Are you and your family UP FOR THE CHALLENGE? If you are the family we have been looking for -- e-mail me right away!

From shopping to technology to activities, does your family do everything in excess? Are all the distractions in your life driving your family apart? Would you like to scale back and simplify - but you don't know where to begin? Do you buy too much "stuff?" Do you spend too much time grocery shopping and end up throwing away most of it at the end of the week? Are your closets packed with things you never wear or use? Does your family spend way too much money? Have you tried to cutback only to give in to your spouse and kids? Are you addicted to shopping? Is your kids room filled with toys that they don't play with? Do you shop too much? Do you have an expensive coffee or eating out habit? Is your family overscheduled? Has technology taken over your family & left you feeling more disconnected? Are you ready to challenge your family to live with less? Feeling disconnected by the technology, the activities, and the stuff that is distracting your family...and want to challenge your family to simplify for one week!

Please only e-mail me if you are willing to appear on TV...

I want to hear from all of you fans out there -- what is your all-time favorite performance you've seen on the Oprah Show?

I'm working on a show with our most jaw-dropping performances from the last 5 years, and I'm counting on you to let me know your BEST OF THE BEST!

Could your favorite be when Bon Jovi brought the fans to their feet -- or David Blaine kept us on the edge of our seats (one producer couldn't even watch as it was happening, she was so nervous she had to leave the building!)

How about Paul Potts -- the YouTube sensation who won Britain's Got Talent? Seriously, that voice just gives me chills!

Or what about when Criss Angel had the entire audience in awe? Or seeing Faith Hill and Tim McGraw perform together and you could just feel the love? Could your favorite be when we took the show to Las Vegas -- seeing icons Tina and Cher on the same stage -- or Celine's incredible show with Cirque du Soleil?

So -- now here's my confession for my all-time favorite...growing up in the 70's, I was OBSESSED (and i don't use that term lightly) -- with The Donny and Marie Show. I had the records, didn't miss one darn episode, had the dolls with the purple outfits, memorized every single song...and had the poster of Donny that I blew a kiss at before I went to sleep every night. As the oldest sister, there was about a 2-year period when i could actually bully my brother into doing whatever I wanted -- and what did I want? To perform a "show" every time my grandparents visited -- with the finale being...wait for it...

"A Little Bit Country, and A Little Bit Rock and Roll."

I would drag my little brother out every time, he would sing the Donny part and i would sing the Marie part!! I loved every minute of it! (For my brother, it pretty much was 30 minutes of torture, not to mention the cruel hours of rehearsal i made him go through). My grandparents would applaud loudly, I would take a bow, and my brother would storm off to his room for the rest of the night.

Last year when 100 OSMONDS REUNITED here at Harpo Studios and Donny and Marie performed that song -- I felt like I was 9-years old all over again...singing the song at the top of my lungs from my office!

Now it's your turn -- what performance had you dancing in your living room -- singing in your kitchen -- jumping up and applauding -- completely mesmerized -- or made your ACTUAL JAW DROP?! It's your chance to get to see it one more time...so let me know!

You know when you're watching The Oprah Winfrey Show...and you have a moment of clarity? That aha! moment, the lightbulb goes off, a shift in the way you see things from something Oprah or a guest says? Well... those of us working behind the scenes have those moments too!

Working on our "What Can You Live Without?" Experiment, was an eye-opener for me...and the rest of my team...it made us all want to simplify big time! We all started to think about what can we live without, what do we buy to make ourselves appear more successful to others, to appear more put together, more perfect...Oprah said it exactly in her "What I Know For Sure" article in March's "O" magazine..."Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life." The two moms who took our experiment were truly courageous...they dug deep to really look into their own hearts and minds to ask what were all the "things" they had surrounded themselves with about. Candice, the widowed mom who had been buying "things" to fill up herself and her family after the loss of her husband, touched a lot of you who watched the show. She told us after the show aired -- friends, family, and neighbors asked her why she hadn't told them sooner about her situation...and many thanked her for opening up about it -- because they saw themselves in her, and had been buying things they couldn't afford. (You can read their stories here if you missed them: http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/20090130_tows_livewithout)

I think if we all dig deep and are honest with ourselves, most of us will admit we do the same thing...

What did I need to look at? My obsession with beauty products...the latest, the greatest, they are all lining my bathroom shelves. Could I live without a lot of this? Of course! I've got a cleanser, a serum, a night cream, a toner, a day moisturizer with SPF, two kinds of eye cream (one for day and one for night)...seriously, I know this is over the top when I look at it from an outside perspective.

Where does some if it come from? Well, my mom was way ahead of her time in the wrinkle-fighting department. She always looked younger than her actual age...and any new article she read with a new solution for wrinkles...well, the product was in her cabinet. When she read that silk pillowcases helped because cotton pulled against your skin, guess what we both had the next week...that's right two silk pillowcases on both our beds! She started me on a eye-cream at 18 years old... Now you'll probably ask did this help, do I look my age? Is my skin glowing? I do get compliments on looking a little younger than my true age and having nice skin...and maybe that's why I've gone overboard on the products, because let's face it, we are bombarded with youth around every corner we turn and compliments make us feel good. But after this show, I think it's time for me to start putting that money to good use elsewhere and begin appreciating every line that is starting to appear on my face for what it represents...laughing so hard with my brothers I end up falling on the floor, making funny faces with my nephew, crying through a good girlie movie with my mom and supporting my best friend through a divorce. Those lines are about the moments and the experiences that make us who we are...so I'm going to try to embrace that while I put a four week ban on any new beauty products making it into my house. By the way, my mom was also ahead of her time on the sun exposure thing too...we always kept our faces out of the sun, or slathered with sunscreen when we did go out...so I'm guessing that had way more to do with our nice skin than the latest high-tech eye cream! Will I still love it when a co-worker of my younger brother says...so you're showing your younger sister around the office today? heck yes!! But at the same time, I'll remind myself when they are no longer saying those things, of something more important my mom said to me...be grateful for every single birthday you get to celebrate.

So what I want to know from all of you -- what could you live without for a week, two weeks, or a month? If you really look at your family and yourself -- what are you surrounding yourself with to keep you from connecting to your family and to what is important? What pledge do you want to make to simplify your life starting today? Tell me your story here: https://www.oprah.com/plugform.jsp?plugId=1249138