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• 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 [...]

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  My advice to mothers everywhere

  12.27.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Don’t get sick. Ever, but especially during the Christmas holidays, and especially when first one, then another, and finally the last of your children gets sick too. Just don’t. Because if Momma can’t take care of herself because she feels like lying down and dying, it’s a fair bet that she won’t feel like taking [...]

• christmas, health, writing

  “My whole soul burns most ardently after it”

  12.23.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Through a series of serendipitous events, Dick and I went to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s Ring Christmas Bells concert last weekend. It was being filmed for PBS, and it was the fanciest performance I’ve been to in a long time. Perhaps ever. But as I watched the dancers, in odd (but modest!) angel-nun costumes, and [...]

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  The mom who killed Christmas (almost)

  12.16.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  I heard on NPR today that Charles Dickens was the man who invented Christmas after A Christmas Carol encouraged people to celebrate with family and goodwill and Rizzo the Rat. Apparently the Puritans and Protestant Reformerators had banned Christmas celebrations in both England and the U.S. at various times because it was too commercial. (and [...]

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  Last Christmas I wa-a-sn’t strong

  11.08.08 | Permalink | 21 Comments

  Christmas is always more stressful than it should be, and now that we live in a fancy neighborhood, with Trick-r-Treating and streetlamps and such, I fear the neighbors will be distributing competitive baked goods and hand-stenciled holiday cards beginning next week. I’ve been experimenting with simple-but-stunning hand-dipped candies, and nothing is as easy or cheap [...]

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  Lucy on Christmas Day

  12.28.06 | Permalink | Comments Off

  This is a video of Spot on Christmas day with Jane in our living room. See the video of Spot

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  Pink Christmas

  12.25.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Grandpa David and Sean, Liz and Rachel Carey came over to spend Christmas day with us. Sally and Susan got some awesome …pink… presents. Dick got a bunch of weight-loss tools and I got some cool Wolfgang Puck knives. hmmm… The girls also got bathtub paints… Dick and Spot were a little tired…