A FREE Homemade Christmas Gift Your Spouse Will Actually LOVE!

By Celeste There is less than a week until Christmas!!! How did that happen?!?! What are you getting your spouse this year for Christmas?? If you don’t yet have an answer to that question, DON’T DESPAIR! I too, often procrastinate my gift selections. And I too, like to be thrifty yet thoughtful in my gift giving. This year, get your spouse something free they will actually love: an act of selfless sacrifice for them. Here’s four steps on how to do that: 1. Think of Something You Know Your Spouse Would Like You to Improve Brainstorm with me… Read More

September 26, 2014June 13, 2016

Advice Needed: How to Best Bond with Your Spouse

What’s the best part of your day? Mine is easy. When we finally finished the bedtime marathon; all the waters have been drunk, the songs sung, the stories read, the prayers said, the hugs and kisses dished out, and Rich and I shut the door and give each other that raised-eyebrows I-can’t-believe-how-long-that-takes-every-night look. And we go downstairs and raid the kitchen for the junkiest thing in the house (which unless it’s the day of grocery shopping is usually something lame like hot chocolate because all the best junk was consumed the night of grocery shopping) and open the laptop to… Read More

September 9, 2014June 13, 2016

Rich’s Thoughts on Companionship Inventory

You may think by the title, that this post is written by Rich. You would be wrong 🙂 Me (Celeste) again. Don’t worry, you’ll hear from him soon enough. A few things you may not know about Rich: he has superman calf muscles (seriously, they’re out of control), we’ve yet to find a limit to the amount of eggnog Rich can drink in a day (we can’t be dishing out all our grocery bill on eggnog, so the limit has yet to have a quantifiable test), and he used to be a dear abby-ist of sorts. For a number of… Read More

September 3, 2014June 13, 2016

Improving Your Marriage With Weekly Companionship Inventory

Here are some questions you and your spouse should be asking each other each week.

Here is how to hold a weekly marriage inventory with your spouse each week. Ok, are you guys ready for this? I’m about to hit you with the very best marital advice we have. The big guns. Just wanted to make sure you’re ready and aware- this is the best we’ve got to offer. All downhill from here…. Here goes. Have companionship inventory every week. Allow me to explain: Just prior to when Rich and I started dating I was serving a mission for the LDS church in Slovenia. You’re familiar with LDS missionaries I assume? You know- go… Read More