Do you have unexplained symptoms plaguing you? Would you like to get to the root of the problem? Many times, poor digestive health is the root behind illness. If you believe Hippocrates, it’s the root of every illness. He said, “All diseases begin in the gut.”
Come learn about digestive health so you can enjoy vibrant living, especially during springtime! Every one who attends will get a free bottle of lemon essential oil!
**April 22nd- LOGAN 7:00-8:30 pm Team Works Therapy 642 North 1000 West Suite 107 Logan Utah 84321 Presenting: Sharik Peck, Cherie Burton, Tausha Hansen, Tara Kinser
**April 23rd-KAYSVILLE 6:30-8:30 pm DATC Entrepeneurial Center 555 E. 300 S., Kaysville, UT Presenting: Robin Jones, Tara Kinser
**April 29th-SYRACUSE 7:00-9:00 pm Syracuse Community Center 1912 West 1900 South, Syracuse, UT 84075 Presenting: Cherie Burton, Tausha Hansen, Tara Later Kinser
**April 30th-Lehi 7:00-9:00 pm 2481 West 2400 North Lehi, Utah 84043 Presenting: Cherie Burton
(The above video is not the Messiah music obviously, but another memorable Easter hymn, being sung by the MoTabs.)
THIS weekend – April 18-19, Friday and Saturday- the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will be giving an Easter gift of ‘epic proportion’ to the world – and you’re invited! Choir and Orchestra with guest soloists will be performing the ENTIRE Messiah in concert (all 20+ choruses – plus all solos, unabridged). It sounds long, but with the tempos Mack Wilberg is directing it will be EXCITING and go extremely fast! :)*
**When tickets were distributed free online for the 2-night concert, they were gone in less than 7 minutes. Temple Square then opened up overflow areas at the Conference Center’s little theater, JS Memorial Building Theater and North Visitor Center….but, all of those tickets were also gone in just a few minutes! Letters, phone calls, Facebook messages and Tweets began to pour in from people all over the world begging for the concert to be broadcast so that they, too could see and hear this musical gift. * *So…*
The Messiah concert will now be streamed live on mormontabernaclechoir.org/messiah beginning at 7:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time on Friday, April 18. At the conclusion of the Friday performance, viewers may see the concert on-demand via the Choir’s website and on YouTube.com/MormonTabChoir, The concert will be available for viewing through Monday, April 21, 2014 at 11:59 p.m.
*Take advantage of this amazing opportunity to introduce your children to the inspired work of Handel’s music that celebrates and honors the entire life of Jesus Christ .
I have to admit, I am a conference junkie. I love General Conference, homeschooling conferences, holistic living conferences, and mothering conferences, like the kind I used to attend sponsored by La Leche League. I have lots of fond memories of hearing some big names speak, like Dr. Bill and Martha Sears, and Ina May Gaskin. These LLL conferences always involved travel, arranging child care, and hotel expenses. I tired going to Education Week at BYU one year when my oldest was a baby and ti was ill-fated. He got sick and I had to come home. Another year, I was slated to attend a homeschool conference, and my daughter fell the night before and knocked her teeth out, so I had to miss that conference too. Conferences at home back then when all my kids were tots would have been ideal for me.
Guess what? You can attend a conference this week from your home, and hear rock stars in the mom world, like The Food Nanny (pictured with me above, at what else, but a conference). The Moms’ Conference starts on Monday April 7th, 2014 and goes all week.
Each day of the conference, a new set of 4 presentation videos will be made available on The Mom Conference site for a FREE 24-hour viewing/listening period. During the conference, if you want to buy the recordings, you can, at a discount, before the regular pricing for the package starts.
Monday, April 14th – Encore Day
On this day, the Moms Conference people will be posting the 4 most popular presentations. This is the LAST DAY to order the conference package at the special event week price.
For FREE from April 7 – April 14, 2014
During this 100% FREE online conference you’ll be inspired to…
Enjoy being a mother by learning how to stop comparing, judging, or feeling guilty
Put dinner on the table with a few simple tricks when you create 30 days worth of meals in just a few hours (you’re going to LOVE this!)
Get your kids to listen without yelling, nagging, or reminding (this will change your life)
Organize any space and keep it that way (what?!)
Maintain (or re-light) the spark in your relationship
Reclaim your rockin’ bod’ after childbirth without DIEting
Take simple steps to define your time and balance being a mom with other projects/work
And much more! It’s totally cool to listen and learn while doing the dishes or hanging out in your sweats. Yep!
