As I was playing on Pinterest a few months ago I came across an idea for a Family Home Evening lesson using Angry Birds as a way to teach children to control their emotions. Since I have little children and a smartphone, Angry Birds is obviously something that gets played A LOT in our household …
2012 Primary Theme Printables
For those of you who might not know, I’m currently in the primary presidency of our ward. I’ve been emailing out printables to the parents of our primary children each month that have the theme and scripture for the month that they can print out and hang in their homes. Our biggest goal as a …
Mint.com
My dad is a CPA, as such he taught me early on the importance of tracking your spending and reconciling all of your credit card statements etc. He and my mom always used Quicken to track all of their spending. I remember every month when my mom would get have to go through and make …
Leftover Awareness Month
So I got this idea when I used to follow the $5 dinner blog. Every so often I have what I call “Leftover Awareness Month” (she calls it “Pantry Challenge”). Basically the idea is for a month (although sometimes just a week) I try to eat only what we have in the house and go …
Amazon Mom
[iframe src=”http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=haifamblo-20&o=1&p=13&l=ur1&category=baby&banner=1KKKKDC3NCGCQVXX6RR2&f=ifr” frameborder=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ scrolling=”no” width=”468″ height=”60″] Last night we had a little baby shower for my niece (yes, somehow I’m old enough to have a niece old enough to be a mom, weird huh?). While we were there I let her in on the secret of Amazon Mom. One of my sisters-in-law was so sad …
Smarter, not harder
So I’ve been meaning for a long time to write posts about things that I use in my life to make it easier/cheaper/healthier or in any way better. I finally have come up with a list of things to write about that’s so long that I could have a weekly post for 3 months before …
Technology and Gospel Study
I’m giving a presentation tonight in Relief Society about how we can use technology to enhance our studies of the scriptures. While preparing for this I came across a TON of awesome resources that I think could benefit anyone trying to get more out of their scripture study, or even just finding time to do …
Paying Tithing Online
If you’re like me then you have no doubt run into problems with remembering to pay your tithing when money comes in. It’s not that I don’t like paying tithing, or that I’m being grudging about it, I’m just not used to having to write checks. Tithing is pretty much the only check I write …