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• motherhood

  I promise this isn’t becoming a dream journal. Stay with me, this one actually makes sense

  02.28.10 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  I went to bed at 8 p.m. last night, and fell asleep immediately. I woke up a couple times to pee, and the second time, I reminded myself that I need to wake up early to prepare my little thing about sacrifice to share in Sunday School (we’re on Abraham and Isaac this week). And [...]

• daughters, motherhood

  Innocent

  02.25.10 | Permalink | 21 Comments

  Last Sunday we waited in the foyer after church. Spot danced around me, describing the people from the next congregation, who were leaving the chapel in ones and twos for the bathroom, a drink, a tithing envelope. “That’s a man with a mustache” she chanted (quietly). “That’s a boy with a vest.” “That’s a big [...]

• women

  The deep pink hat society

  02.23.10 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  A week ago, I was walking to Chrysanthemum’s house for our morning constitutional, and I waved to another friend driving by in her pristine black minivan. She is the kind of lady (Barbie) who I would normally not bother to make friends with because she is too-perfect looking (I am a reverse-appearance snob), but I [...]

• pregnancy

  HELLO Second Trimester

  02.22.10 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  Two words: Sex dreams. Discuss. (not your husband) (Pierce Brosnan — younger, like in The Thomas Crown Affair or James Bond) (HOT, oh my) (okay, if I were conscious and choosing these things it’d be Russell Crowe (the Gladiator one, not the puffy Insider one) or Taylor Lautner’s abs — he could wear a paper [...]

• marriage, money

  Going to bed angry

  02.20.10 | Permalink | 28 Comments

  You know how they say the number one thing married people fight about is money? I hate that it is the number one thing that Tom and I fight about too, because we don’t have one of those marriages. We have a happy marriage. But bring out the budget talk, or, worse, the Freelance Eviscerator [...]

• breastfeeding

  Breasts and Burqas

  02.17.10 | Permalink | 63 Comments

  *This post is not about whether you breast or bottle feed; as long as you make a thoughtful and informed decision, who cares? — unless your thoughts or information are wrong, of course, but really — This is about cultural norms of modesty(?), and why in the heck is Utah so weird? My mom is [...]

• LDS Church, marriage

  The thing I love best about Tom

  02.15.10 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Today at church I entertained some (quite probably blasphemous) thoughts. I was bursting to share them, but I restrained myself throughout the beautiful, music playing softly in the background lesson on Jesus Christ, our chosen Leader and Savior. As soon was we walked in the door afterwards, rushing to change into comfortable clothes (pajamas) and [...]

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