Happy New Year!!! It's a brand new year!! I love a fresh start! Last night for Family Home Evening we were reminded we can all change! My husband taught us that if we try to make some huge change we will fail, it won't last, but if we take one small step toward the big change we desire it will be doable and becomes part of who we are. He loves the principle of kaizen from the book "one small step Continue Reading
#12 to Celebrate and Strengthen Your Marriage!
#12 - Get close, REAL CLOSE!!! One of the BEST ways to RELISH and ENRICH your relationship is the one precious way that God commanded be shared only between a husband and wife, legally and lawfully married! WOW! What a WONDER!! And what a GREAT WAY to celebrate your marriage - getting really, REALLY close!! This is the icing on the cake, right? A great marriage relationship, which means a Continue Reading
So Many Children, She Didn’t Know What to Do!
Happy Halloween Friends! Every Halloween is a challenge to come up with "something to wear". Many years we've combined our efforts and come up with a unique "family" costume that is greater than the sum of it's parts! http://youtu.be/57yTdFB2y2w This year we had a blast creating a look quite the opposite to ourselves—we hope!! Hee hee! Though 'there was an old woman who lived in a shoe, Continue Reading
The 11th Challenge to changing (and Celebrating!) your Marriage for Good
Day #11 - LOVE YOUR HONEY MORE THAN MONEY!!! Of course!! We ALL LOVE our spouses more than MONEY!!!!! Unheard of to think otherwise??? But do our actions SHOW this?? I recently read that fights about money are most likely to lead to divorce and that money is the #1 named cause of divorce in our country. From the July 23rd, 2013 issue of the Deseret News: The study, "Examining the Continue Reading
#10 to Enriching your Marriage – ROMANCE!!
I made romance #10 because it is a 10 in my book!! The icing on the cake!! I love romance! The whole WORLD loves romance!! That amazing thing called LOVE that blossoms between a man and a woman that just seem MADE for each other- "oh! It's soooo romantic!" We ALL love romance! And rightly so, it is beautiful - and we ALWAYS hope in our heart or hearts that the romance we see is REAL, we ALWAYS Continue Reading
Day #9 to Strengthening (and CELEBRATING) Your Marriage!
Day #9- Enlarge your heart for parenting! WHAT does THIS have to do with marriage you ask??? Did you know that the #1 predictor of marriage success (as learned from my family and human development classes in college) is DESIRE FOR CHILDREN? Out of any other aspect of marriage studied or researched, rated, or relied upon to predict the future success of a marriage, it is a couple's desire Continue Reading