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• church, Ryan, utah

  The Honorable Graduate

  05.31.09 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  I used to say that my little brother was a good candidate for the Hitler Youth. He always pestered me about my Mountain Dew habit, and referred to my black sheep-ish status in the family. To many, I am quite, quite conservative, but within my birth family, I am, shall we say, something of a [...]

• sisters

  “And you: friendless, brainless, helpless, hopeless!”

  05.27.09 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  It has long been my goal to raise self-entertaining children. What some see as neglectful-parenting, I hail as “imaginative-exploratory-self-reliance fostering.” So I don’t really play with my kids. This is, in fact, why I had more than one kid, so that they can play with each other. You won’t find any cute posts here about [...]

• sisters

  “Congratulations. In the history of this camp, that was the most infamous, the most disgusting, the most revolting display of hooliganism we have ever had.”

  05.25.09 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  My favorite part of The Parent Trap is when the evil step-mother-to-be Vicky asks Hailey Mills and Hailey Mills if they share everything, and they say they do, and then she says “Well you give your sister her half of this,” and then slaps them across the face. I’d feel bad about liking that scene, [...]

• blogging

  When a tantrum (sadly) won’t do

  05.22.09 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  I’ve been working with a (talented, patient, spectacular) designer on my new blog header. Alma is worth every penny she charges, but I was lucky enough to promise Dick’s firstborn child (and some ad space on his blog) for most of the cost. But poor Dick. He has been my whipping boy for blog-and-all-purpose technical [...]

• sisters

  We are NOT calling them Calvin and Luke

  05.20.09 | Permalink | 20 Comments

  Since good leadership is all about delegation, Dick is in charge of putting the kids to bed. But Dick is a little bit soft-hearted (not to be confused with soft-headed, though they’re not exactly mutually exclusive, are they?). Which means he doesn’t enforce vegetables before dessert, and that he has always been morally opposed to [...]

• motherhood

  Even if they did use MILK chocolate

  05.13.09 | Permalink | 33 Comments

  Last Sunday I stayed home from church with a pink-eyed and minor-ear-infectioned Susan. It was no hardship to abstain from my least-favorite service of the year, though Dick reported that our congregation’s appointed Mother-praisers did an above-average job. (I know I should say I missed hearing the kids sing Mother Dear I love You So, [...]

• childhood

  “If you got your point across so well, how come you only got 6 comments?”

  05.11.09 | Permalink | 22 Comments

  Sometimes I absolutely hate writing, and at times like that I wonder why on earth I bother, because it’s not like the world needs another maybe-sometime-aspiring writer. H-E-Double-Dandelions NO, we do not need one more person saying “If only I had time, I’d love to write.” Dick didn’t like my Rory post, the post that [...]

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