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• Family, feminism

  Feminism and the family dinner

  04.29.13 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  On Friday as I walked the girls home from school, Callie said she had something to talk about later. She resisted my prodding to talk about it right then, and in the after-school shuffle and Friday-night pizza making, I completely forgot about it. I asked Avery to say the prayer over our dinner, and then [...]

• Family

  Family motto

  09.05.12 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  A quick look at Pinterest will tell you that it’s important to choose a family motto or theme. Here are some that we considered: (Latin) “Invicta” “Tempus Fugit” (in Mrs. Shinn voice) (Joan of Arc) “Work and God will work also” (scriptural) “Awake, awake, Deborah!” Judges 5:12 “Cheerfully do all things” D&C 123:17 “To me [...]

• Family

  Happy Valentine’s Day, Mr. Johnson (and assorted others)

  02.14.12 | Permalink | 1 Comment

    I dig the cynical disdain for the holiday of lovers, I do. But it does seem to brighten my gray February a little, no matterhow not-Anthropologie-worthy my decor is and how not-Family-Fun-worthy my breakfast is. I had intended to get up and make those apple ring pancakes I found on pinterest, but then I slept in [...]

• daughters, Family, motherhood, mothering daughters

  What would Marilla do?

  01.26.12 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I am getting old. I am the mom in the book instead of the coming-of-age heroine. I am Mrs. Bennet clucking over five husband-less girls. I am Marilla Cuthbert, mopping the kitchen floor, weeping, after seeing Anne off to Queens while her pretty bosom friend goes on a picnic with cousins. I am the comfortable marriage and [...]

• 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.

• 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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