Photo Credits Above and Below: Highwire’s Rumble Channel
Hold on to your seats! This is a truth bomb of a book! It’s shown below. It’s The Pfizer Papers, edited by Dr. Naomi Wolf (shown above) with Amy Kelly. I highly suggest you watch the video I have linked below in a few paragraphs to hear an encapsulation of the book. Then go get the book! It came out in October 2024.
“Dr. Naomi Wolf is a bestselling author, columnist, and professor; she is a graduate of Yale University and received a doctorate from Oxford. She is cofounder and CEO of DailyClout.io, a successful civic tech company. Since the publication of her landmark international bestseller, The Beauty Myth, which The New York Times called ‘one of the most important books of the 20th century,’ Dr Wolf’s other seven bestsellers have been translated worldwide. The End of America and Give Me Liberty: A Handbook For American Revolutionaries, predicted the current crisis in authoritarianism and presented effective tools for citizens to promote civic engagement. Dr Wolf trains thought leaders of tomorrow, teaching public presentation to Rhodes Scholars and co-leading a Stony Brook University class that gave professors skills to become public intellectuals. She was a Rhodes scholar herself, and was an advisor to the Clinton re-election campaign and to Vice President Al Gore. Dr Wolf has written for every major news outlet in the US and many globally; she had four opinion columns, including in The Guardian and the Sunday Times of London. She lives with her husband, private detective Brian O’Shea, in the Hudson Valley.”
The above bio makes it sound like she’s a liberal since she supported Clinton. Well, she was. Then she changed and became a conservative. I watched a video years ago where she told her story but now I can’t find it. If I find it, I will post it here as soon as I do.
The video I have linked below, featuring Dr. Naomi Wolf, is about the book, The Pfizer Papers. Here is a summary of the video, copied and pasted from rumble.com:
“New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Naomi Wolf, describes how being deplatformed for questioning the dangerous reactions from women after the mRNA vaccines, inspired her to dive into the Pfizer trial documents that were only released by the FDA after action funded by ICAN, with a legal team led by Aaron Siri. Hear how she helped coordinate a team of 3250 doctors and scientists to decode the medical documents and publish the terrifying findings in the new book, The Pfizer Papers.”
In this new book, The Pfizer Papers you will learn more of the truth about the “pandemic” of 2020. Watch the video interview with Del Bigtree here on Rumble to hear a summary of the book. It will make you mad, if you aren’t already, and even madder if you already were, about what happened 5 years ago. At around the 10:20 mark, Dr. Wolf says that the subtitle of the book is “Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity.” Then she says, “I’m the granddaughter of two people who lost eight siblings to the Holocaust. I can say, without hesitation, that this is the greatest crime against humanity in recorded history, because of the scale and the foreknowledge of the harm that they were unleashing on human beings around the world. Pfizer knew, within a month after the rollout of the vaccine into the public, in November 2020, that the vaccine didn’t work to stop COVID. It was ineffective against COVID. The language internally is ‘vaccine failure’ and ‘failure of efficacy.’ In fact, the third most common side effect in the documents is COVID. “
What?! I hope this book convinces everyone out there that that’s what makes the “pandemic” a plandemic!
I love that Dr. Wolf ends on a hopeful note, encouraging us to develop communities based on truth and trust so we can fight this evil of the bioweapon of the jab. It’s time for us to rebuild with wholeness and love.
I sooo admire this woman’s courage, her community building skills, and her tenacity! As it says on the dailyclout.com site (her website of independent journalists) about the book:
“This is a book that three governments — the U.S., the U.K. and Australia — all sought to suppress. The story of how it came to be is extraordinary — 3,250 highly credentialed doctors and scientists under the leadership of one extraordinary woman, Amy Kelly, worked for two years on the internal Pfizer documents released under court order by a successful lawsuit by attorney Aaron Siri.
“In the process, these volunteers confirmed the greatest crime against humanity of all time.” Go here to read more about it. This is tragic and important information to process and act on!
Get the book on amazon, read it, and/or listen to the book in Audible. This book goes into great detail, basically showing that Pfizer knew the jab doesn’t work and has terrifying side effects. This is staggering!
Then answer these questions, from the dailyclout.io page about this book, which I’m processing as well:
Whom will you tell?
How will you process the information?
What will you do to avenge the crimes of the past?
If you are a student of The Fourth Turning book as I am, you have no doubt been wondering what the Crisis or Fourth Turning is for the current cycle we are in. The last one was World War II. When 9/11 happened, some thought it was that. Then some thought maybe it was the crash in 2008. When the plandemic happened, and I saw liberties restricted, I decided, “Yes, this is it! This is Fourth Turning/the Crisis!”
