The winner of the Dream Big Family Rules Subway Art sign from Landee on Etsy is Karen @ Still Crazy After All These Years. The winner of the $50 gift certificate for a Family Proclamation Photo Book courtesy of VioVio is Carin @ Building Eternity. The winner of the gift certificate for the Family Proclamation […]
Archives for September 2012
Building Righteous Family Traditions: Grandma’s Legacy
“Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, and to teach them to love and serve one another, observe the commandments of God, and be law-abiding citizens wherever they live,” The Family: A Proclamation to the World. Last month was an important […]
Never Check Your Religion at the Door – Defend the Family!
There is no question there is an attack on the family. Just scan the headlines of any news outlet and you’ll find startling evidence of the strategic ways the adversary is trying to destroy this most beautiful and basic of human relationships. “It used to be called illegitimacy. Now it is the new normal. After […]
Why I Love “Wholesome Recreational Activities”
Annette Lyon is a Whitney Award winner, the recipient of Utah’s Best of State medal for fiction and the author of nine novels, a cookbook, and a grammar guide as well as over a hundred magazine articles. She’s a senior editor at Precision Editing Group and a cum laude graduate from BYU with a degree […]
Structuring a Life
Today’s blogger is near and dear to me, my youngest brother, Jonathan. He attended BYU and then obtained his masters at NYU where he majored in Cinema Studies. Now he is working on his PhD. Jon served his mission to Brazil and knows three languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese. He is a man of many […]
Family Proclamation Photo Essay #3 {Blog Hop}
Some of our family photos from this year paired with phrases from The Family: A Proclamation to the World All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. In the premortal realm, […]
The blessing of a body
In the premortal realm, spirit sons and daughters knew and worshipped God as their Eternal Father and accepted His plan by which His children could obtain a physical body and gain earthly experience to progress toward perfection and ultimately realize their divine destiny as heirs of eternal life. The Proclamation says that in the premortal […]
Altered Shirts and Stable Patterns
I dreamed this morning of a man with broad shoulders and a strong jaw. I woke up alone, as I always do. I am single. In my newsreader today a recent story from the Huffington Post proclaimed a “crisis of singles has arrived” among the Latter-day Saints. “More like a Great Depression,” I thought wryly […]
Living Your Love Story
“Mom, so-and-so was wondering about the first time you and dad kissed?” This question was asked amongst comments of “No, I didn’t!” and “It was your idea!” We all laughed {and there might have been a few ‘eeewwww’s} as I recounted that fateful day so long ago. It dawned on me we’d never told that […]
Women Today
I’m Chantelle. Born and bred in the North-East of England, I met my sweetheart in 2007 and was married in September 2009. I am a daughter of God and follower of Christ first and foremost, a Mother to an almost two year old boy, the quintessential bookworm & love homemaking, thrifting, baking and blogging at […]
How The Family: A Proclamation to the World Inspired the LDS Mother’s Almanac and My Life
Janene Baadsgaard has written extensively for over thirty years offering her readers valuable information, insight and humor about life. She is the author of hundreds of newspaper columns and features, magazine articles and over a dozen books. She is a graduate of Brigham Young University in Communications with a journalism emphasis and has taught courses […]
Homosexuality and Compassionate Compromise
Gender is an essential characteristic of individual…eternal identity and purpose. ..We further declare that God has commanded that the sacred powers of procreation are to be employed only between man and woman, lawfully wedded as husband and wife….Marriage between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan. Children are entitled to birth within the […]
Family Proclamation Lapbook {Craft or FHE Blog Hop}
I am so grateful for all the hard work that went into creating today’s post! LeeAnn creates lapbooks to go along with the sharing time themes in Primary. She graciously agreed to create a lapbook about The Family: A Proclamation to the World for our celebration. We like to do lapbooks in our homeschool so […]
Why We Need The Proclamation
Leslie Ann Fry, born in Richmond, California, moved to Winnemucca Nevada in 1974, then to Caldwell Idaho in 1975, back to Winnemucca in 1990. Daughter of two, sister of four, wife of one, mother of two, Relief Society sister of millions! As a family, we enjoy camping, fishing, bird hunting, hiking, (although I don’t look […]
Looking Towards Perfection
Welcome to our third annual Family Proclamation Celebration! The next two weeks will be full of wonderful posts from guest bloggers sharing their thoughts and experiences with the doctrines taught in the Proclamation. We encourage you to join in on the conversation through the comments. Today’s guest blogger is Mormon Guy. He grew up outside […]