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• blogging

  This would be a good place for something profound

  05.31.10 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Tomorrow we begin our forty-day electricity fast. I feel like there were several things I meant to do and write and plan for before this started, but today was busy with family and barbecuing and recovering from the CBC and shrugging when my mom couldn’t stop remarking on how large my 28-week belly looks. I [...]

• kids, sex

  Rude awakening

  05.28.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Let me preface this by saying that rarely has my husband been so attractive to me. First he mopped the floors and washed the dishes after a long day of work and his (exhausting) weekly basketball game. Then he told me, after watching the kids for the first of three days, that whenever he has [...]

• utah, you can skip this one dad

  Confession time, and a penance

  05.27.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Confession: I like Walmart, and I shop there regularly (it helps that we have a brand-new store, with un-sullen workers, so far). I know it’s the nadir of taste, style, social conscience, and seven other sins, but I am unashamed. And I really think that unless you’ve lived for a couple years in a third-world [...]

• sisters

  Kitchen Wisdom

  05.25.10 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Lately I’ve found myself teaching my oldest girl important life lessons, like how to make bread and how to  prepare a Mountain Dew with just the right amount of ice and a straw (for me), and how to clean the bathrooms — things I want her to know before the new baby comes so she [...]

• Being Mormon

  I love to see the temple

  05.23.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I don’t know why this is slightly out of focus. I’d blame the camera, but it, like so much involving technology, is probably user-error. I thought about taping it again (or whatever the word is, memory-carding it?), but the first take is usually the best. I love how Spot says “sacred” in the last sentence. [...]

• motherhood

  How I came to terms with motherhood

  05.21.10 | Permalink | 17 Comments

  (today) (right this moment) (for now, anyway). Since becoming a mother nine and a half years ago, I’ve been a working mom, a living-overseas mom, a going-to-school-and-working-a-bit mom, and a stay-at-home mom. It was funner and more-easily-rewarding to be any of those things than a stay-at-home mom. When I railed against “motherhood” in my not-finer [...]

• Family

  Solo

  05.18.10 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  The take-the-pedals-off, lower-the-seat, and let-them-scoot method really works. Susan spent probably a total of thirty minutes, last fall and this spring, practicing balancing on her bike. This is her third run with the pedals back on. I love her oblivious pedaling away, knees all scrunched up, and Tom’s watchful scurrying behind her. Sometimes when I’m [...]

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