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• 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

  Can a Stay-at-Home Mom be Pro-Palin? *Updated*

  09.02.08 | Permalink | 53 Comments

  When I was young and naive, I was active in the Young Republicans. We did a phone bank for some terribly important initiative, and we invited our U.S. Representative to the Spanish Fork High School. We canvassed for voter registration, and I enjoyed the American Legion Auxiliary Girls’ State. Politics, in other words, was big. [...]

• motherhood

  Do you hate being a mother so much?

  08.29.08 | Permalink | 48 Comments

  No, Dick. I hate being a stay-at-home mother SO MUCH. Sometimes. Right now. On bad days. In the morning. In the afternoon. Every time but nap-time. In an apartment. When the dishes need doing. When the kids are cranky. When I am unappreciated. When I feel guilty. When I want to write. When I want [...]

• parenting

  Battles (Not) Worth Fighting

  08.27.08 | Permalink | 23 Comments

  One of the first things you learn as a parent is that some battles are worth fighting, and others simply aren’t. For a happy home and above-average children, follow these simple rules: 1) Determine which battles are worth fighting and which aren’t. It’s nice to give the Hubs some input here, always remembering who usually [...]

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