I just stumbled across Amazon Mom the other day. No, Amazon Mom is not a super-warrior mother of other warrior women, it's a program Amazon offer's targeted at mothers or anyone who is responsible for buying diapers and other essentials for babies and young children. Basically, you put diapers, wipes, and other items you might need to your Subscribe & Save list. Normally Amazon gives you a 5% discount o ...

Questions are powerful things. This is the 1st of several posts about how to use them to help other people. A primary doctrine of Mormonism is service and sacrifice: putting somebody else's needs above our own. These posts will help you use questions to bless the lives of others. The Power of Close-Ended Questions In lots of situations we're taught that we need to use "open-ended" questions. Meaning questio ...

Middle-aged Mormon Man has two excellent solutions for teaching children to behave and cooperate in Sacrament meeting and Church as a whole. One is focused around a punishment (gasp) and making "going to the hall" less-pleasant than sitting in the meeting. The other promotes a reward for good behavior. The Table Method Eventually they would fuss or cry to get carried out of the meeting. But instead of takin ...

Okay, so it's not 2012 anymore. But that's okay, it was a great year to be a Mormon. The Church enjoyed unprecedented attention. So I'm going to ignore the fact that I'm weeks late on getting this final giveaway up, and pretend it's still 2012. Congratulations to our Giveaway 4 Winner! Congratulations to Angie Oliverson on winning 1 year of MyHeritage Premium Plus! We're still trying to confirm our other wi ...

http://youtu.be/xI1r12C5L_E We're going to be doing our 2nd MLH Live Hangout on Google+. Here's the details: When: Sunday the 20th of Jan 2013 at 8PM Mountain Time. Where: Google+ Live Hangout - but check back here and we'll have the live streaming right in this post. What: Review our recent giveaways, hopefully with a few of our winners and/or sponsors Announcing our final giveaway (watch the show for a co ...

And... we're back! After a few days of needed R&R for Christmas and the surrounding days, I'm back to doing our giveaways! This one's for any Genealogists or anyone interested in Family History! Congratulations to our Giveaway 3 Winners! Congratulations to Nathan V. for winning our 1st place prize, including some awesome iOS apps, an iPad case, and more! Also congratulations to Angie O., our 2nd place i ...

Congratulations to our Giveaway 2 winners! Congratulations to Patrick Lynch and Dave McCabe our Giveaway #2 winners. Giveaway 3 is all about iPhone, iPod, & iPad Same rules as the first giveaway. This one ends Sat. the 22nd at midnight Pacific. Winners announced sometime on Sunday, along with the details for the next one. Prizes for Giveaway 3 For all you iOS users, we've got some great apps, plus an iP ...

Congratulations to our Giveaway 1 winners! Congratulations to Matt Galloway and Tupou Taufa, the winners of our 1st giveaway. Giveaway 2 is all about Android Same rules as the last giveaway. This one ends Thurs. the 20th at midnight Pacific. Winners announced Fri morning, along with the details for the next one. I haven't had time to verify if all the included apps are available on the Amazon Appstore. If y ...

It's a giveaway! We didn't have a budget or much time (been really busy). So I decided to hack it. Based on feedback and other factors, we're going to do a series of 4 giveaways between now and Christmas. Some awesome sponsors replied quickly and we've got some great stuff I think you're going to be super excited about. Most will have at least 2 winners, though usually the 1st place winner will receive more ...

On Sunday evening we held the first ever MLH live video Hangout on Google+. We used the "Hangouts on Air" feature which live-streamed the hangout for anyone to watch, on YouTube. It also recorded it, and it's now available on my personal YouTube channel (haven't figured out how to do it yet). View it here: http://youtu.be/Es6_ITOzZTs We're going to try these once a month. We'll do our best to keep them to 3 ...