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"A Valentine for Mother "
by Kathryn E. Franks, Remarkable Stories from the Lives of Latter-day Saint Women, vol. 2, 89-92.
 I must have been nine or ten, and I remember a February storm had just left the world outside snowy white. On the trees and fences the snow had drifted in unusual designs. In my own small bedroom the radiator hissed out in jerky sputters.
I was hiding in my bedroom, working on a fancy valentine for my mother. I had heavy red paper, real lace, white paper doilies, red ribbon, and a wonderful idea for Mother's valentine. I was the eldest, and it was important to me that mine would be the prettiest one my mother would receive.
The red heart was cut and the white lace nearly around the edge when my little sister Sara, who was four, came skipping into my room. She was trying to cut valentines from a make-it-yourself book.
"Oooh," Sara exclaimed when she saw what I was doing. "That is going to be beautiful! May I have some of your lace? I'm making a valentine for Mother too.
"No," I answered. "I'm busy. Don't bother me."
Sara looked disappointed. She stepped back. Without saying anything, she left the room.
After all, I remember thinking, if I give her all my ideas, her valentine will be as nice as mine.
Another few inches of lace were pasted around the heart when my younger brother Billy came bursting into my room. He had come home from school. "Look, sis," he said eagerly, "we're making these valentine nut cups for our mothers. I goofed. Mine are all messed up. Will you help me fix them?"
I knew then that if they were finished correctly they would be darling. They would make my valentine look pretty simple! "No," I scolded, tossing the cups at him. "I'm not going to have time to finish my own."
"All right," Billy said, "I'll take some of this lace and fix them myself."
>> Read the rest of the story here
Health Tip #3
by Melanie Douglass, R.D., CPT, author Tip-a-Day Guide for Healthy Living
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Keep sweet treats and salty snacks out of sight today. But just to clarify: these are not forbidden foods. Rather they are “occasional” foods that turn into “everyday” foods when they’re sitting in plain sight, tempting us day after day. So place these types of foods in the highest cupboard—like the one high above fridge. If you have to actually grab a chair to reach a certain snack food, it will be ridiculously inconvenient to overindulge.
Then open your fridge and move anything that’s a sweet or salty snack to the very back, making it hard to reach and out of sight. Remove any candy dishes or bags of treats from your sight. The simple rule of “out of sight, out of mind” means you can still enjoy those snack foods once in a while (as you should!) but not multiple times every day.
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