After watching the video I linked above, I am convinced now more than ever that the “pandemic” is the Fourth Turning/Crisis because of what Dr. Wolf said in the video about the jab being the “greatest crime against humanity.”
My Veggie Gal girlfriend Heather says she is convinced that this “epidemic,” as a premeditated disaster to reduce the world’s population and bring it harm, marks the end of the half-hour of silence mentioned in Revelation 8:1. She says that this means we have seen the opening of the Seventh Seal, and all of those disasters prophesied. So, dig into the word of God and prepare yourselves for “If you are prepared you shall not fear.” (Doctrine and Covenants 38:30)
Want to learn more about the last days and what to expect so you can prepare more and not fear?
Go here to learn about a NEW book The Last Days Decoded by Janet Kent, and watch some videos featuring the author. This is all gold!
The above is a new book that has just come out in the past few months. I haven’t read it, but I have watched some of the author’s presentations in YouTube. I’m excited to get my hands on the book! Scroll down below and watch the three videos I recently watched with the author Janet Kent. I feel the Holy Spirit as I watch them. I feel even more excited about Christ’s coming because of the truth spoken in these videos. I hope you enjoy them.
You can get the author’s book here. You can see her website here. These are treasure troves of truth! I love that she says in the first video below that she purposely wrote her book for the average person to understand. She says she got frustrated that a certain scholar out there has written books on the last days that are for the PhD level of understanding. I’m pretty sure I know who she’s talking about, LOL.
Here in this post are some screenshots from the videos to give you a taste of what you will learn from the videos. The more we know about what to expect as we approach Christ’s Millennial Reign, the more we can prepare and survive the tribulations, feeling peace and love instead of fear.
As she says on the cover of her book, shown above, we can triumph during these times! Because we are past the eclipse date of April 8, 2024, our current place in history is on both of the timelines below. If you watch the third video at the bottom of this post you will understand the author’s explanation of these three harvests of barley, wheat, and fruit. It’s all so fascinating!
The author got both these timelines from Rhonda and Farrell Pickering. She says that Farrell was inspired to create these timelines after reading this article from Lenet Hadley Reed, over here, about how Joseph Smith received the golden plates, from which he translated the Book of Mormon Another Testament of Jesus Christ, on the Feast of Trumpets date on 23 September 1827. That article inspired him to search for other connections of these Hebrew Holy Days with the gospel of Jesus Christ. He looked to see how the Hebrew Holy Days fit in with Christ’s first coming and His second comings. Rhonda and Farrell have an amazing website over here where you can buy their timeline to see all of this. Farrell also searched to see how Daniel’s numbers fit in with all of this.
Daniel’s numbers, from the book of Daniel in the Bible, are shown below.
Credit goes to Farrell for figuring out how these numbers fit in with the timeline. Amazing!
The screenshots below are the author’s simplified versions of their timeline. It’s just so amazing to see how the Hebrew Holy Days and Daniel’s numbers are intertwined in this timeline of the last days. It gives me comfort to see all this fits together in beautiful perfect order, authored by God.
I also find it interesting that the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, in 2024, which we’ve already passed, and Hanukkah 2034 form “bookends” for Daniel’s numbers on the chart below. “SC” in the chart below stands for “Second Coming.” These prophesied Second Comings are all given in scripture. They are the time when Jesus comes to Adam-ondi-Ahman, then the Mount of Olives, the temple in Jerusalem, and then lastly, in clouds in power and glory.
In the first video Sister Kent reconciles these appointed dates with the scripture that says no man knoweth the day or the hour that Jesus comes, from Matthew 24:36. It makes sense to me.
It’s true, the greatest stand-off of the eternal battle between good and evil is coming! As Sister Janet says, it’s time to pick your side! This chart above created by Sister Kent that shows the difference between good and evil is so true. God really does want to give us all that He has, even exaltation to His level, as a god (see Doctrine and Covenants 76:50-70), and satan wants us to be his objects. May you choose to have the “Force” be with you and not be forced as an object used by satan.
The first two videos below show Janet Kent talking to Nancy James about her book. First Sister Kent tells her story, how she came to find Jesus after getting married and moving to New Hampshire. She tells of living like a hippie, feeling a bit dissatisfied with life, and finding Christ and becoming Christian. That takes up the first 26 minutes or so. Then she explains the four Second Comings of Christ. Then she gets into telling some stories that show patterns of protection and talks some about the book.
