Author Archives: hillshum

I feel so neglectful not posting anything on Pioneer Day to honor the pioneers like I have in the past here on my blog. You can find blog posts, here, here, here, and here about my pioneer ancestors. So I thought … Continue reading →

For the next installment of my new novel, Dates With God,  based on Eternal Warriors/Mothers Who Know, we meet Jill. Here’s Chapter 1: Part 2, Jill’s Letter #1,  in which we find out about Jill. Jill is a hip, craftsy-mommy blogger … Continue reading →

Announcing…a treeoflifemothering.com exclusive: I am SO HAPPY to start publishing my NEW novel, which is based on Eternal Warriors/Mothers Who Know! It is called, Dates with God: How Four Mormon Mamas Beat Satan Using the Book of Mormon This novel … Continue reading →

Have you heard about the study by the anthropologist Lionel Tiger? He put some monkeys on an island and then tested what happened when he put the female monkeys on artificial contraception. He found the male monkey exhibited strange behavior … Continue reading →

My family is planning a Nauvoo trip. I went there decades ago, but have never gone taking my own children. Unfortunately, it’s too late for us to catch the pageant, featured in the video above. It ended last week. For … Continue reading →

Someone gave my husband Cinemark tickets for Christmas last year, so we finally took advantage of them. We had a rare movie date night, in a real theater, that charges first-run prices, last weekend. Yay! Usually our movie nights consist … Continue reading →

This video shows that making ketchup isn’t as hard as you thought. If any of you out there have a tomato garden, I hope you use this recipe to use up some of those tomatoes!

I know that NFP Awareness Week is over but I love the topic of NFP so I am going to pretend like it’s not over and keep sharing resources with my readers. Here’s a classic talk by Professor Janet Smith … Continue reading →

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For NFP Awareness Week #5 post, I am sharing this video from the Phoenix Diocese. It has some great quotes and testimonials. I like that it points out at the very beginning that the Pill is classified as a Class … Continue reading →