The writer reflects on the pressure to be a perfect mom and shares the reality behind the facade. She acknowledges the impossibility of doing it all and emphasizes the importance of prioritizing and forgiving oneself. Inspired by a conference, she finds peace in focusing on essential tasks and encourages other moms to do the same, reassuring them they are doing better than they think.
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Photo credit: Ryan Greenburg via Flickr Several months ago a friend of mine spent a few weeks posting daily on Facebook about a part of her testimony. She called it “How I Became a Mormon”. Although she had grown up in the church she went through and outlined her conversion process. Whether we’re born with […]
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As Father’s Day approached this year I was excited to do something fun with my kids to give to their dad for Father’s Day. I *love* all the little questionnaires that you can find where you ask the kids questions about their mom or dad and then fill in the responses. The answers the kids […]
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I couldn’t find the original source for the featured image to give credit, but I really liked it… if you know the original source PLEASE let me know! I was just talking to Eric today about one of our stories from when we were engaged. We’d just gone out to lunch at a restaurant in […]
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This morning I was curling my hair and getting ready for church and hadn’t realized that my three year old had (as usual) escaped the house. I went outside in my curlers and had this conversation with him on his bike – Me: Danny, I need you to come back inside. I didn’t know you […]
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Featured Photo: Elder Richard G. and Sister Jeanene Scott – Image from LDS Living After General Conference Eric casually added a calendar item on his calendar for a General Conference 40-Day Challenge. The idea behind it is simple. Every day for 40 days there is an assigned talk from this most recent General Conference for […]
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One of my Facebook friends posted a link to this article called A Better Way to Say Sorry. With a two year old and a five year old at home apologizing is something that I find we are doing FREQUENTLY, so I decided to read the article. It was simple, but brilliant! Her intro – […]
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Today I’m featuring a guest post from one of the most amazing women I know – Kerry Anderson. Kerry is a meteorologist and the mother of five children. Oh, and the oldest of those children is me 😉 Growing up I remember being really proud of my mom as a feminist. She graduated with a […]
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Learn about the real St. Patrick instead of leprechauns and rainbows for your St. Patrick’s Day!
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Featured Photo Credit Lavon Maiersperger. Aren’t they cute?? Since having Maeli 6 weeks ago I’ve been frequently asked what it’s like to have 3 kids. This was my day today- Woke up to get Sam ready for school. Laid out all his clothes and then went to get myself ready. Came back 10 minutes later […]
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Featured image: Job Rebuked by His Friends, by William Blake. Image courtesy of Wikipedia This week I read the Book of Job as part of my scripture reading. A few things really impressed me about the book that I wanted to share. The first is that this man, who was known to be a just […]
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This blog post explores the concept of sin as a form of self-inflicted pain, emphasizing the transformative journey from sin to redemption. It redefines commandments as blessings, underscoring the idea that disobedience leads to pain, while obedience and repentance bring joy and healing.
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Ok guys, not to toot my own horn or anything, but the resources that I’m handing off to you in this post are sheer and utter brilliance. There. I said it. TOOT! But seriously, as I was preparing these files to share them I was actually sad that I won’t ever get to really use […]
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This will be a pretty short post, but I wanted to share this. I’m pretty picky about formatting and paper. Mostly, I don’t believe in paper and like to avoid using it whenever possible. But when I do actually print things out I like them to fit nicely on a single piece of paper. So, […]
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Ok, so I’m sorry that this installment doesn’t have any cool downloads associated with it, but this is just a tip that I have for those running the Primary. I hate calling people. Like really, really, really hate it. I always feel like I get flustered or call at the wrong time and they’re eating […]
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On Sunday I was released as the secretary from our ward’s primary presidency. It came as a bit of a surprise since we had thought we were going to be in for three years and were just getting geared up for our third year. But apparently it was our time to go on to other […]
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Lately we’ve been having issues in our family with respecting other people’s personal space and being kind to others. So I decided we needed to have an FHE lesson on respecting our bodies and other people’s bodies. I looked around the internet and didn’t find anything that quite fit what I was looking for so […]
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Today is Mother’s Day and across the world Primary children will be getting up in sacrament meeting to sing a song to their mother’s in honor of the day. In our family we have a joke about my mom’s least favorite Mother’s Day Primary Song – Mother, I Love You. If you’ve never heard this […]
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We’ve all been there. You’ve gone onto Pinterest to pull up a recipe, or get an idea for FHE… and 2 hours later you realize you’re still there, pinning a million ideas that you’ll never get around to doing. Dinner’s still not made, you’re no closer to actually having an FHE lesson prepared and you […]
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If you don’t want to read through my whole explanation of how this FHE lesson came to be, or my personal suggestions for making this a little more special feel free to click here to skip to where you can download the lesson outline and PowerPoint. I won’t be offended. Ok, well I might be offended, […]
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