This third video shows Sister Kent presenting a summary of the book. It’s all so very fascinating! Lots of meat to chew on in these videos and her book. Thank you, Sister Janet Kent, for sacrificing your time and energy to do the research and write this book. This book is pure gold!
You can get handouts from Sister Kent here, showing her expanded timeline, and over here, regarding God’s attributes and satan’s counterfeits, shown in the screenshot above.
Below is the back cover image of her book. I love what it says! So true! May we all be part of this new day dawning in Zion with all of scattered Israel gathered in.
OK, you can get most of these videos here, but I thought it would be fun to put them here on my blog, plus more, for these reasons:
I love the Duggars, although I don’t agree with all their choices. Some of their choices were too legalistic and too strict. Like no dancing. It’s been interesting to see the fall-out happen from the strictness they enforced and not compensating the children fairly for their appearances on the show, what with Jill and Jinger’s books coming out. It’s also been heartwarming to see the family find hope and healing In Christ. They have compensated the children, loosened up on their strictness, at least from what I can tell, and moved forward after all that plus oldest child Josh’s arrest and imprisonment.
I admire that the Duggars were so willing to have so many children, embracing the culture of life to the fullest extent. I admire that they taught them Biblical principles the best they could. Of course, I’m sad about what happened with Josh. Every child has his or her agency. Sometimes children make bad choices, no matter how well they are taught and how much they are loved. None of us are perfect parents or children and we all make mistakes.
I love that the children are such hard workers, enterprising, and help each other with their projects.
I’m so happy that Jana, the oldest daughter, got married!!!! She looks so happy with her one true love, Stephen Wissman.
I love that Jana is so handy with power tools, gardening, decorating, remodeling, etc.
I want a place where the videos are in the order that I want them to be.
I want a place where my comments can be easily seen on some of the videos.
So here we go!
Little did we know last year, when Jana released this video over here, about her tiny house, that she was secretly dating her beau from the singing Wissmann family. She had also released these projects below about what she’d been doing over the past months of 2024, keeping mum about her biggest project, falling in love with Stephen. He’s in the video below, singing with his family.
An Internet search says that she got engaged on June 15, 2024. In this video below she is taking her little sisters along with her to give him a surprise visit at his worksite in Nebraska.
In the video above we see Stephen give her a joke engagement ring, a ring pop, which she puts on her finger. As far as I can find, she has not released a video of their actual engagement. Then we have this video below where she showed the house, in Nebraska, that they were renovating together. He was already living in it. She moved in after the wedding. She took her sisters from the Duggar home in Arkansas and stayed at the home in the guest bedroom with her sisters when they visited. Good-old fashioned Duggar chaperoning at work!
The one below shows more of their work on the house plus some summer fun with the family on a lake.
Then here’s the video of the renovation of just the kitchen.
This is all so fun to see them prepare their home as they prepare for the wedding as well. I wonder if all their dates consisted of remodeling the home.
Next is the fun bachelorette party that Jana took with her mom, sister-in-law Abbie, and all the sisters except Jill, in California. My favorite moment is at the 17:51 mark when Michelle Duggar turns into Mama Bear and chases after a guy who stole someone else’s wallet on the streets of Santa Barbara. I love how she says to the bad guy, “Your mama would not be pleased with you!” Michelle called the cops on the guy. So they came and confronted the bad guy. Way to go Supermama Michelle, using your mama bear chemistry to fight for truth and justice!
It was at this party, above, that sister Jinger announced her 3rd pregnancy while the sisters and mom were in the hot tub.
Now let’s watch the bridal shower and the bachelor party.
I love the dress she chose, below, in her wedding dress and venue shopping trips with her sisters. She asked for the dress to be altered, and then it didn’t quite turn out how she wanted. So then her sister-in-law said that her friend could help. That appears in the wedding video part 1, which is further down on this page. This friend, Bella, worked her magic with tailoring and a gravity-fed iron to make the dress the one of Jana’s dreams.
Then there’s the countdown to the wedding. Such excitement!
The big day! It was August 15, 2024, the same day that I toured Orchard House, the home of Little Women’s author Louisa May Alcott. It was part of my trip to New England and NYC which I blogged about over here. It’s just so fun that each of us got to see a dream come true on the same day. She shared the wedding in two parts, below. It’s also cool that the day was the wedding anniversary of Brandon and Michaela Bates Keilen, since the Duggars are longtime family friends of the Bates, who also have 19 children.
Speaking of the Bates, it’s also fun to see Josie Bates Balka as Jana’s stylist, doing her hair and makeup the morning of the wedding.
Here’s sister Jinger’s take on the wedding.
