RELISH YOUR ROLE!!!! I relish the Legacy of Love that I can look to in my parents and grandparents and great-grandparents!! I HOPE each one of us today is passing on (or creating for the FIRST TIME!) a Legacy like that to give to our children and grandchildren, to the world that will follow us. It is more important than anything else. No matter how well a family does at anything or Continue Reading
Day #5 – Strengthening Your Marriage – Laugh Together!
Day #5 - Laugh Together! One of my favorite people in this world, now a grandma, maybe even a great grandma, is constantly bringing laughter and fun to her marriage!! She's an accomplished musician, lives in a charming, poetic place, has a super successful husband, children, and grandchildren, she travels frequently to exciting places to learn and grow and has part of a college named after Continue Reading
Day # 4 to a Stronger Marriage!
Day #4 of the 20 day challenge to strengthen and celebrate your marriage!! The Challenge of Today: Keep Your Spouse at the TOP of your LIST!!! No Matter What. First Priority. #1. The Bible says it this way: " Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife:" (Gen 2:24) Modern day scripture says it like this: "Thou shalt alove thy wife with Continue Reading
DAY #3 in Celebrating and Strengthening Marriage!
Day #3 - Pay attention to the Positive I've found there is this law of 'intention' in my life and the lives of those around me. What I pay attention to grows, gets better, flourishes. Likewise what I forget about, neglect, or turn my back to - well... atrophy. Like what happens to a garden when you neglect it: (I would know, been there done that...) weeds grow like crazy and one is left Continue Reading
Day#2 to Celebrate and Strengthen Your Marriage!! (& Family)
Day #2 - Make Time to Talk Easy right?? That's what I thought sitting with my handsome fiance in the office of the stake president who was giving us advice to follow for the rest of our married lives. He described the different levels of communication: how's the weather? plans feelings needs He suggested that we get to levels 3 & 4 of communicating everyday and spend at least Continue Reading
20 Days to Strengthen and Celebrate Your Marriage (& Family)!!
Good Morning!! It is an exquisitely beautiful one here!! I woke up to a kiss from my Love and the sun streaming through the trees into our home!! The best part is that he said: "Happy 20th!" with the biggest smile ever! No, I am not 20, much older and happier than that- WE are 20!!! Shocking, but true. ;-) Our wedding day still seems so fresh to me! Even first meeting Mike and counting him Continue Reading