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• Being Mormon

  This will probably sound self-righteous and/or defensive, but what the heck

  06.30.11 | Permalink | 35 Comments

  (Updated: This post won’t make sense unless you read the previous one. When I said it might sound defensive or self-righteous (really I mean judgemental) it was because I feared it would sound like I am judging those who I consider to be judgemental about clothing/appearance and that it might sound defensive because it is [...]

• Being Mormon, daughters, Sally

  #Mormsandmakeup (hashtag by @ThatFig)

  06.29.11 | Permalink | 37 Comments

  A couple weeks ago the Primary President pulled me out of my Sunbeam class to talk about Avery. It had been reported to her that Avery does not sit like a lady in class, and the boys are commenting on it. I will note first that my daughters dress even more modestly than I did [...]

• fatherhood, motherhood, parenting

  Attack of the Sanctidaddy

  06.20.11 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  A couple days before Father’s Day, I read the CNN article A father’s day wish: Dads, wake the hell up, which at some point on Saturday had been shared on Facebook over 55,ooo times. It’s basically a rallying cry for fathers to spend more time with their kids, and to appreciate their stay-at-home wives more. [...]

• Being Mormon

  The Church Handbook of Instructions versus the Unwritten Order of Things

  06.18.11 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  The clerk called to ask Tom and I to give the prayers in Sacrament Meeting last week. I told Tom I’d do it as long as I could give the opening prayer.* Tom said the clerk said that was fine, and we were on. And then we forgot. But through some weird karmic time warp [...]

• Family

  Stinkbug

  06.16.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

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• Sally, scout, sisters

  No wonder I never get Molly’s name right on the first try

  06.14.11 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  My mom says Molly doesn’t look much like my other kids. To me she looks exactly like them and only like herself. (I am getting too fond of the “this and exactly the opposite of that” construction, I know.) My Dad says (in a letter to my brother on his mission in Texas) that Molly [...]

• marriage

  Lucky Thirteen

  06.13.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Here is my first world problem a few months ago: my stupid iPod Touch keeps going offline so I can’t watch my shows and surf my interwebs and buy more ebooks. I tell myself this isn’t a big problem, of course it isn’t, and then I think how this little rectangle of metal and glass [...]

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