The school year is almost over for us. I’m totally in my end-of-year school mom phase which means I am done packing lunches, done nagging about homework, and done waking up early. Every year at about this time I start to seriously wonder if I can really hold on for just three more weeks. I…
Picking a quote from the April 2017 General Conference to take to my sisters for May visiting teaching is the hardest thing for me. There are so many wonderful talks and so many great lessons I personally learned from Conference that it’s really hard to choose! This month, I settled on Elder Holland’s talk, “Songs…
Last April I made these General Conference study bookmarks, and I really enjoyed using them as a way to study the General Conference talks when my Ensign came. I didn’t get around to doing them in October because we were on our sabbatical and everything was a little topsy turvy, but I enjoyed them so…
Resources all moms need for getting through. The Mommy Wars are a funny thing—moms fighting amongst themselves about the best ways to be a mom. Organic or not? Breastfeeding or bottle? Homeschooling or public? It’s kind of exhausting when you get caught up in reading all of the pros and cons to the many different…
Going gluten-free is not usually enough to heal your gut completely. These 4 tips will get you back to healthy gut more quickly! This post is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group® and Hyperbiotics, but all my opinions are my own. When my daughter was diagnosed with Celiac in…
No matter how old your kids are, it’s important for them to have good friends. Here’s how to tell if the friends they have now are influencing your children for good. After my daughter went through a particularly difficult friendship with a girl who turned out to be a bully, I’ve thought a lot about…
The April visiting teaching message is titled Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood. What we are really focusing on this month is temple covenants and the blessings that come with those covenants. My first printable for this month simply highlighted a scripture about the power of the temple endowment (see that printable here: April Visiting…
Looking for cute gifts for your tween daughter? Try some of these ideas! Easter is coming up, and now that my girls aren’t little anymore I’m never sure what to put in their Easter baskets. It’s gotten easier for the older two now that they are full-fledged teenagers, but those tween years are a little…
I am constantly looking for ways to keep my kids on schedule after school. Not because I want to be the military mom who has them on task and has every single minute scheduled, but because I want them to get the important stuff done so that they can have plenty of time for free…
The April 2017 visiting teaching message is about the Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood. The message includes several wonderful quotes, but I admit I was having a hard time choosing which direction to go with my main printable for this month. After reading the quotes several times, I realized that I wanted to focus…
This post is written in partnership with mormon.org as part of the Easter 2017 #PrinceofPeace campaign. To find more peace in your own life, click here to learn more. A few days ago I opened Facebook and the first thing on my feed was a post that tagged my dear friend Marianne. Her sister had…
When my first child was in Kindergarten I started to realize what keeping all of her artwork and school work would mean. Any mother who has had a child go through school knows it, too. It means piles and piles of paper. It’s paper that means something, certainly, but I am a minimalist at heart…