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• motherhood

  A Woman’s Right to Choose

  10.16.08 | Permalink | 37 Comments

  Finding out that someone you like and admire is pro-choice or pro-life is like finding out that they enjoy kicking puppies or like to lock their daughters in the basement. It’s surprising and unsettling to discover that a friend does not agree with you on something so fundamental as the right to choose or the [...]

• parenting

  Why I don’t read parenting books

  10.12.08 | Permalink | 25 Comments

  We just got back from a quick trip to Idaho and Yellowstone, where we visited friends who are some of the best parents I know. Not only do they love their kids, they like them too. I know! Isn’t it enough that we love our kids: instinctively, irrationally, unconditionally? Must we also LIKE them, in [...]

• Sally

  Tell us how you really feel, Sally

  09.23.08 | Permalink | 35 Comments

  Sally drew this during church last Sunday. Such a sweet child. Stumble This! For more posts like this, subscribe to What About Mom. Check out more Wordless Wednesdays.

• motherhood

  Your kisses don’t make it better anymore; only a bandaid makes it all better.

  09.19.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Usually I like to think that I’m exaggerating when I talk about a fault of mine. No one could be THAT bad a mom or a wife or a school chauffeur-er, but lately I’ve realized that I really am THAT bad, and I can no longer point out that things COULD BE WORSE by pretending [...]

• book review

  Once upon a time (or, Susan’s book pick: Fanny’s Dream by Caralyn Buehner and Mark Buehner)

  09.16.08 | Permalink | 37 Comments

  Sometimes I fantasize about organizing a “too much stuff” intervention for my parents. I try to tell them, nicely, that we have libraries, Blockbuster, and WalMart for a reason: so we don’t have to stockpile every last ding-dang thing in our own homes. But ever since Sally learned how to read, it’s been kind of [...]

• summer

  Have we met before?

  09.06.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  When I was a little girl, I wanted to marry a good Mormon boy from a large Mormon family, and in the summers, we would flit from one large family reunion to another. Instead I got Dick, who, after surviving my dad’s family’s reunion, wanted to know whether family reunions were a common thing in [...]

• motherhood, politics

  Sarah Palin at the RNC (I feel so horribly betrayed)

  09.03.08 | Permalink | 31 Comments

  At first I was skeptical about Sarah Palin. I even wrote a post called Can a stay-at-home mom be Pro-Palin? And then I watched her speech last week. Why didn’t anyone tell me that a woman can have it all? I feel like everything I’ve ever known about what a woman can be and should [...]

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