Beyoutifulhomemaker

"Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God"                                                     D&C 88:119 When I was growing up I remember my dad always saying..."a place for everything and everything in it's place." It used to bug me as a kid but now I understand how awesome it is to have my place in order.  It only took me almost four years after being married and living on my own to have my home completely set up. In each place I have I usually have a dumping room. In the place I'm in now we have 3 bedrooms and I used on of the bedrooms (aka our home office) as a dumping ground for everything I didn't know what to do with. It did not make me happy and we couldn't use our office as ...

I want to share something simple I've been doing that has made a huge difference in my life! I learned a technique a while back to help me stay in charge of my thoughts, emotions and actions. I feel more able to change and become a better mom, wife and all around person. I feel less reactive to challenges that happen around me and more able to overcome them. Almost every morning and evening...I'm practicing and sometimes forget...I say declarations.  A declaration is a positive "I am'" power statement. I know it sound a little weird to say positive I am statements about yourself, but what i have realized is that growing up there were declarations all around me. I was taught from a young age that I am a child of God. Knowing all my life that I have a loving Heavenly Father has given me great power all throughout my life and a knowledge of my identity. It has directed me in the way I think and act. That is the power that a declarations...

There is something about homemade canned peaches that makes me happy. I love the cute mason jars and the color of the peaches. They just look like little bottles of sunshine and they taste amazing! My grandma and grandpa Fowers came to visit us this week and they brought yummy peaches from their tree. My grandma also gave me a jar lifter. She asked me if I had a tall pot to process the peaches in because the water has to cover the jar and I said no, but that I could go look at the DI some time and get one. She asked how close the DI was and when I told her it was just down the street she said "let's go!" We found a tall pot for $5.00 and she bought it for me. She told me the peaches needed to get done the next day, so I got to work! I am so grateful she brought me the peaches because canning is a skill I want to learn, but I needed some help to get started. Thanks grandma! I have canned peaches with my mom before but this was my first time doing it by myself....wel...

A few days ago, I pulled my baby in my bed after she woke up from her nap and laid down with her. We had a rare moment where we were both still together. Usually when Oaklee lays down with me, she digs her fingers into my mouth or nose and pulls my hair. This time she put her hand softly on my face and for a little moment we looked into each others eyes. I could feel her sweet, pure spirit and this quote came into my mind.  "When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesn't stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunderbolts. Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mother's heart, and she puts it in the baby's mind. And then God waits. The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies."                  ...

Hello! I'm Cheryl... a passionate wife, mom, homemaker, singer, mormon, and seeker of good things. My purpose in creating this blog is to share "small and simple things" that make a big impact in my life as a wife and mom who is striving to create a strong, happy home by first creating a strong, happy me.  My dream as a little girl was always to grow up, get married, and become a mommy. Now I am living my dream and loving it! I'm learning though that loving my "job" as a homemaker takes a little work. Often times outside influences try to say that creating a home is not important, exciting, or "big." A quote that I love by Bonnie L. Oscarson says it perfectly... "We need to take a term which is sometimes spoken of with derision and elevate it. It is the term homemaker. All of us—women, men, youth, and children, single or married—can work at being homemakers. We should “make our homes' places of order, refuge, holiness, and s...