(this is my dream home… doesn’t it just look fresh out of Papa’s Wife? That’s a book, if you haven’t read it, read it you will love it. It’s a great summer read.)

Sister Julie Beck stated that LDS women should be the best homemakers in the world. Is that true? I hope so. Home can be truly a heaven on earth and we can be heavenmakers when we increase the order, beauty, and nourishment in our homes. It feels good and fun to be a wife and mother when I have the education and nourishment for myself so I can create a happy environment for my family. Do you believe that you and your daughter(s)  have a mission to be wives and mothers in Zion? Do you feel that you have an education to match that mission?

I am starting an online finishing school for LDS women and girls who want to increase their education in the womanly arts of wifing, mothering, homemaking, and relating in feminine ways.  Here is some of the curriculum:

We will be discussing some of the women each month in The Women of the Old Testament book by Camille Fronk Olson. This will give us a great foundation in righteous women from history.

We will also study:

• Eve and the Choice Made In Eden by Beverly Campbell
• home cooking from scratch according to Word of Wisdom and Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon

• The Ultimate Career by Daryl Hoole
• Fascinating Womanhood by Helen Andelin
• Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott
• Dr. Mom tips
• gardening
• home canning and preserving
• knitting, sewing, and crocheting
• grooming, including hairstyles, to look femininely elegant and modest, not frumpy
• etiquette
• hope chest items

and that’s just some of what we will be studying!

My daughter is an expert in pretty hairstyles.

We will be meeting online once a week, usually on Fridays starting June !7 and going to the end of April, taking December off. If you want more information and registration details (cost is $24 a month per household) go to http://treeoflifemothering.ning.com/page/an-online-finishing-school-for

The prophet Joseph F. Smith once said,

“As a rule the mothers in Zion, the mothers of Israel, are the very best women that live in the world, the best that can be found anywhere. … The good influence that a good mother exercises over her children is like leaven cast into the measure of meal, that will leaven the whole lump; and as far as her influence extends, not only to her own children, but to the associates of her children, it is felt, and good is the result accomplished by it.

And, sisters, you do not know how far your influence extends. A mother that is successful in raising a good boy, or girl, to imitate her example and to follow her precepts through life, sows the seeds of virtue, honor and integrity and of righteousness in their hearts that will be felt through all their career in life; and wherever that boy or girl goes, as man or woman, in whatever society they mingle, the good effects of the example of that mother upon them will be felt; and it will never die, because it will extend from them to their children from generation to generation. And especially do we hope for this in the Gospel of Jesus Christ