December 2010

The Archives

• Sally

  Guess which part I can take credit for

  12.20.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  (I’ll give you a hint. It rhymes with “doors.” As for the strong female warrior-in-training protagonist and the idea to portray horses so differently than how she feels about them in real life, perhaps I have not ruined her with my complacent housewife/mother example.) (That was a little feminist humor.) (Also, I don’t think she [...]

• Being Mormon, motherhood

  As you know

  12.14.10 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  I was going to write about Callie losing her first tooth (how she was afraid she had caused the wobbling in her bottom front right tooth by biting a pillow because her hands were full of blanket,  and how the tooth fairy forgot to come but she thought it was because Lucy clutched the ziplock-ed [...]

• Family, giveaway

  North Pole Express Giveaway! — Winner is Stacey!

  12.09.10 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  Yesterday we rode the Heber Valley Railroad‘s North Pole Express, and it was very winter-y and Christmas-y and old-fashioned locamotive-y. Molly gurgled and nursed in her bunny suit, Callie loved the cookies, Avery asked for seconds of the hot chocolate, and Lucy nodded and nodded wide-eyed when Santa talked to her. He was a great [...]

• motherhood

  The least

  12.03.10 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  Let’s see if I can pound this out before Molly wakes up (again; I woke her at 6 to nurse before my jogging date). Sometimes I get all twisted up inside, coiled and ready to explode because my life seems endlessly drudgeristic. I’m depressed I’m not going to graduate school or frustrated that I don’t [...]