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homemaking madness

• Being Mormon, homemaking madness, motherhood

  What a mother should look like

  01.03.10 | Permalink | 38 Comments

  It took two short weeks of sitting in Sunday School together for Dick and I to paint ourselves as faith-deficient troublemakers. (At BYU, this length of time was usually unnecessary; everyone knows that English majors like to ask critical questions.) The teacher today was very nice about it. He probably made a mistake in acknowledging [...]

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  Too borgewasie I guess (comments are now open)

  03.04.09 | Permalink | 18 Comments

  (Normally I find a misspelled word to be a bit of an abomination in the eyes of all who look upon it, but bourgeoisie is one of those words that I always have to look up.) The first night Dick, Sally, and I spent in Egypt, the power went out while Sally and I were [...]

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  Be honest

  03.03.09 | Permalink | 40 Comments

  1. How big is your house? How many peoples do you have living in it? 2. How many hours a day do you spend cleaning? 3. Do you work for money in or out of the home? Do you clean more/less if (now that) you have a paying job? 4. Are you successful at getting [...]

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  Public Service Announcement: The FULL Monty *Clarified*

  01.24.09 | Permalink | 42 Comments

  A while ago there was a meme going around where people (women, as far as I know) posted pictures of themselves first thing in the morning. I think this was supposed to make us feel better about how real women really look, but mostly if made me feel fat, and creased, and like I have [...]

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  Fight the Bed Frump: Three sheets to the wind

  06.13.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  Don’t worry (or, I’m sorry), there’s nothing about sex in today’s post. Or inebriated sailors, or, as Wikipedia explains, a ship whose sheets have come loose. My brother (neither a sailor nor staggering drunk) called me earlier this week to ask my advice about sheets. He’s attending training for people who joined the Air Force [...]

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  Man Laundry

  05.27.08 | Permalink | 20 Comments

  Like the Man Cold, Man Laundry is similar to Woman Laundry, yet inexplicable in execution. Why can’t a man do laundry like a woman? It’s not a matter of intelligence, of course. Dick went to graduate school at an Ivy League Institution, but really that is nothing compared to the fact that last night he [...]