Where did they go on their honeymoon? The first few days were in Arkansas and then St. Lucia. I don’t blame them for taking a few days to take it easy after all the stressful wedding prep to just chill without having to jet off somewhere far away.
I just love seeing her so happy! Seeing her happy has brought a lot of people joy, people who have been waiting to see her marry for a long time, as she was 34. Someone made a comment on her wedding video on YouTube saying that her mother has dementia. When the daughter told her that Jana got married and showed her the wedding video the woman smiled. She started talking about Jana using her name. The memory of watching Jana when she was younger pierced through the fog and brought the woman joy. That whole thing made me smile. It’s like Jana is everybody’s granddaughter, daughter, or sister, and we are celebrating with her. May she have a wonderful life of wedded bliss!
I attended an event recently about the importance of defying tyrants with the doctrine of the lesser magistrate. If you care at all about keeping the power of government within its constitutional bounds, it is imperative that you learn this doctrine and how to apply it to protect your life and your family. Here is a similar video of the presentation that I saw, below, with the same presenter. I encourage all who care about enjoying liberty to watch it, learn, and take action. You can get the book of the presenter, Pastor Matthew Trewhalla, here. I agree with the tagline “Divine Law trumps human laws.” Amen!
Some people may ask about how Romans 13 fits in with all this. Pastor Trewhalla has an appendix in the book all about that. This is all the Spirit of 1776 folks! He said that the roots of our great USA come from this doctrine, all modeled by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts.
That’s Hilda Labrada Gore shown above. I’ve been listening to the podcast she does for the Weston A. Price Foundation for years, ever since it started when I lived in southern AZ. It’s called The Wise Traditions podcast, over here. She feels like an old girlfriend, one of my Veggie Gals, even though we have never met. Definitely a kindred spirit. That’s why I am so excited to hear that she got to be at the RFK Jr. confirmation hearing for one day for his nomination for Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Credit for Book Cover Images Above and Below: amazon.com
Listen below and enjoy. I love that she says so many women in the crunchy mom influencer space were there, like Zen Honeycutt and the lady beyond the 1K hours outside podcast, Ginny Yurich. She says she definitely felt such a power of love emanating from these people to support RFK Jr. as they watched. Go MAHA MAMAs go!
I agree with one of the hosts that government can’t make us healthy. Health is largely based on personal choice, and it is cultivated not injected. Health is something that moms, more than any other people, can bring about, not the government. That’s part of the role of mother, as nurturer. Government’s job is stay out of our health choices and not have laws that limit our options for health and health care. Now that RFK Jr. has been confirmed, I hope he reigns in the government’s reach regarding health instead of extending it.
He is definitely a humble man. I love that he said that for decades he has prayed daily that God would use him to help improve the health of children. He has done that with the Children’s Health Defense Fund that he started (I totally recommend you get on their email list). Now as HHS Secretary he can continue this mission. I also love that he has gained humility from his long-ago years as a drug addict. He said publicly that he goes to AA meetings every day to stay sober. That’s the humility we need in leaders.
Want to hear his story? Watch below and hear his journey towards faith in God. His story is an amazing testimony of God showing up in his life in what some people call synchronicity or coincidence.
This is soooo late, but I’m finally getting it up before February is over! Here are the pretty, happy, funny, smart and/or interesting things I smiled at in January 2025.
On New Year’s Day I got to play Settlers of Catan Cities and Knights version with my firstborn and his wife. After seeing my offspring play this game for years, and playing it myself with them halfheartedly, occasionally, I’m finally feeling the charm of the game. They brought their own copy of the game from their home in Texas, including the upgrades that my son printed with his 3-D printer. See the bright blue hexagons below with the white squiggly line? That’s supposed to be water with ocean froth. He printed those plus the tan frames for the hexagonal pieces, as well as the little sheep with the number 2 by it. It’s like we are back when he was 6 and he drew something that made me beam, which I’m bragging about :-). My daughter-in-law won the game. It was so fun to see her interact with my son as they talked back and forth making deals to stay out of each other’s way as they built their cities and strategized.
