asked us to think of a teacher we have/had that was a positive influence. Immediately I thought of Mr. Ellefsen. He was always so funny. He made me laugh at a time in my life when life was rough, you see I grew up in a family that wasn’t the predominate religion, in fact they often spoke badly of LDS members and painted a bad picture for me (mormons were crooks, liars, rude. They didn’t like anyone that wasn’t like them and they didn’t befriend outsiders). I of course listened to my parents and believed much of what they told me. Mr. Ellefsen proved to be quite the opposite of these things ( I realize he was a teacher and had to be considerate and nice to all students no matter what but I still knew he was not the things my parents had described to me). I remember one time when I was having a particularly bad day, that day Mr. Ellefsen wrote on one of my papers, “remember who you are and what you stand for” I don’t know why he wrote it or what made him write it but it had stuck with me forever since then—it has been my moto in life for many years-- and it made me feel good on that day. To make a long story short after thinking of him--when asked who my most influential teacher was—and the positive influence he had on me in a tough time I had to find a way to get a hold of him and thank him. So thank you Mr. Ellefsen! I am now a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and have a family of my own and hanging above our front door is the quote “remember who you are and what you stand for”!!
-McCall
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