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December 2009

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• pregnancy

  Psychologically, I feel very . . . confused*

  12.28.09 | Permalink | 35 Comments

  In the past couple of weeks, Spot and Susan have each asked me if I had a baby in my tummy, and I reminded them that I do not anymore. When Spot asked me, we were sitting on the couch, and I saw again the pregnancy test I’d taken the night before, the test that [...]

• motherhood

  Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

  12.23.09 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  On Monday Susan almost got ran over by a minivan in the parking lot of Costco. It was lunchtime, I had just picked up the girls from preschool, Susan was in dire need of the potty, I was in a rush to pick up some photo prints and get back up the hill (nine miles) [...]

• homeschool, school

  Half-day

  12.23.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Sally tells me today is the best day of her life. I express surprise, and she says, “Is it not the best day of your life too?” I tell her maybe not the best, but certainly a good day, I hope, and why is it the best day of her life? Because she doesn’t have [...]

• motherhood

  Snow Angels

  12.13.09 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  Today I told Dick: the thing I hated most about my childhood was having to be quiet when my dad needed to sleep. It was selfish. My dad was in a Navy residency program back in the draconian doctor days, and he needed his sleep. I don’t even remember how often we had to be [...]

• blogging

  Follow-up to Motherlode Story; Thoughts on the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers

  12.11.09 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  There’s a “rest of the story” on Motherlode today, and the picture it paints, in the words of the father and wife involved in the “dirty little secret” post from earlier this week, is heartbreaking, and very sympathy-inducing. Basically, the father was served with papers a few months into his marriage, telling him he was [...]

• Being Mormon, church

  A Mormon Jesse Tree: Witnesses and Types of Christ

  12.11.09 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  I first heard of a Jesse Tree on Rocks in My Dryer last year, and I immediately wanted to create a Mormon version. I like that traditional Jesse Trees emphasize Old Testament prophecies of Jesus Christ; I want my kids to be as familiar with Bible stories as they are with the Book of Mormon [...]

• Family

  It doesn’t have to be that way

  12.09.09 | Permalink | 32 Comments

  Today’s Motherlode blog is fairly appalling to me. It’s a guest post by a lady who has been happily married for six years, mother to a 2-year old and a baby. Her family’s “dirty secret” is that her husband has an illegitimate 10 year-old son from a previous relationship. The father pays child support, but [...]

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