I felt so blessed to play this game with them, as at first it looked like I wouldn’t be able to play ANY games with them. We were planning on having a big family New Year’s vacation at my parents’ cabin in the mountains. They were already there and we were driving up to meet them. Staying at this cabin in the winter involves meeting my dad with his ATV in a parking lot so he can drive us up the mountainside with his snow tracks. For this particular trip, my sister and nephew were doing the pickup duty. On their way to meet us, the ATV broke down. There was no other way to get there, on the deep snow, so we had to turn around and go home. I was feeling so sad that I wouldn’t see my son and his wife. I knew they had a flight to catch the next day to go back to their home. How happy I was the next morning when I woke up to a text from dear son asking if they could come by and see us at our home. My son said they were able to delay their flight a day. So, they came over and we played the game and had a wonderful time. On top of that they announced that their Christmas gift to me was tickets to see Little Women at the Hale Center Theater in March. I’m so excited! They remembered how much I love the book/movies (see here) and decided to gift me tickets! How thoughtful!
Two of my sons got to go target practice shooting with their aunt, uncle, and cousin on New Year’s Day, while I was playing Catan with their brother and sister-in-law. This was to make up for the aborted trip last Christmas Day that got canceled due to illness and rain.
We watched Wicked as a family on New Year’s Day, in our “home theater” (family room) after hearing so much hype about it. I enjoyed it, although the skeptical part of me keeps wondering if there’s some hidden agenda behind it. Is it really promoting good? Why does something that promotes good have to be named the opposite of good? Is it all a bunch of psychological trickery? It reminds me of Disney’s board game Villainous, which I enjoy playing, but why is it set up for the players to be playing the villains instead of the heroes, with the winner being the villain who is first to accomplish his or her goals?
I went thrifting on the day after New Year’s with my teen daughter and found the treasures above. I was thrilled that she actually asked me to take her thrifting, as those moments are rare, and I am always looking for an excuse to thrift. Those black ankle boots in the upper right are brand new, Franco Sarto boots, that looked never worn, totally brand new! $16 instead of over $100, baby! Maybe because they are not the current trendy version of their boots. That doesn’t matter to me. I don’t care about having the latest fashion. I’m OK with finding quality classic pieces. That’s why I love thrifting!!!! I just love all these finds!!! Those potholders also looked brand new, Kitchen Aid brand, and the cheery cherry pattern just makes me so happy! $3 for the pair! I love that they are short and so quick and easy to put on to pull stuff out of the oven. I have them hanging from magnetic hooks on the fridge right next to the oven now. Then there’s the brightly patterned sweater, and the brown loafers, and the two cute shirts and the Christmas picture book, two Easter chapter books, a knitting book, a Christmas traditions book, and to top it all off, Samuel Hahnemann’s Organon of Medicine, which is the Bible of homeopathy written by the founder of homeopathy himself!!!!! You can find it free online, but it’s so much nicer to have it in book format!!! What a deal!!! This was such a fabulous day for thrifting. Plus, my daughter found some clothes she wanted and some boots.
The haul above was just from one store. One the same day, I went to a another thrift store and found the goodies below.
I just love the sweater with its popcorn stitching and the eyelet top. I love that I found another copy of Emily Belle Freeman’s Christ Centered Christmas, after giving away my first copy to my married daughter when I stuffed her stocking on Christmas Eve. One book I found turned out to be a garbage book, that’s why I blacked it out in the photo. It’s in the landfill now. Maybe I should have burned it so no one else will find it :-). I was so thrilled to find the Necessary Lie. I heard the authors speak over a year ago at a fireside and bought the book for my husband for Christmas. It’s about a married couple who escaped North Korea. My husband binged on North Korea escapees for months so that book added to his binge. All in all the above totaled around $100 so I decided not to go thrifting until February.
I had a great post-Christmas Veggie Gals/Jolabokaflod lunch party on Jan. 3. This post here explains Jolabokaflod. Girlfriend Kathie hosted the grand event. She has a large, lovely home. Inside this large, lovely home she has a long dining room table that fit all 14 of us! Her tree shown below, is so beautiful, I’m sure you agree.
Oh, what delightful times! I invited some long-lost friends from Layton who I know from when I lived there, and they made the trek. Oh what joy comes from visiting with long-time, dearest girlfriends!
We had a yummy lunch, mostly carnivore for me. I had some of the low carb stuff like the soup and admired the tother beautiful carbs, such as the carb laden dish shown above, and did not partake.
After lunch, we then opened our white elephant books for our Jolabokkaflod book gift exchange.
Here’s one of my girlfriend’s reactions when she opened up her book.
It’s a book about the history of the ancient Filipino people. That’s my Veggie Gals for you! So interested, even downright giddy, in good things, even if they are ancient and obscure, to the point of never-even-heard-of-before.
Hostess with the Mostest Kathie had such a cool Lego Christmas Village display. How fun! I wonder how she stores all this during the rest of the year.
