Hello! Hope you are having a blessed Sabbath. Just thought I’d pop in to announce the two winners of Katherine Nelson’s Born Brave CD. The randomly chosen winner from the comments is and Rafflecopter chose Jackie S. as the other winner. Jackie I have e-mailed you so please check your spam folder if you don’t […]

The winner of Jenny Oaks Baker’s new Christmas CD NOEL is . . . . Megan who blogs at Tales of a Hobby Hopper! Congrats, Megan! Please e-mail me at chocolateonmycranium {at} live {dot} com to claim your prize. © 2007-2012 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved © 2007-2013 Chocolate on my Cranium, […]

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 […]

Tomorrow is the first day of this year’s celebration on The Family: A Proclamation to the World! We’ve got a lot of guest bloggers lined up and even a few giveaways {the prizes are terrific, I promise!}. By we I mean Jocelyn of We Talk of Christ,  Stephanie of Diapers & Divinity and Middle-aged Mormon […]

The images for the 1940 Census were released on Monday. And we couldn’t be more excited! We have been busy indexing records for the first states available. {Scroll over the images to see where our ancestors are listed and who they are} But even better we have searched through the images and found my husband’s […]

Are there stories from your family history that get passed down from generation to generation? Do you know your family history? Where did your ancestors come from? Me? I’m a mixed breed. I have Spanish, Mexican, English, and Welsh blood running through my veins. Add in my husband’s ancestors and my children also have Scottish […]

Today while I was cooking dinner {paninis on the special panini grill} I imagined what it would have been  like to cook for a family in the 1940s. Here’s a comparison between now and then: Now – I grabbed my sandwich fixings from my TWO refrigerators {enough to house plenty of food for our family […]

Just a friendly reminder that we are gathering video submissions from men, women, and children throughout the world reading parts of The Family: A Proclamation to the World and then splicing them together to create a video about the Proclamation! We welcome submissions in your native language and Sign Language. Read more {and see a […]

Remember Wordfull Wednesday’s topic is to share a typical day with us! So if you haven’t done so, keep track tomorrow of what your day is like so you’ll be ready for Wednesday’s blog link up! The linky will be open for over a week though so you have plenty of time to get to […]

Did you know this is the time of year I do most of my Christmas shopping? I try to be done by November 1st so we can all enjoy the holiday season more. We usually like to gift hand-made items, either ones we’ve done ourselves or buy through etsy. But sometimes there are certain products […]

  You already knew that though, right? This past Sunday little Ganache was blessed. (For those not of the LDS faith, a baby blessing is similar to a christening in that it is a naming ceremony but there is no baptism. We don’t believe in infant baptism, rather our children are baptized when they reach […]