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January 2011

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• Being Mormon

  Today made up for all the Sundays I spend rolling my eyes

  01.30.11 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  It has been a long time since I sat in Sunday School with hot tears splashing down onto my blouse, a long time since I wanted to jump up with a joyful shout and point and say — That was for ME! And I hadn’t even asked the question/said the prayer out loud. We read [...]

• mothering daughters, Sally

  Probably can’t claim to be 25 anymore

  01.29.11 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Avery is 10 today. I could write some tear jerker about how she was the one who made me a Mom all those years ago and how sweet she is despite remembering (and mentioning often) how I whacked her with a hairbrush when she was four. But I’ll just say I’m glad my baby ticker [...]

• breastfeeding

  Breastfeeding in public: what’s the big deal?

  01.28.11 | Permalink | 41 Comments

  Breastfeeding is one of those things that I feel differently about, depending on who I’m talking to. My dad reported on a continuing medical education thingie they had at work (“Most of them are yawners”) with a lactation chief and a neonatology chief (“one of the best lectures I’ve been to”). He said he was [...]

• Sunday family pictures

  Pork roast pearls

  01.24.11 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  I love how the act of preparing to worship our Savior unites us as a family and fills our souls with joy every Sunday morning. I’ve got a cold, so I took Molly home after the first hour. Chrysanthemum and I were talking about how whenever we’re home sick from church we feel guilty (or [...]

• odds and ends

  Odds and (week)Ends

  01.22.11 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  1. I was the pronouncer at Callie’s school’s spelling bee yesterday. It was a profound celebration of American English orthography, but I was relieved when it was over and the very-worried-looking champion crowned. 2. It wasn’t at all an exorcising of the time I was in the school spelling bee and tied for 2nd place [...]

• motherhood

  Spaghetti for breakfast, or, If Daedalus was a stay-at-home mom

  01.20.11 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  Yesterday I was rocking the wax wings. I ground wheat for bread, I was happy with something I’d written. I let Tom sleep in while I took Avery to school, I got Callie into her uniform on time. I made  a video of Molly nursing in one take and didn’t even mind Lucy’s “help.” Feeling [...]

• Family

  I don’t know WHY she’s worried about finding a man . . .

  01.19.11 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  My sister Karin spent the night at our house for the Martin Luther King, jr holiday. I made it a true day of service by listening compassionately to her dating woes (she’s twenty-one! and prospect-less!) and giving her my finest advice: Buck up, Baby! One day you’ll meet someone and all your fears about not [...]

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