The following Sunday, I played the shortest Scrabble game of my life with my two sisters, one son and one daughter. My sister came from Maine to bring her daughter to BYU-Idaho (not the one she brought last fall) and spent some time with our side of the family and then her husband’s side. So we had a family gathering while they were in town, chatting, doing a puzzle, and playing Scrabble. What made it fast was that we each started with 10 letters and we agreed to do fast turns, because some of us, including me, dread the long turns that Scrabble tends to involve. (Bananagrams is so much better.) It was probably the worst game of Scrabble, i.e. lowest scoring game, I’ve ever played since I just put down the first word I could think of to keep to the time limit, but it was still fun.
I loved watching different videos of Gil Bates’ 60th birthday party, like the own below. His birthday, Jan. 1, is close to the birthday of my Girlfriend Mindy, Dec. 31. She turned 60 as well! It reminded me that my oldest brother is turning 60 this year too. What does this mean? My generation is old! Old is good though!
Below is Gil praying with his family before they have a big family dinner for his party. He’s such an amazing father. Watch the video above to hear his children singing his praises and telling stories. I just love all this!
I enjoyed watching this video that my husband’s cousin Lynne did regarding Joseph Smith and the environment he came from, including his family tree. Go here to watch. The two images below are from that video.
Solomon Mack was Joseph’s maternal grandfather. It’s so wonderful that he had a testimony of Jesus Christ to pass down to his posterity, as shown in the image above.
I was so happy to see that Sarah Mackenzie shared the above book in her video, which I have over here (scroll down to the very end for the video), recommending it as a book for moms to read to feel more joy. I have used it for Morning Basket with my son and gave it to my son-in-law for his January birthday. He got a set of books about Tolkien for Christmas from my daughter so he’s getting into Tolkien. I figured this would make his learning journey even more fun!
I enjoyed watching the presidential inauguration with my son for part of our homeschool day. I didn’t vote for Trump but still enjoyed it. Who knows how much of Pres. Trump’s speech was theatrics and how much is not? How sincere is Pres. Trump in invoking God’s name and appealing to the right? Is he just doing it all for show and to get more power? I don’t know. It was refreshing, however, to hear a U.S. President refer to God. I hope it’s for real.
I did enjoy seeing all the fashions of his family, at least the females, for the different events, the actual inauguration ceremony, and then the balls and dinners, and such, surrounding the whole thing. I didn’t love First Lady Melania’s hat, because it didn’t show her eyes. I agree that it also makes her look like Hamburglar from McDonalds, as someone on the Internet first said. (You have to be a Gen Xer or older to get that.) Some of my girlfriends liked it though, saying it’s a gangster hat. They said it made it look like she was telling her husband’s enemies to back off.
I love that the inauguration ceremony took place in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. The paintings and the statues there have such a rich heritage of America’s godly past. Here’s more about that with a video that explains it all.
One of Trump’s daughters, Ivanka Trump, shows her gown for some of the inauguration gala events above and below. Courtesy of Ivanka Trump’s Instagram account. Both are so lovely although slightly immodest. I would never wear either except in my fantasy life :-). Oh, they are both just so beautiful. Wow! I know the above one is a copy of Audrey Hepburn’s dress in Sabrina but I don’t know about the other one.
I just love the way J.D. Vance’s wife is smiling at him during his swearing in as the new V.P. I wish for every husband to have such an adoring wife who looks at him like that. Then his little daughter sucking her thumb? So totally adorbs. She definitely looks like her daddy.
This is one of my VG girlfriend’s new phone wallpaper. It definitely made me smile.
I was sad to hear of Wayne Osmond’s passing. The video of his funeral including his brother Donny singing in a big family choir made me cry and smile. Watch it here, it’s posted below the story I tell of Donny’s mother giving away a Book of Mormon to the Queen of England. I just love the Osmonds. What a great family that has brought so much light, laughter, and love into the world.
Hearing about this new board game coming out in 2025 made me smile for sure. Not that I’ve ever knitted anything. I’m just in love with the idea and hope to do it someday. The game is a standalone sequel to Calico, which I reviewed here.
Here’s is what some of the pieces look like. Looks fun and cozy!
Speaking of knitting, wearing my sweaters continued to keep me happy. I love that I can wear one of my new thrifted sweaters with so many different pants or skirts! I just love the snowflake necklace too that I got in my Christmas stocking, pretty sure from my married daughter playing Santa. I love that I can wear it with so many different tops. I know I posted this last month, but this sweater and necklace continue to make me smile so much. 🙂
I decided that I want to resume my reading of the Saints books, from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A few years ago, I read Vol. 1, I think maybe Vol 2. as well. I started Vol. 3 and never finished. I decided to read them backwards this year, starting with Vol 4 , then Vol. 3, and so forth. I think if I do it that way I will remember the stories in the books better for some reason. So, I’m in Vol. 4 and reading it almost every night on my phone with the black background until I fall asleep. You can read all the volumes here for free or get them in hard copy as well for a cost. Put the Gospel Library app on your phone and then you can read on your phone.
