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May 2010

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• Being Mormon, women

  Honorable Mention: By name

  05.16.10 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  When I started seminary in ninth grade, our teacher, a traditionalist, an earnest-but-uninspiring man, told us that the story of the Old Testament was about covenants and inheritance, about first sons and birthright and how the Lord’s chosen usually turned out not to be the first son anyway, because the first son sold his birthright [...]

• Family

  The Book of Jochebed

  05.15.10 | Permalink | Comments Off

  The Book of Jochebed* When I was a little girl, I pestered my mother to read me the story of Sarah and Isaac one more time. I liked the idea of a mother wanting a baby so badly, of a father wanting a baby so badly, of a baby born to parents like that. Children [...]

• just stuff

  Tell me there’s a record for that

  05.13.10 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  Last night set a record for number of times getting up to pee. Where did all that liquid come from? I almost expected my eyeballs to be limp and slack in their sockets by morning. I’ve also started having numb hands at night. Tara had pain with her numb hands (if I remember rightly) and [...]

• homeschool

  To school or not

  05.12.10 | Permalink | 21 Comments

  Last week I got a call that excited me almost more than my college admission letter fifteen years ago. Susan had won the lottery to go to our local charter school. I know people who’ve been applying ever since they moved out here, six years ago, to this school. So it really was quite a [...]

• motherhood

  Burdened

  05.10.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I gave up some of my angst about Mother’s Day this year, by thinking more as a woman with a nice mother than as a mother myself and my own motherhood issues. That sounds sanctimonious, as if I was thinking of others and forgetting myself, which isn’t what I mean, more that I entertained neither [...]

• this is why I had kids

  Too long for Twitter

  05.04.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Spot: I hate boys. Only Daddy and Skippy. And Grandpa and Uncle Ryan. I love them. Susan: WHAT ABOUT GOD AND JESUS?? You know they are boys, right? Spot: I hate them. Susan: (runs to me) Mom, Spot says she hates God and Jesus. (Waits in expectant anticipation of righteous indignation while I type furiously [...]

• Being Mormon, blogging

  Every little thing you do is grating

  05.02.10 | Permalink | 18 Comments

  There are so many things I want to write about (Susan’s experience learning to read and tie her shoe left-handed, my gardening/composting misadventures, Sally’s complete apparent brainwashing into the public school system at the tender age of nine, my disinclination to have Spot’s speech assessed though maybe it should be, and a hundred other little [...]

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