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 [...]
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 [...]
Cooking with mom, chocolate covered pilgrim hats and dogs to clean my fingers.
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 [...]
Girl drama in the neighborhood this evening. Callie walked down the street and found Beatrice* reading a note from Hero* after an unspecified fight. The note called Beatrice “pissy.” Callie (who has previously liked both Beatrice and Hero equally) helped Beatrice write her response and delivered the second note. I heard about it when Hero’s [...]
1. I used to think that the Tom Hanks movie, The Money Pit, was a gross exaggeration of the perils of home improvement, but according to my basement finishing experience, it’s actually a glitter-encrusted fairytale in rose-colored glasses of the glamour and ease of fixing crap up. 2. I used to wonder how anyone who [...]
One of my favorite cousins arrived in Afghanistan. I don’t have anything to say about that but I had to say it. He is there. Several of my cousins serve in the military. My brother is in the Air Force. We’re lucky, for them and for us, that they are doctors and engineers and specialists, [...]
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