Do you find yourself making and then breaking commitments? Do you feel like you aren’t limiting the sugar and the Internet like you told yourself you would? Do you feel like you would connect with your children more if you could keep your word with them? Do you have daily habits that you want to get ROCK SOLID so you can bear the fruit of joy?
Come take the April session of Mothers Who Know! If you want to enter the chance to win a giveaway of a registration (you will still have to buy the kit of materials) please comment below. Winner will be announced on Wednesday April 9.
I have already blogged about this ebook, but it’s such a great resource that I am blogging about it more and a coupon code to get a discount. Today and until the end of April you can get it for 50% off if you use coupon code EFLFSPRING14. It’s regularly $19.99, so with the coupon you can get it for $9.99.
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The Kick the Weight with Keto ebook tells the story of a woman, Kim Knoch, the blogger over at Eat Fat Lose Fat who has finally found a diet that works! Kim has struggled with being overweight since she was a teen. After hitting 400 pounds, she had weight loss surgery. It was a temporary measure that caused problems in the end. She lost 200 pounds over two years after the surgery but had malnutrition problems and the weight started coming back on. Then she found the Weston A. Price foundation, the paleo diet, and the ketogenic diet. She combined teachings from these philosophies to create her own diet, called “Kim’s Keto.” It is a high fat, medium protein, low-carb diet. It puts your body in fat-burning mode. Kim has been able to lose 40 pounds using this diet which she says is a first for her, as she has never lost that much weight on a diet. She feels she can live on this diet for the rest of her life. Hooray! I love hearing stories like this.
This ebook gives you everything you need to know to embark on a keto diet: an explanation of what a keto diet is, the “how to”, lots of recipes that look scrumptious (these pictures are from the recipes in the ebook), and plenty of encouragement.
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Years ago, I thought that Cedar City UT was the mecca for the Thomas Jefferson Education (TJEd) movement. Whenever I visited southern Utah, I was as excited as if I was going to Disney World, and I fondly called the area “TJEd Land.” When my son attended college there at George Wythe University, I was sooooo insanely jealous! I wanted to be there to attend whatever classes I could. At every weekly mentor meeting over the phone, I asked my son what he was learning. I idealized life in Cedar City, thinking that no better educational nirvana could be found for TJEd homeschoolers.
Since then, I have decided that the Wasatch Front, from Provo to Ogden, is the REAL mecca for TJEd. Here are 17 reasons why.
1. George Wythe University, the college that was cofounded by the author of the TJEd book, Oliver DeMille, moved to Salt Lake City in the summer of 2012. Some may argue that this point does not matter, since GWU has severed its ties with Oliver DeMille, officially as of October 2012. In many people’s minds, however, Oliver DeMille and GWU are related and forever will be. Here is Oliver’s response to the severing of the ties.
I was looking forward to lots of events sponsored by the school, now that it is within 30 minutes of me. Sadly that hasn’t happened much. I did attend the one event they had in the Fall of 2012, featuring Dr. Michael Platt. Hopefully GWU will hold more. I love the energizing feeling that comes from gathering together to learn and discuss great ideas!
2. Leadership Education Mentoring Institute, or LEMI, a company that trains parents to teach “scholar projects” or classes, to youth in homeschool groups, holds its main training in Salt Lake City every summer. This is held usually the second week of July. If you live on the Wasatch Front, you can attend the training and go back home to sleep, whereas if you are in southern Utah, you have to arrange lodging. I have attended this training more than once and have learned much on how to mentor youth. (If you go to the website that I just hyperlinked, you can get some free downloads of recordings, about the Family Commonwealth School, Forms and the 21st Century, and the Edison Project, the class that is for older homeschooled teens as they prepare to go to college.) LEMI was founded by Tiffany Earl and Aneladee Milne and is great resource to connect with if you have no clue about how to create the five environments of TJED for your youth.
3. Almost a dozen Commonwealth Schools, which offer LEMI classes for scholar phase, dot the Wasatch Front. Here are the ones I know about, going from north to south:
North Star Scholars Association in Syracuse UT. The web site is old, but I know it’s still running, because I have friends whose youth attend.
