November 2011

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• Family

  fixing the Jesse Tree

  11.30.11 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I am not a radical feminist, probably because I usually sublimate my frustration in reading romance novels (and no, that’s not an oxymoron), but at a recent family scripture study, Tom pointed out that I was just being crabby with my insistence on substituting feminine pronouns and complaining that in 2 Nephi it says “Adam [...]

• Family

  Thankful for

  11.24.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Cooking with mom, chocolate covered pilgrim hats and dogs to clean my fingers.

• baby Molly, motherhood

  I got this

  11.22.11 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Tom startled me awake at 1 am to ask where the humidifier was. He handed me the baby, fresh from a stint in the freezer. Her breathing was better, but she needed some comfort and he had more work to finish before coming to bed. Molly went back to her crib for awhile, but I [...]

• baby Molly

  Gender imprinting

  11.20.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I swear this is nature not nurture as a) I spend 10 hours reading on my phone for every minute talking on it, and b) it was her idea to start wearing Callie’s shoes. Sorry about the poor quality. My phone takes great pictures, but I don’t know about the videos. At least it adds [...]

• childhood, motherhood

  parallel lives

  11.17.11 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  At Chick-fil-A I just ran into a girl I played clarinet with in the band when I was in ninth grade. She married a boy from my neighborhood and we each thought the other was still living outside Utah, but we’re not, we’re living twenty minutes apart, an hour from our hometown.  She has four kids, I [...]

• Being Mormon, christmas, Family, holidays

  A Mormon Jesse Tree: Witnesses and Types of Christ

  11.16.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I’ve got a mild case of HAD this year — Holiday Affective Disorder, possibly triggered by the marathon month of Halloween (remember the innocent days of a 2-hour Halloween?). I’m tempted to serve chicken nuggets for Thanksgiving and to let my children off the hook for dish chores (for the day) as their “big” Christmas [...]