These sheets have been created to help kids and families find ways to participate in working on family history. These can be freely distributed; no attribution is necessary. Please use them however you see fit to best promote family history. Family History Activity Sheets Downloadable PDFs
What to do for Mother’s Day at Church?
When it comes to celebrating Mother’s Day with a congregation of people, it can become very difficult to make sure everyone is happy. There are a number of different reasons why this is a sensitive holiday for some: Infertility Death of a child Lost child Loss of a Mother Unmarried And sometimes traditional “gifts” for […]
The Best Places to Find a Technical Co-Founder
When creating a technology startup, one of the hardest parts for many non-technical founders is finding a technical co-founder. Technical co-founders can sometimes seem like unicorns, do they really exist?? Are they out there?? And where do they hide?? General Characteristics to Know About Technical People Generally speaking, and I know these can be seen […]
Startup Book Reading List
So with this new SaaS startup I’m working on, I’ve been reading a bunch of books, and I plan on reading a bunch more. Even started an event with the local startup group here in town called “ReadUp” where we will read one book per month and discuss it. Let me know if I should […]
Are you Master or Servant to your Device?
“Handheld devices, such as smartphones, are a blessing, but they can also distract us from hearing the “still, small voice.” They need to be our servants, not our masters. For example, if later tonight you share inspiring thoughts from this devotional on social media, your smartphone is a servant. If you randomly surf the Internet, […]
New Year, New Family History Habits!
I wrote these up when coming up with the January Family History Activities sheet… This was the initial draft that just ended up having way too much content for a one-page activity sheet for kids. So here’s the longer version! Ten Ways to Do More Family History this Year Set the Family Tree app as […]
10 Commandments of Good Sportsmanship
My son is in the Golden Knights Youth Hockey program and his awesome coach was sending these out to the kids one per week and I am obsessed with them. His coach said that they came from a hockey magazine he has, but didn’t know who wrote them. I scoured the internet for these 10 […]
How to Get Your Kid into Youth Hockey with the Golden Knights Program
So about a year ago, we were desperate for information on how to get our kid into the Golden Knights kid hockey program, and it was very, very hard to obtain. You would think there would be a website that very simply laid out how it works to get your kid into hockey in Las […]
A Regular Dude’s Guide on How I Lost Over 50 lbs on Keto
In April of 2021, a good friend of mine started doing Keto and somehow talked me into doing it with him. I usually HATE diets, never have time for working out (and feel like working out never works for me), and generally didn’t care to try and do anything about being overweight. There was also […]
The Power of Singing the Hymns
The intermediate hymn was “Ye Elders of Israel” The most popular song in 1833 was a song called “Long, Long Ago” written by Thomas H. Bayly… guess where the music for ye elders of Israel came from?? Here’s what I hope to convey today: let’s all sing. We will be blessed by singing the hymns. […]