In January, I started mentoring my LEMI Hero Project Class with my 15-year-old son and 3 other students. We played the Diplomacy board game the first day, just to get them interested in the politics of Europe, which is part of the back story of WW1 and WW2. I love that two of my son’s best friends (he has about 3) love to play board games like I do and that we can borrow games from them, like this Diplomacy game.
Seeing snow outside my front window, with my fun New Year’s/Valentine’s decorations and twinkly star lights, made me smile with the hygge-ness of it all. It’s hard to tell but the window has my paper snowflakes on it.
Attending a Mock Caldecott Award Night at a local public library was so much fun! I loved seeing all these picture books that came out in 2024 that I didn’t even know about! Here’s a recap over here. This is definitely something to look forward to every January.
We had a birthday party for three family members on a Sunday night, Zooming in the two sons and their families from Texas. My son-in-law, my younger daughter, and one of my daughters-in-law each have a January birthday. I just love it when we can all get together, even if some of them are on the screen. We sing “Happy Birthday,” say a compliment or memory about the birthday person, while the in-person people east the birthday treat, and open gifts. Sometimes we play a Jackbox game, or another game, or I show photos of the birthday person/people, especially older ones. I love it that my daughter asked to use one of my ice cream parfait glasses to serve her husband his birthday treat. These glasses sit on the top shelf of my hutch with my Christmas -that-fit-into-Valentine-aesthetic mugs, shown below.
I finished on average a book a week in January. My favorite was the Kisses From Katie book, for my online Shumway Sisters’ Book Club. So, then I binged on a bunch of Katie’s videos in YouTube.
If you don’t know who Katie is, go read the above book and start finding podcast and YouTube interviews with her like the one above. She’s a godly woman who has adopted over a dozen girls from Africa in addition to having two biological sons. She also started a nonprofit organization to help children in Africa. So amazing!
I also read/finished these books. Some of them I started before this month, but I finished them all in January. Then here are all the books I completed in 2024.
Then of course I had fun with new sweater combos. Over here I have more of my sweater combos for winter.
I got this Little Women T-shirt from my trip to Orchard House last summer. I love that it can go with so many different sweaters: white, tan, gold, black, yellow, and teal.
Then this one can go with yellow, white, black, red, teal, gray, and tan. So versatile!
That’s a wrap! Now to get February’s PHFR/Things That Made Me Smile post!
Who’s going to RootsTech 2025? It’s coming up in less than two weeks! March 6-8 2025! It’s the largest family history conference in the world! It happens every year, sponsored by FamilySearch, in Salt Lake City, UT. You can go here to learn all about it. You can even attend some of the classes from the comfort of your recliner in your PJs! It’s so exciting to see the cool technology unveiled every year, with apps, software, and websites that increase everyone’s ability to search out and enjoy learning about their family tree. It feels like Christmas!
These classes will help you increase your skills and knowledge so you can build your knowledge of your family tree or add to it. Knowing who your ancestors are allows you to feel more connected to them, more joyful, and more open to the future. Learning about my relatives and the hard times they’ve gone through has helped me go through my hard times.
I also firmly believe that our deceased relatives are angels watching over us, and they can help us do things for us that we can’t do for ourselves, as we help them with temple work, in temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is something they can’t do for themselves. That’s my biggest reason for searching out my family tree! Kim Sorenson beautifully testifies of this in her story over here.
Go here to learn all about RootsTech, then register to come in person or online! In person attendance involves an admission cost, online attendance is free and limited to certain classes.
Be sure to watch Saturday’s Family Discovery Day, featuring speakers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It’s always so inspiring! Go here to learn about that, and then scroll down to the end to see the schedule. Look to the right to see what classes are available online.
Here are some sneak peeks of what’s happening at RootsTech 2025 below.
Here’s one of my favorite videos from RootsTech Family Discovery Day showing Elder Neil L. Andersen issuing a temple challenge to youth. I have taken it to hear as well and been so blessed by it. It’s five years old but applies just as much to today. He’s speaking again on FDD this year too, with his wife.