Liber Academy the original commonwealth school started by Aneladee, in Bountiful UT. This is the one I belong to. This year we just added classes for under 12, for love of learning and core phasers. Exciting stuff! You can learn more about these classes/projects here. Here is a video about our school:
What does this mean? If you live on the Wasatch Front, and belong to a commonwealth school, you have an automatic tribe of people to create larger events, like Key of Liberty Constitution Bowls, or if your commonwealth school doesn’t have enough kids for a Quest class, you can join forces with nearby commonwealths. Those are the ones I know about, there might even be more! You can also go see all the Commonwealth School Shakespeare plays when you live on the Wasatch Front, if you should choose to do so. Just beware of the chicken pox. Two years ago, I sent my son to his friend’s play at Shining Light Commonwealth. He stayed at the friend’s home for 15 min., which had sick chicken pox kiddos residing therein, until I could pick him up. He then got sick himself and infected all of the rest of the littles in our home.
4. Other TJED-based homeschool youth groups such as:
Vanguard Academy , which started in Davis County and has offshoots sprouting up in Box Elder County and elsewhere.
5. The Heroic Youth organization, which is dedicated to raising up a Hero Generation dedicated to God. This organization is the umbrella group for:
Mastering Knighthood, which puts on an annual Mastering Knighthood Summit (see video above) in September for boys ages 8 to 12. My family, including 5 boys, has attended this for the past 7 years or so. It is a simulation where boys pretend to be knights defending a kingdom governed by Queen Emily and King Richard against villains. My boys love this! When boys turn 12 they don’t have to stop coming, they can help in leadership roles. To be a Master Knight, which my older son got to be before he left for his LDS mission, is a coveted spot! Dads can help as camp leaders, moms can help as matrons of the camps, and sisters can help as maids in waiting. This is an amazing event! We look forward to it every year and talk about it for days before and days afterwards.
Handmaidens of Virtue which provides companion event for girls ages 8 to 12. I am working on talking my daughter into going to it, including wearing a dress to the Daddy-Daughter Ball afterwards. She’s all for the summit, but won’t wear a dress to the ball. So am I a mean mom for asking her to wear a dress to the ball? I’m figuring that one out.
6. The Wasatch Independent Debate League (WIDL), headed up by Sam Martineau. Sam married a homeschooler and has become converted to homeschooling. He teaches speech and debate classes all over the Wasatch Front. These classes comprise the WIDL. WIDL holds tournaments almost monthly through the school year and camps in the summer. My three oldest children have participated in this and loved it.
My third child got to be on Sam’s elite Mock Trial team this year. Sam had two teams, one for the north end of the Wasatch Front and one for the south. Both teams advanced to the quarterfinals. My son’s team rose to the top of the competition, competing in the state championship. They lost, to the same team that the south lost to, but will be back next year! The Mock Trial program occurs every March in the state of Utah, and public school, home school groups, and private schools compete. It’s an awesome simulation of a courtroom case. This is a great opportunity for TJEders to have a tremendous simulation that stimulates preparation for thinking on your feet. There’s nothing like being a lawyer in a mock trial to learn the need to “think like an attorney.” Sam’s WHDL is probably the best way to take part in the competition as a homeschooler, and it’s hard for most of us homeschool moms to teach speech and debate. Many TJED kids participate in this league.
7. The Moms’ Retreat used to be held annually in Heber Valley. OK that’s technically not the Wasatch Front, but the Wasatch Back, but all the people who organize it live on the Wasatch Front, and Heber Valley is 1 to 2 hours away. This is a TJEd-based overnight event for moms to connect to their mission in life. It’s run by the awesome Melanie Ballard and her amazing board of dedicated moms and you will love it. The next one is August 8-9! Melanie’s husband is doing a Dads’ Retreat this year too!
8. Ascend Lyceum a private school formed by four TJEd families, is based in South Ogden.
9. The Ten Boom Institute, founded by Blaine and Audrey Rindlisbacher, longtime TJEd-ers, was based in Utah County. You can participate in many of their events through the Internet, but they do have in-person events, usually on the Wasatch Front. It is an organization dedicated to helping individuals gain a liberal arts education through home study. Here’s an introduction to their blog:
They have over 220 videos on YouTube, reviewing classics! What a great resource, and you don’t have to be on the Wasatch Front to benefit from these or participate in their monthly online mentoring!
10. The Agency-based Education organization holds a conference every year on the Wasatch Front. Agency based education is based on the book, Teach the Children by Neil Flinders, which is the book that inspired DeMille to write his TJEd book. Here’s a video from the 2012 conference that gives a great intro to why agency based education is needed.
