Podcast Episodes

My friend and co-author Heather is living in Jerusalem. I love hearing about her adventures with her family there. She recently shared an experience about how they miraculously got a sofa and then sadly lost the sofa and then miraculously got it back again! It was such a great example of 1/24/50/24/1 that I had […]

I love to teach people that our days/weeks/lives have different levels of joy. Life is 1% amazing… 24% pretty good 50% OK 24% not so great 1% horrible This could be throughout 1 day, or throughout a month, or throughout a year… This is so helpful, because when the bad things happen, I can remember,

Devon is living at home for awhile. He does not enjoy the automatic faucet in the kitchen. I got it for my birthday and I love it. So the frustration of him messing it up (by turning it off and on with the handle) has been a challenge. I thought I needed to love him

Devon moved back home this month. I was spinning in the ideas of: There must be a right way to do this. I don’t want to mess it up like I did last time. What is the right way? How can I figure it out? It was so stressful. I was honestly stuck in this,

Spiritual Languages – Music Social Activism/Acts of Service/Love in Action Communing with Nature/Rocks Solitude/Prayer/Meditation/Pondering Ritual/Symbolism/Traditions/Temple Scripture Study/General Conference Talk Teaching/Learning/ Study Groups Gratitude Movement/Yoga/QiGong Creativity/Journal/Art/Vision Board My Main Spiritual Love Languages Are… What are yours? Music – I definitely learn spiritually through music. I often learn more at choir practice then church. Social Activism/Acts of

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I have been a minivan mom for the last 21 years. I actually loved driving a minivan and have lots of fond memories and stories… Because we moved up into the mountain, I really needed to change to an AWD vehicle and it was hard to do something different. Today I delve deeper into why

I am happy to report I am mothering a high schooler differently this time. My youngest son is 5 years younger than my middle son and as Bryson is doing high school things now, I can see so clearly how I am at least trying to do things differently this time. I recently saw this

Somehow the beginning of the school year seems to create choice drama in our family. Since my boys were little, I have almost always had drama around the start of the school year. I had my boys in a variety of different schools – Private kindergarten for Devon Public School for a few years for

I had to hop in and do a quick summer episode, after I had a cool experience at the firework show last night. 1. I miss doing this weekly podcast and am so excited to be back full time in the fall! But am actually really enjoying working on The Gift of Giving Life Podcast.