Mark: Jill and I are in South Bend, Indiana today doing a television interview on No More Perfect Marriages (the interview starts at 8:23 if you watch it online!) It’s a 24 hour road trip, but it gave us time to talk on the 3 hour drive from our Central Illinois...
We’d been married just about six months and lived on the west side of Indianapolis. Mark drove a delivery truck all over Indiana for his family’s glass and plastics business. He’d been in southern Indiana that day and I was waiting for him to come...
I bought the tickets months in advance. I’d heard about this event for several years but was never able to make the date work. This year it did and this Nana was taking her two granddaughters to a special tea. When we arrived, we were escorted to a round table. The...
I love chicken. I love saving money. I love buying in bulk and getting a great deal. I love any deal that keeps me out of a grocery store! I love Zaycon Fresh meats and especially their chicken because it’s the best of everything I love! Zaycon Fresh is a unique...
Jill: Summer is just around the corner and it’s likely our routines will experience some changes as we head from one season to another. Mark: Longer days in the summer allow for different ways of connecting as a couple. Jill and I enjoy sitting on the porch in...
One of the hardest parts of having cancer is making new friends only to lose way too many of them in death. I don’t believe I’ve ever grieved the loss of so many friends as I have the past three years. It happened again two weeks ago when my friend Angela passed away....
Today is Day 2 of our two-day Focus on the Family No More Perfect Marriages interviews. You can listen to Day 1 here. If you’re a Focus on the Family listener who has dropped by for the first time…welcome! We’d love to meet you…please take a...
Join the No More Perfect Date Night Community today! Find out more info at www.NoMorePerfectDateNight.com! Spring Registration is closed but we’re opening it just for Family Life, Heidi St. John podcast, and Focus on the Family listeners until Friday, May 19,...
Jill: I’m most impatient when I’m overscheduled. Mark: I tend to take things personally when I am tired. Jill: My tone of voice has exasperation in it most often when I’m running late. Mark: I lack the ability to listen well when I’m trying to do too much. Jill: Just...
Several years ago Mark and I wrote Living With Less So Your Family Has More. The book is about living with less stress, less activities, and less money than what is culturally acceptable. It’s actually about standing up to adult peer pressure and doing what is...
Mark: Jill was telling me about something that we needed to do this weekend. I was busy answering an email on my phone and I absentmindedly said a few “Uh huh’s” to feign interest in what she was saying. When she said, “Mark, did you hear me?” I had to admit that I...
Jill: Last weekend at the Hearts at Home conference, I spent some time with a woman whose marriage was at seven years of healing from her infidelity. There is still so much pain in their marriage, though, and it seems they are stuck. The more we talked the more I...
Last week we opened up our new No More Perfect Date Night Community and then we spent this past weekend with about 2700 women at the Illinois Hearts at Home conference. It was a full week and a great weekend but it will take us both about a week to recover!...
Today’s post is from my friend Patty Maier who was one of four writers who wrote the Hearts at Home Pantagraph newspaper column for many years. She and her family live in Forrest, Illinois where many different organizations benefit from her time and talents. By...
Mark: Jill and I spent a few days in Colorado Springs this past week interviewing with Focus On the Family, spending time with friends, and, of course, spending time in the mountains. One couple we spent time with have been married 36 years and they shared they had...
