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Being Mormon, daughters, Sally
#Mormsandmakeup (hashtag by @ThatFig)
06.29.11 | Permalink | 37 CommentsA 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 [...]
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Being Mormon
The Church Handbook of Instructions versus the Unwritten Order of Things
06.18.11 | Permalink | 9 CommentsThe 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 [...]
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Being Mormon, women
Maybe we could just call it Woman’s Day?
05.11.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI don’t hate Mother’s Day like I used to. For one, it was a lame animosity on my part, petty and resentful and small, un-acknowledging of how blessed I am to be a mother to four healthy daughters. And for two, Tom buys me gardening stuff for Mother’s Day, and helps me build ever-more garden [...]
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Being Mormon, daughters, friends, Sally
Three can be the loneliest number
04.22.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsYesterday Avery and I had a long talk that left us in tears at the same time it made me glad to be here, glad to be her mother. My daughter has a “best friend” who will apparently think she is weak and a crybaby if she does not join her in being mean to [...]
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Being Mormon
I’m sorry, Donny, crooning “Puppy Love” to screaming teenage girls is not the same as knocking doors in Siberia
03.03.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsI probably should not say anything about this because to be perfectly honest, I think college sports are only slightly less-worthless to humanity than pro sports are. In other words, right up there with Muammar Qaddafi’s ego in the amount of good they have done the world. But there seems to be some confusion. Jimmer [...]
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Being Mormon, family history, grandparents, personal history
If only the gaps in my knowledge were so easily filled
02.21.11 | Permalink | 9 CommentsEveryone came over for dinner last night. Usually every third week it’s my parents and their kids and grandkids at our house for Sunday dinner. Tonight both sets of my grandparents wanted to see my dad’s recovery for themselves. (He has cancer, he’s getting aggressive treatment, and he’s looking good since shaving his off-work-for-surgery beard–and [...]
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Being Mormon
Today made up for all the Sundays I spend rolling my eyes
01.30.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsIt 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 [...]
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