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• Sally, scout, sisters

  No wonder I never get Molly’s name right on the first try

  06.14.11 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  My mom says Molly doesn’t look much like my other kids. To me she looks exactly like them and only like herself. (I am getting too fond of the “this and exactly the opposite of that” construction, I know.) My Dad says (in a letter to my brother on his mission in Texas) that Molly [...]

• sisters, Susan

  A mess of potage (Go Cougars!)

  10.09.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  My good friend Tara and her son are spending the weekend with us. Tara drove up from Arizona to attend classes from the very talented designer of my header, Alma Loveland, and to take in the BYU Homecoming football game. (It’s unfair that basketball doesn’t get homecoming festivities, isn’t it?) (And what about badminton?) Tara [...]

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  Multi-tasking big sister helper girls

  10.01.10 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Avery has still not changed a diaper, but she’s willing to wear the baby for brief periods of time, as long as I keep her supplied with books and apples: Callie usually ends up holding Molly in the koala position: A still shot could never do justice to the way Lucy interacts with baby Molly, [...]

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  Kitchen Wisdom

  05.25.10 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Lately I’ve found myself teaching my oldest girl important life lessons, like how to make bread and how to  prepare a Mountain Dew with just the right amount of ice and a straw (for me), and how to clean the bathrooms — things I want her to know before the new baby comes so she [...]

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  Push-Pull

  11.14.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  The domesticity in this house, the past few days, is staggering. I stirred my compost and ground wheat. I baked bread and made yogurt. We planted bulbs (allium, tulips, hyacinth, and daffodils). We carved our pumpkin, finally, and toasted the seeds. We made gingerbread girls (and pigs, ducks, chickens, cows, and lambs). I laundered the [...]

• photography, sisters

  Camera: check, Models: check, Skill: only a matter of time, maybe

  09.17.09 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  I got a new camera for the unique purpose of taking cute photos of my kids (and because Best Buy had no-interest financing and Mr. Bennet still felt bad about the belated Valentine’s Day camera I returned last February.) In August Tara and I road-tripped to San Francisco by way of Vegas (not a very [...]

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  “And you: friendless, brainless, helpless, hopeless!”

  05.27.09 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  It has long been my goal to raise self-entertaining children. What some see as neglectful-parenting, I hail as “imaginative-exploratory-self-reliance fostering.” So I don’t really play with my kids. This is, in fact, why I had more than one kid, so that they can play with each other. You won’t find any cute posts here about [...]

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