Who doesn’t want true happiness in family life? Who doesn’t want a satisfactory and fulfilling marriage? When I was dating my now husband one of the things that kept coming to my mind was the quote from the family proclamation saying: “Happiness in Family Life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the […]
Archives for 2014
A Family That Prays Together Stays Together
“Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, PRAYER, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities.” -The Family: A Proclamation to the World There we are again- In the car ready to go when someone remembers, “Hey, we haven’t said family prayer yet!” On one hand I’m thrilled […]
Working Together As A Family
There’s a joke we like to tell in our family about my nephew. When he was about 5 years old his mom asked him to do some chore and, of course, he complained. Someone asked him if there was anything he disliked more than doing chores. My nephew answered, “Yes . . .jobs!” Jobs were […]
Importance of Having Family Dinners
I grew up with foodie parents before foodie was even a word. In our household, family meals were the rule. My dad was trained as a chef and he unwound from a long day at work (as a computer programmer) by cooking delicious meals. A sign hanging in my parents’ dining room fits their attitude […]
Five Ways to Strengthen Your Family
Welcome to the 5th annual Family Proclamation Celebration! We have an amazing line-up of guest bloggers who have submitted some stellar posts about the basics of family life. Whitney kicks off our celebration today. My name is Whitney. I, along with around 15 other youth, am a digital missionary for the blog smallandsimpletruths.com. We are […]
Women of Faith & Meeting Montse
I have invited a wonderful guest blogger today, Amber, to share a little about a project she and several other women have created called Women of Faith. Anna and Amber came to present their project a little over a week ago to our ward (church congregation) and it was so lovely! I also got to […]
More Photos and a Digital Arts Fairyland
For the county fair I also entered this black and white photo of Cookie playing her guitar. It won a superior ribbon (the best you can do). A also really love these two photos of Cookie. She loves taking guitar lessons and practicing! Her older cousins asked to play for them and they were impressed. I […]
Split Sisters Photo
I thought I’d share a project I created for our county fair in the digital arts category. I took pictures of two of my daughters, Truffle (age 13) and Fudge (age 11), and combined them side by side to create a split sisters photo. Here’s Truffle: Here’s Fudge: Can you tell that it is two […]
Adding stucco to our house
This past year we have ssssslloooowwwlly been making improvements to the outside of our house and building an addition which includes a new kitchen and dining room, laundry room, and school room. Sliding doors were replaced with windows and other older windows were also replaced. Finally all the outside structural improvements were done so last week […]
Come Celebrate Family!
Back in 1988 Thomas S. Monson gave a wonderful talk called “Hallmarks of a Happy Home.” In that address he said, Happy homes come in a variety of appearances. Some feature large families with father, mother, brothers, and sisters living together in a spirit of love. Others consist of a single parent with one or […]
Girls Who Choose God Guest Post
See this book? It is amazing! Any long time reader of my blog knows six of my seven daughters are named after women in the Bible. We wanted to give our daughters names to live up to, role models of righteous women who served God and chose God. We have taught them their stories by […]
Find Names on Your Family Tree with Puzzilla
My husband comes from Mormon pioneer stock. He has at least six generations of members of the church in his family. And since Mormons are BIG into genealogy his family lines go back for 20 or more generations. We believe that families can be sealed together in temples, linked into one big chain. Thanks to […]
Youth #TempleChallenge
Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles has challenged the youth to find a family name and take it to the temple. As part of the challenge they are to take their picture with #templechallenge and post it on social media. Just two weeks ago I showed my daughters how to look […]
3 Chapstick and Lip Balm Recipes
The fall and winter weather can be harsh. Particularly here in the desert where the blowing winds and dry air deliver a double whammy to our skin and lips. To keep our chapped lips at bay our family goes through chapstick and lip balm like, well, almost as fast as I go through a can […]
My Mundane Day
It’s a nice stack of wheat pancakes smothered in maple syrup and butter kind of day. A fold three loads of laundry, wash a sink full of dirty dishes, and scrub the house sort of day. It’s fill the water jug with ice water and take out to dad hauling hay kind of day. Keeping […]
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