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Living in the moment is not always easy to do. It seems that we all have a tendency to focus our thoughts on our past mistakes and feel discouraged about them, or we focus our thoughts on a future that we wait to someday have. It seems that we rarely focus on our todays, our [...]
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As I mentioned yesterday we were able to Skype with our son Dalton and it was the happiest day ever. Today Dalton sent an email to our family and his friends and in that letter he shared something that was worth sharing – in fact he even mentions in his email that someone should quote [...]
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Happy Mother’s Day to all of the mothers, future mothers, grandmothers, mothers-in-law, nannies who play second mother, mothers who don’t or can’t have children of their own but who love children and provide mothering in one way or another, and single fathers who have to play the role of mother and father – so basically [...]
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This Sunday will be Mother’s Day, so I wanted to give everyone a reminder a few days early so you can start now picking out a special gift for the Mothers in your life. This is especially a friendly hint to all the husbands out there whose wives are raising your children . Everyone has [...]
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Isn`t it funny how in life we have that room in the house we keep everyone out of in order to save it for that “special occasion”, or the china plates that we only eat from on a “special occasion”, or the towels in the bathroom that can only be used on a “special occasion”. [...]
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A man, whom I have tremendous respect for, shared a poem he wrote himself over the course of many years of his life, starting when he was 68 years old and finishing it at the age of 88. It tells a fantastic message of why we should embrace the process of growing older, as growing [...]
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As those of you who follow my blog know, I try to write each day about the lessons I am learning in my life. Those who know me well know that I also don’t believe in coincidences in life. Rather, I firmly believe that things happen for a reason. So the events of today led [...]
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“The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which; he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others [...]
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Have you ever had the experience of meeting someone for the first time, but having that feeling that you already know them? There is an instant connection and an immediate comfort as if you have known them all your life. You feel totally at ease sharing things with them because there is that sense of [...]
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There is little that I enjoy more than spending quality time with a group of great friends. Today I went to the BYU Founders Board Meeting (Brigham Young University board I serve on). It was a great meeting and I truly joy serving with such amazing board members. All are highly successful people who place integrity and [...]
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow and don’t forget to wear green! Tradition has it that a four leaf clover is the universal symbol for good luck which offers magical protection and wards off bad luck. Some even believe that when holding a four leaf clover you are able to see magical fairies. And who wouldn’t [...]
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“You’re Gonna Miss This” are the lyrics in the chorus of a song that is incredibly impactful by Trace Adkins. The song is about cherishing the moments of our lives as they happen because there will come a day when you will miss those moments greatly. That lesson and message applies to so many areas [...]
Tonight I went with a group of young women who decided to spread a little Valentines love by heart-attacking some of the neighbors front doors. For those of you who don’t know what a heart-attack is, it is when you take a bunch of cute construction paper cut out hearts and stick them all over [...]
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I was married five years ago, but prior to that I was single for ten years, and for every one of those ten years I dreaded Valentine’s Day. It was as if there had been a holiday created just for the purpose of torturing anyone who was single! They may as well have renamed the [...]
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First of all, never let your husband watch morning talk shows with you, unless you are prepared to deal with him when he hears them announce that a recent research study showed that women are most likely to give their man some lovin’ on Thursday nights. All day today I have had to listen to [...]
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So it started like this: I was leaving the house early the other morning in the middle of that terrible snowstorm. The roads were horrendous and it was freezing outside. I had an appointment clear on the other side of town, and then I had to head to the opposite side of town for a [...]
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At the end of a long, stressful day of duties and responsibilities and hard work it can be really hard to disconnect from the office and the stress so that we don’t take it into our homes with us at night. The last thing our families want to deal with is our stress from the [...]
This will be my last blog I write before Christmas as I will be taking Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off next week, and so I want to take this opportunity to wish all of you a Very Merry Christmas! I truly hope all of you have the most amazing Christmas ever, full of love, [...]
As all of you who follow my blog know, today my daughter had surgery to repair her ACL. We had to wake up at 4:30am to be to surgery by 6am. And unfortunately we were up until 1:30am the night before hanging out with my husband’s parents who had been staying with us. Side note, [...]
How true is that quote?!? Now I can’t speak for every single woman out there, but I will go out on a limb and say that it is definitely true that a good majority of we women want our significant others to be able to read our minds. We want them to pick up on [...]
Only 21 days until Christmas! It is hard to believe. This time of year is my very favorite, yet it seems to fly by so quickly each year that I barely am able to appreciate and take in the Christmas spirit. I am beginning to realize that the only way to take control of ENJOYING [...]
Those of you who know me know that I am a huge fan of great motivational speakers and I rely on their quotes and words to help inspire me on the days when I find myself getting down. Zig Ziglar is one of those great motivators who spent the bulk of his life lifting others [...]
Today I attended a roundtable with Speaker of the House John Boehner, Senator Hatch, Candidate Mia Love, and several other key politicians. It was a great discussion and I enjoyed being a part of it. As we draw closer and closer to the upcoming elections I am completely floored and frankly disgusted by the number [...]
Yesterday marked the two year anniversary of the death of my best friend Steve Gasser. Steve was an amazing person. He was kind, and caring, and he was always thinking of others and doing for others. The day he died was one of the hardest days of my life. I didn’t write about him yesterday [...]
This weekend I thought a lot about precious moments in our lives. Isn’t it interesting that we so often don’t relish the moments in life until they have passed? Things like snuggling with our kids, or playing a game with our family, or a kiss with our sweetheart, or laughing on the phone with a [...]
“Crying is how your body speaks when your mouth can’t explain the pain you feel.” The truth is that I am not much of a crier, especially at work. But I have to admit that this week I have cried several times. As excited as I am for my next phase of life, this week [...]
All of us have been hurt before. All of us have experienced being let down and disappointed. We have all had someone we love betray us, some of us in major ways and some of us in smaller ways, but we have all been through the experience of being hurt by someone we care about. [...]