11. Diann Jeppson’s Family Forum is held every year in Salt Lake City. It used to be called The TJEd Forum, but probably because of the events referred to in the hyperlink in #1 above, the TJEd part has been dropped from the event name. TJEd-minded people still attend the event every year, and it’s a great place to network with other parents. Now Diann works for American Heritage School, where she promotes the Latter-day Learning Family School curriculum and puts on the Latter-day Learning Conference every spring at the school in American Fork Utah.
12. Shakespeare Showdown, the premiere event for the LEMI project Shakespeare Conquest classes, is held every spring at the Heber Valley Girls’ Camp. My kids love going to this, and right now I am arm-wrestling with the older kids, signed up to staff, about who gets to stay home and babysit the littles because I want to chaperone this year as my 12 year old goes! Shakespeare acting troupes from Utah and Idaho come to perform their plays for each other.
13. The Royal Academy of Zion, owned by my friends Amy and Von Hansen, puts on a simulation every fall to motivate youth to be refined in manners and morals as they pursue the ideals of Zion and shun the evils of Babylon. My older kids have loved this and eagerly anticipate it every year! Again, many TJED youth participate in this. It’s usually the first or second weekend in November.
14. Many other events and organizations that relate to TJEd simply because they promote the cause of liberty, such as Libertas Institute, the Sutherland Institute, Utah Eagle Forum, and Roots of Freedom, are based on the Wasatch Front. Plus Salt Lake City is the capital so that gives TJEd people on the Wasatch Front easy access to influence state lawmakers to vote for liberty.
15. BYU-Idaho is 3 to 5 hours away, and BYU-Provo is on the Wasatch Front. BYU-Idaho changes are based on Steve Adams’ proposals. Steve Adams is a TJEd dad who joined the staff and has influenced BYU-I to change its learning model to be liberal arts and student-inquiry-centered. BYU-Provo has a great liberal arts program, with all of its humanities classes, and especially if you do the Honors Program and study all of great classics on the reading list and the movies, great works of art, and literature listed here. So if you have a college bound student, and want them to be close by, at a great liberal arts school, you’ve got two on the Wasatch Front: GWU and BYU, and then BYU-I is half a day’s drive away.
16. Williamsburg Academy, an online TJEd-based high school, is not based in the Wasatch Front. It’s in southern Utah, but since it’s online, geography doesn’t really matter. Unless you are going to Elevation, the twice a year high adventure camp for its students. My two older kids have participated in it, and so far I have found that it’s easier to find rides to and from the camp from the Wasatch Front than it is from southern Utah. It appears that the Wasatch Front has a larger amount of Williamsburg students than southern Utah.
So, there you go! The bottom line is, because of geography and population density, the Wasatch Front is the TJEd Mecca. It is difficult to get this many activities going in Cedar City because the city is just not as big. Homeschoolers are a minority, a growing minority, but still a minority, so you have to have a large population base to find a lot of them. Cedar doesn’t have surrounding clustering large cities that boast large amounts of TJED homeschoolers (Parowan, anyone?), like the Wasatch Front does. The two main cities of southern Utah, Cedar and St. George, are about 45 min. to an hour away, with nothing much in between. They have two commonwealths, one in each city, Youth for Freedom, a summer leadership camp for youth, and Williamsburg, and that’s it, as far as I know. My southern Utah friends may correct me if I am wrong. The great news is that because of the wonders of the Internet, you can take part in some of these offerings of the TJEd Mecca even if you live far away. If you have a choice, and could live anywhere, and if you are looking for real live interaction with other TJED-minded people at events and schools and discussion groups, then the Wasatch Front is the place to be!
I just got in a discussion with another mom, however, about how the TJED movement has not produced a huge amount of serious scholars, but that is a blog post for another day! Stay tuned!
This is from my friend Melanie Ballard’s husband! Melanie is famous for her annual Moms’ Retreat, and now her husband is doing one for dads! He has invited one of my favorite authors, Maurice Harker, to come speak! Hooray! This is such an amazing deal! Pass it on!
Maurice is a husband, father, and professional counselor. His mission is to help men, young and old, overcome pornography and sexual addiction. He is the founder and director of Life Changing Services and he founded the Sons of Helaman program in 2005 to help young men who want to serve missions, but struggle with sexual addiction issues. His goal is to help 2000 young men be worthy to serve missions. He is the author of Like Dragons Did They Fight.
Tree of Life Mothering 