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Today I am spotlighting a legend in the world of women who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Daryl Hoole. I have a lot of her books that I have happily picked up from thrift stores: The Joy of Homemaking, the Art of Homemaking, and The Art of Teaching Children, among others. I checked out some cassette tapes of one of her seminars years ago when I was a young mother from the Orem Public Library. Listening to those tapes over and over as I went through the day with my little baby boy, my oldest, really lifted my spirits and made me catch the vision of how important the roles of a woman are as a wife, mother, and homemaker. I feel like she’s a close friend, even though we’ve never met. The closest we’ve come to meeting is that I once lived in the same ward as her mother, and then a few years later I heard her speak at Education Week at BYU years ago.

She is a treasure trove of homemaking wisdom. So if you want your home to look like this:

or this:

and you are ready to learn and devote time to organizing, then dig in! (This isn’t my house, it’s my friend’s. I aspire to have a home this lovely as hers.)

If you do an online search you can find her books for sale used, even on amazon. She used to have a website but I can’t find it under the old domain name anymore. If anyone knows a new URL for her site, please comment below.

Last, but not least, here is a summary of the speech she gave at BYU in Nov. 2012 when she was asked to speak at the School of Family Life at BYU. It’s all about how to raise self-reliant kids.

Happy homemaking!