The Thoughtful Homemaker

Our lesson today will be about the importance of having a family home evening. We will discuss how to have a more successful Family Home Evening. After the short lesson we will make an assignment wheel. Lds.org has an instant family home evening agenda that you fill in and print out. I hope it all […]

This is a wonderful talk given by Elder David A. Bednar of the LDS church given to BYU Idaho for their CES Fireside. He talks about the dangers of minimizing the use of our bodies and how it can be as dangerous as misusing our body. We minimize our body by living in a […]

I was reading recently about the trend going on for the past twenty or so years of women choosing to have small families as opposed to former generations when women had as many children as possible. It got me to thinking about how many children I wanted when I was young, and how many children […]

Spiritual Challenge: Go to the Temple. I need to go to temple classes and do some baptisms and try to be ready by March.
Service Challenge: Help my grandmother. I will write to her and call her and visit her by February. I would like my kids to sing a song for her and make a […]

I went to a Relief Society Enrichment meeting last night. It was the first time I went to church in about three weeks because of all of our illness. I was really glad to go to the activity because the theme was “Back to Basics”. The basics are the things we learned in Primary and […]

They say that after you do something 15 times it becomes a habit. Scripture reading has become long become a daily habit for me. However, I want to make it a little more challenging for myself and my family.
I read a chapter. Then in my head a ponder over what I just read and try […]

I never said as a child, “When I grow up, I want to be a housewife.” As a child, I dreamed of being a publisher, working at a book company, or being a writer. As a teenager, I wanted to work for the UN as an interpreter. In university, I wanted to be a linguistics […]

I will write a new category “Mormon Housewife”. Since Mitt Romney began his run for president, more people are asking questions about the Mormon religion and lifestyle. I will write about what it is like from the perspective of a Mormon housewife who is not married to a Mormon. I will write about why Mormons […]