N is for Nutrition: How to Eat Healthier
When my husband and I were both working full time, our meals consisted of a lot of prepackaged foods. Canned soups, frozen pizza, hashbrowns, mac n cheese, cereal etc. I didn't have a lot of recipes under my belt and didn't enjoy cooking (still not my favorite thing...
M is for Memories and Blessings of 2013
I spent some time reflecting on the past year as I made my Life Plan for 2014Â and our sermon yesterday was a review of some of the congregations blessings over the past year. I've had "Count Your Blessings" stuck in my head all day. So here are some of my favorite...
Life Plan: 2014
The best goal setting book I have ever read is The Power of Focus: What the World's Greatest Achievers Know about The Secret to Financial Freedom & Success, by Les Hewitt, Mark Victor Hanson, and Jack Canfield. I have been using the outline in that book for my...
I is for Infatuated With My Newborn
In my "blogging through the alphabet series," I didn't get my "H" post up last week. I have about two thirds of it written but never got it finished. I've been busy. Busy doing nothing. Or, to be more precise, busy doing the most important thing in the world:...
G is for Increasing Gentleness Toward My Children
One of our household mantras go like this: How do we behave? Polite and Gentle and show each other Love. We first started this when my oldest was learning how to properly pronounce an "L." It encouraged him to repeat words with the "L" at the beginning, middle, and...
F is for Fatigue: How to Survive on Interrupted Sleep
Many cultures don’t ever question night wakings the way that North America does. They expect kids to be waking during the night until after age three! But in all of the parenting and breastfeeding support forums and groups that I am a part of, the number one subject...