December 2011

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• Being Mormon

  I’m still bummed about A Capella, Tracey

  12.08.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I’m not very musical, despite the obligatory piano lessons in my tweens. But I wrote some words for Esther and Deborah verses for the Jesse Tree. Now for Abish to the tune of Army of Helaman . . .   Esther’s Courage (to Nephi’s Courage) The Lord commanded Esther to go and wed the king Haman [...]

• motherhood, mothering daughters

  Maybe I’ll let her drive at thirteen

  12.08.11 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Every birthday and Christmas for the past two years, I’ve offered to let Avery get her ears pierced. Every time she has declined, asking instead for books and swim stuff and roller blades and, this year, a punching bag. This morning we had a bra crisis (note: best to own at least two of the acceptable variety at all [...]

• baby Molly

  Monkey sign

  12.07.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I’ve always been too lazy to teach my babies sign language (well, and to learn it myself). Good old-fashioned grunting and pointing work for us. But at eleven months, Avery started curling her arm in whenever we prompted her to say please. We worried about her synapses until we realized we were offering her organic cheerios/diluted juice/twizzlers and then curling our own [...]

• childbirth, labor & delivery, motherhood, pregnancy

  Reviewing Molly’s birth, a natural childbirth testimony

  12.04.11 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I was talking to my cousin for the first time yesterday. That sounds pretty lame, but I have about seventy first cousins and this was the wife of a cousin several years younger than me. She is almost due with their second child, and it turns out she is seeing the American Fork midwives like [...]