Tornado Relief- Something You Can Do To Make a Difference

This evening I was browsing the blogosphere and came across this post . I hear about disasters like the one in Alabama and always wish that ...

Family Night for Japan

Recently when reading a friend's blog about a project that she was involved in for children in Japan. The Sleepy Time Gal has a friend...

Portraits of the Fallen

I found a link to this short video on my friends blog.  I love stories like this about people using their talents to help others. Take the ...

Food Storage in the News

Several weeks ago (it was the mid multiple funeral period, which is why I didn't post it then) I found a couple of articles that I was ...

Food Storage Friday: Ways that Food Storage Can Simplify Your Holiday

This week I spoke at a local church gathering about how food storage can make your life easier during the holidays. Although I don't fee...

myezdeal: IHOP- All Labor Day Weekend

Here's a heads up on a great deal for IHOP gift certificates in Utah. You can get a $25 gift certificate to IHOP for $15. That's a ...

Be A Hero, Be The Match

Saturday night after being at work for more than 13 hours I hauled my family to the county fair. And no, it's not because I was aching f...

I have a secret...

..but I can't tell yet. I know that's not very fair, but I'm really excited about this. I'll let you know as soon as I am ab...

Ways that Parents Can Reform Healthcare

Yesterday at work I read a short article on ways that parents can reform healthcare. I know that I've mentioned some of these before, bu...

Progress on the Write It Out Project

 Unfortunately, this week has been far busier than anticipated. But I have one journal done and the others cut out. This is how I plan to sp...

The Power of Coupons

I've been debating for awhile whether I should share this, I'm generally not the type who says "ooh, look what I did" (The...

Crafting with a Purpose: The Write It Out Project

Yesterday I came across a service project that sounded so awesome I committed before I thought whether or not I was getting ahead of myself....

"This is the best day of my life."

 Check out this story . The Make A Wish Foundation is so awesome. Just wanted to share.

Fighting Pornography- Start with the Family

As a member of the LDS church, I've been hearing people speak against the evils of pornography for as long as I can remember. So I found...

What To Do With Your Expired Coupons

So I had heard before that expired coupons can be used by military families stationed overseas for 6 months after their expiration date. How...

Help fo Haiti Part 3- Hygiene Kits

In my last post in reference to Haiti I mentioned humanitarian kits. Here's the instructions to make a hygiene kit: Place the following ...

Help for Haiti- Part 2

It is becoming part of my Sunday morning routine. I read about Haiti in the newspaper and I cry like a close friend died.  And I have awful ...

Self-Reliance

"Self-reliance means using all of our blessings Father to care for ourselves and our families and to find solutions for our own problem...

Help for Haiti

I'm copying this straight from a blog that has been pretty helpful for me. For all you facebookers out there it takes a couple clicks to...