Family Ever After: Simple Ways To Achieve Extraordinary Happiness With Your Ordinary Family

Family Ever After: Simple Ways To Achieve Extraordinary Happiness With Your Ordinary Family

by Michelle H. Packard
Family Ever After: Simple Ways To Achieve Extraordinary Happiness With Your Ordinary Family

Family Ever After: Simple Ways To Achieve Extraordinary Happiness With Your Ordinary Family

by Michelle H. Packard

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Overview

Women frustrated with their marriage and their family will find the help they need to achieve greater happiness and success in their family in the new book, Family Ever After: Simple Ways to Achieve Extraordinary Happiness with Your Ordinary Family by stay-at-home mom, blogger, and ordinary family leader Michelle H. Packard.

Family Ever After uses the fairytale concept that once you find your prince charming life is happily ever after. Michelle H. Packard knows this concept, while romantic, is not realistic, and she provides a practical, poignant, funny, and moving exploration of the simple ways you can help find greater happiness and satisfaction in your marriage and family. Packard says, “While the idea of happy ever after is distorted, you can, in fact, achieve a Family Ever After.”

Family Ever After brings time-tested and well-researched principles to family life to help you learn specific ways to improve your marriage and your family, whether that family is ordinary or extraordinary.
Using real-world examples of best practices and helping woman readjust their media-driven perception of what happily ever after means, Family Ever After gives readers a pragmatic, helpful, and entertaining exploration of:

  • How happiness in marriage and family life requires a more educated, real-world perspective
  • How proper prioritization and defining what’s important in marriage and family is key to success;
  • Why conflict is part of an ordinary family experience and how to peacefully resolve it;
  • How to cultivate a sense of humor;
  • How to develop a thoughtful and sincere habit of complimenting each member of your family;
  • How to improve family relationships with extended family members; and
  • Learning how to love a family member in the way they understand and accept that love

More than another how-to-have-a-perfect-family book, Family Ever After helps you gain the understanding and the practical skills of what makes ordinary families successful. Family Ever After is an essential and beautiful resource for all women who want to put more happiness in theirs and their family’s life.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781938301384
Publisher: Familius
Publication date: 04/15/2013
Pages: 194
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Michelle Packard is a mother to her four very human and totally fabulous kids. She has been married ten years and is quite taken with her guy. Michelle holds a bachelors degree in home and family science from Brigham Young University. She has spent a great deal of time working with children and young adults and finds her greatest joy is happy families. Her first book Family Ever After was published in April 2013.

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Family Ever After

A Practical Guide to Loving Your Crazy Family
By Michelle Packard

Familius

Copyright © 2013 Michelle Packard
All right reserved.

ISBN: 9781938301384

Happily ever after’s don’t just happen, they must be made. There will be unforeseen bends and bumps. No marriage is free from exhaustion, financial struggling, arguing, disappointment, tragedy or heartache. We all have mornings when we wake up and wonder, “who is this person I married, and what have I gotten myself into?” Maybe things in your family are good but could be better.  Maybe you feel like your family is broken, or maybe you think they are just so darn annoying you can’t stand to be with them. Maybe you’re a little depressed, or you always feel exhausted. There are numerous difficulties and detours on the road to ever after. Whatever your personal situation, the good news is there are things we can all do to make the burden lighter, to be happier, and to have a stronger, happier family.

Equip yourself with extra pillows when you climb onto the rickety roller coaster. Bring forgiveness, compassion, patience, humor, and extra love. You will need all the cushion you can get. Hold tight to forgiveness when your husband says something stupid, or your wife doesn’t show gratitude for your hard work. Pack some compassion for the moments your children are embarrassed at school, or your daughter doesn’t make the team. Bring patience, for the hundredth time you have to convince your kids to brush their teeth and put on their pj’s. Find humor in the mundane, and when uncertain what to do, stuff in all the extra love you have to offer. Let these soften the blows of family life’s sharp turns.  Find comfort in them; let them heal you when you think you can’t make it, and relish them when things are good.

Everyone’s picture of happily ever after is different. My happily ever after is doing dishes with my husband and simply being happy to do it, sliding down a mountain on my bum, ripping a hole in my pants while my husband laughs at me because I’m too scared to walk down. It is watching my kids splash in the pool, so care free, filling the air with deep joyful laughter. It is waking up Christmas morning to a house full of balloons, or laying on my husband’s shoulder feeling safe and protected. It is the joy that engulfs me when my family knows I love them, and the peace that comes from knowing how much they love me.  This is not the ever after I imagined years ago, as the satin folds of my white sparkling princess dress twirled around me and I was lost in my husbands pure brown eyes. Nor is what I imagined during our short honeymoon bliss, this is better because this is real. Find your vision of ever after and live it. You may be surprised to find the journey is the part you love the most.

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Table of Contents

  • The Grape Juice Experiment
  • Only You Can Change You
  • Self-personification/self-fulfilling prophesy
  • What’s Important?
  • People and Time
  • Time Management
  • Choice
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Great Expectations
  • Patience
  • Positive Attitude
  • Love Finds Love
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