I was soooo over-the-moon happy to see this YouTube video come up in my feed of suggestions!!! It has two of my favorite influencers, Dr. Ben Bikman (a professor at my alma mater, BYU, who I’ve blogged about here) and Dr. Jordan Peterson talking about what makes us fat and sick: too many carbs. Yess!!!!
For decades, I ate too many carbs, even though they were “good” carbs, meaning whole foods. I ate LOTS of whole grains (brown rice, whole wheat sourdough bread, millet, quinoa, etc.), TONS of beans, lentils, fruits and veggies. I spent 7 years being vegan or vegetarian. I thought this was THE way to eat, and that if just exercised more, I would be fine.
After eating this way and having 7 babies, I ended up weighing more than 200 lbs when Baby #7 was two months old. I was not happy with this. I wanted to cry!!! Fortunately, I have lost the weight and feel much better in my skin.
I was insulin resistant from eating so many carbs, even though they were whole foods/”good” carbs, i.e. complex carbs, for so many years. The video above explains the physiology. Watch and learn.
One solution is the keto diet. Dr. Bikman has an office down the hall from one of my siblings. His suggestion to my sibling to try keto helped my sibling lose weight and eliminate this person’s headaches. Keto has helped me tremendously, too, along with intermittent fasting.
How do you know if you are insulin resistant? Check the image of symptoms above. They all come from insulin resistance, according to Dr. Bikman. If your insulin resistant symptom is too much weight, get my ebook over here to see how I lost 70 lbs without exercise. Read more of my story over here.
Calling all homeschooling mamas, especially if you feel burned out!!! (Anyone else can read this too of course. :-)) It’s that time of year when homeschooling can feel really hard.
At least in a lot of North America, the skies are gray, the ground is brown, gray, yellow, and cold. Cabin fever can set in. That’s why I looooove the topic of the recent Read Aloud Revival Podcast/YouTube video, hosted by the delightful Sarah Mackenzie, pictured above.
She explains how books, both picture books and chapter books, are such great ways to “take us to lands away.” This totally helps us get those oxytocin dumps, along with gameschooling, which you can read about here and here. #abookandgameaday. This simple routine has helped me keep sane and happy while homeschooling, year in and year out, for many years! (My oldest is 31, my youngest is 15.) Plus relying on my philosophy of the organic seasons of learning, read about that here.
Winter/homeschooling/mothering in general can all make it impossible/hard to travel in person, but that doesn’t mean we can’t travel to fun places in our minds, with books!
One, two or more picture books a day can keep the winter blues away! With a library card, you don’t even have to buy these books. (Go here to see how a library card can help with your homeschooling in general.)
Watch below, then scroll down to see some of the books recommended by Sarah and me, to travel with!
My son and I just finished the above book together! We got to go to Manhattan last August (see here about our grand adventure with my two little grandsons), so that made reading the book extra meaningful. I just wish we had found it before we traveled. Such an interesting, fun book!
If you want to get Sarah’s list of recommended books for the Northeastern U.S., go here. So fun! It sounds like she will be preparing more lists for other regions. I can’t wait to see them! You can see other lists here. Bon voyage!
I love just reading picture books and talking about them, that’s always been enough for me and my seven children for the early years. When they showed interest in reading and writing, I added Mathusee math work and handwriting. Those who wanted to get into college, went and graduated, without doing worksheets about books or crafts, along with their scholar classes at our commonwealth. My post here explains what our homeschooling journey looks like.
If you have the energy, however, and desire to want some writing, crafts, and food to go with geography studies, then watch the video of Marcie Holladay/Single Mom on a Farm below and get her curriculum for the United States. This all looks so fun!
Since the presidential inauguration of Trump happened on 20 Jan 2025 without a hiccup, how does that fit in with Ezra’s Eagle prophecy? Ezra’s Eagle prophecy was first brought to light by Michael Rush. You can see my previous posts about it over here. He interpreted it as meaning that Biden, as a “short feather” would not have a second term as president. We have seen this come to pass. He also said that Trump would be a “short feather” and not have a second term and “appear no more.” Trump, however, has been elected and inaugurated for his second term, so is the prophecy still true?
It just depends on how you interpret the prophecy.
Here’s a different interpretation, in the video below, taking into account Trump’s successful inauguration. It’s very interesting! If you are used to just listening to videos and not watching them, please use your eyes and ears to pay attention to this video. You will miss out on the graphics and words posted on the screen if you just listen and don’t watch. Scroll below to see some of the screenshots from the video.
All screenshots shown above and below the video come from the video, which is from the YouTube Channel, Ezra’s Eagle.
So, according to the above picture, Trump counts as one feather, not two, and then he will appear no more. Hmmm….
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