Welcome to episode 331 of Live Happy Now.

What if you could live in a house without any grumbling, even if you have teenagers?

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking to two women who learned how to create a grumble-free life.

Amy Parker and Tricia Goyer are both moms and authors, and they teamed up for the new

children's book, The Grumbles, a story about gratitude.

It's based on Trish's own experience with challenging her family to live a grumble-free

year, and this week, they're here to tell us how this became a book and how you can use

gratitude to lose the grumbles. Amy and Trisha, welcome to Live Happy Now. Thank you so much for having us. This is fun. Well, first of all, we don't normally get two people at the same time, so this is awesome. Like, it's a, it's like a bogo for this podcast episode. It's fun for us too. Yeah. Well, I got to say this is such a cute book. And I understand that it grew out of the book that Tricia wrote, which was called the Grumble Free Year. So I guess to get this started, do you want to tell us about that book? Yeah, absolutely. The Grumble Free Year is a book that I wrote a couple of years ago ago and we had 11 people in our house. So my husband and I have adopted seven kids. My grandma lives with us too. We have older kids that are out of the house. But we had so much grumbling in the house that we knew we had to do something. So we took on the challenge of trying to go a year without

grumbling, which really we were just trying to improve. I knew it would be impossible to completely go

without grumbling, but we told the kids we would take them on a cruise if they worked on it.

We had to give them some incentive. So, you know, it was like the cheapest cruise ever, but it worked because they were

willing to work on it. And the first three or four months, I'm like, this is crazy. Nothing's

changing. But slowly over the time, the more we focus on gratitude, the more I started praising

them when they started doing it right, the more I saw a huge improvement in them.

During that time, my grandma actually broke her back.

And it was we were caring for her, but she was the best example of being grateful for us

loving on her and caring for her during that time.

And it really was an example for us.

So by the end of the year, the year we were definitely better.

And so out of that, I ended up talking with Amy.

I was on her podcast. And she's like, the grumbles. I could see this as a children's book.

And that's where the grumbles came from. Well, that is terrific. And how, though, did you go about

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