Lessons Learned from Mom Archives | Official Site for Heather Justesen and Heather Tullis https://heathersnotes.com/category/lessons-learned-from-mom/ Mystery to Make Your Heart Race | Romance to Make You Sigh Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:18:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://heathersnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/cropped-book-icon-32x32.png Lessons Learned from Mom Archives | Official Site for Heather Justesen and Heather Tullis https://heathersnotes.com/category/lessons-learned-from-mom/ 32 32 Day 25: Lessons Learned from Mom https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-25-lessons-learned-from-mom/ Sun, 31 May 2009 08:58:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/day-25-lessons-learned-from-mo/ Day 25: Finish what you start. Little did I realize what a project this 25 lessons would end up being. My mom has taught me hundreds of things, 25 should have been easy, but it’s amazing how they tend to overlap. Also, as soon as I sat down to write, everything seemed to fly from […]

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]]> Day 24: Lessons Learned from Mom https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-24-lessons-learned-from-mom/ Sun, 31 May 2009 02:59:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/day-24-lessons-learned-from-mo/ Day 24: Cake Decorating I think I’ve mentioned that my mom took a cake decorating class when I was a kid, and in those early years when she asn’t working 60+ hours a week for the business we had lots of fun cakes. As we aged and she got insanely busy the cakes became more […]

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]]> Day 23: Lessons Learned from Mom https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-23-lessons-learned-from-mom/ Sat, 30 May 2009 09:27:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/day-23-lessons-learned-from-mo/ Day 23: Keep a Record For as long as I can remember my mom has kept a journal. When I was young I believe she kept more than one, capturing many of the crazy and funny things each of the kids did when we were little and still cute. I admit, I’ve been rather slackerly […]

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]]> Day 22: Lessons Learned from Mom https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-22-lessons-learned-from-mom/ Fri, 29 May 2009 09:17:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/day-22-lessons-learned-from-mo/ Day 22: Keep a Full Pantry For as long as I can remember my mom has had some kind of food storage. We were lucky that every place I remember living (other than that tiny place we lived in for six weeks when we first moved to town) had space for storage–even the tiny little […]

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]]> Day 21: Lessons Learned from Mom https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-21-lessons-learned-from-mom/ Thu, 28 May 2009 07:35:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/day-21-lessons-learned-from-mo/ Day 21: Finding the Gifts is Half the Fun I don’t know about you, but we have some interesting Christmas traditions–one of which I am sure most people have never even considered. Way back when my parents had a super tight Christmas with almost no money for gifts for them wild brood. What they ended […]

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]]> Day 20: Lessons Learned from Mom https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-20-lessons-learned-from-mom/ Wed, 27 May 2009 10:18:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/day-20-lessons-learned-from-mo/ Day 20: Some of the Best Things in Life Don’t Cost Much When I think of my childhood, I remember lots of summer nights playing “becca” (a twisted kind of hide and seek that is best when there are lots of things to hide behind. I have no idea where this game originated. Maybe my […]

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]]> Day 19: Lessons Learned from Mom https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-19-lessons-learned-from-mom/ https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-19-lessons-learned-from-mom/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 09:57:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/day-19-lessons-learned-from-mo/ Day 19: Gardens are Great Yeah, so if you’ve read my blog before, you probably noticed that I write about gardening a lot. Well, maybe not so much lately, because I’m a total slacker–I have blogs planned, I just need to squeeze them into my day. But anyway, some of my earliest memories are of […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-19-lessons-learned-from-mom/feed/ 3 Day 18: Lessons Learned from Mom https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-18-lessons-learned-from-mom/ https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-18-lessons-learned-from-mom/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 09:19:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/day-18-lessons-learned-from-mo/ Day 18: Judge Not Okay, first, I need to quailfy that statement. When I had foster kids I had a teenager who was upset one of the neighbors wouldn’t let their daughter go with my foster daughter and her mom to a concert. She was upset because she felt like my neighbor was judging her […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-18-lessons-learned-from-mom/feed/ 3 Day 17: Lessons Learned from Mom https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-17-lessons-learned-from-mom/ https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-17-lessons-learned-from-mom/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 08:46:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/day-17-lessons-learned-from-mo/ Day 17: Cinnamon Rolls were Invented for Long Trips Okay so maybe that’s not true, maybe they were just invented because they are dang good, but in any case, we often had them on campouts or on long car rides, especially if we were going to leave really early in the morning. My mom makes […]

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]]> https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-17-lessons-learned-from-mom/feed/ 1 Day 16: Lessons Learned From Mom https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-16-lessons-learned-from-mom/ https://heathersnotes.com/2009/05/day-16-lessons-learned-from-mom/#comments Sat, 23 May 2009 08:44:00 +0000 https://heathersnotes.com/day-16-lessons-learned-from-mo/ Day 16: There’s Always Room for Music I did mention, didn’t I that we used to sing when we went on long car rides. My poor husband thinks we’re all a bit nuts, and gives me worried sideways looks when I try to liven up our trips by singing. Well, he used to, I think […]

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