Moments
Today’s guest post comes from Cami Kesler. Cami is married to her college sweetheart and is the mother of three sweet girls and owner of a poodle named Nancy. She works part-time as a labor and...
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La Leche à la Hong Kong
No one warned me that we’d be hiking all day long, trekking under full blown summer sun on Lantau island, running low on water, dehydrated, sluggish, in need of shade and a toilet. Had I known all this...
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A Missionary Mother
Today’s guest post is from Marcia Stanford. Marcia lives on a tree-lined street in California with her charming husband and delightful children, who are growing up much too quickly. She is a BYU...
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Sunrise, Sunset or Where Did the Summer Go?
This morning my children will don their new school clothes and, toting new backpacks stuffed with sharpened pencils and blank notebooks, they’ll head out the door for the first day of school. And, just...
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Here’s what we need to just get out of the way: My writing is crap. Also, if another child gets out of bed to tell me something “important,” I may actually start crying. REAL tears. It’s not that I...
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Lose Yourself
Today’s guest post is from MJ Frandsen, who adventures through motherhood with a pen in her hand, a pony tail elastic around her wrist, cochlear implant batteries in her purse, and gratitude for the...
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Patriarchal Blessing
In a couple of weeks my youngest daughter will receive her patriarchal blessing. She’s only thirteen, but for six months now she has been pestering me and my husband about getting her blessing. At...
View ArticleSupposed to be Hard
Today’s guest post comes from Lee Ann Setzer, who is a sometime speech-language pathologist and the author of Gathered: A Novel of Ruth and the “Sariah McDuff” chapter book series. At the age of nine,...
View ArticleSacrament Meeting with a Toddler
Jana Porter is still pinching herself over the fact that 3 1/2 years ago she married the best man in the whole world. She and her husband, James, have a very active and adorable 18-month-old son named...
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THE MYTHS OF SMALL FAMILIES
This post is in conjunction to Shelah’s post, The Myths of Big Families. I grew up in a family with five kids. Large by non-LDS standards, but still medium sized to those in the church. Since my mom...
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First Things First
The Boy who was Raised as a Dog When our youngest was born (it’ll be 27 years ago on April 18th), my husband held Chase in his arms and cooed, “We love you so much, and you haven’t done anything cute...
View ArticlePlacement
I have a thing for place. I’m a bit fastidious about the arrangement of things, and the locations where things are set in. Now don’t get me wrong, I clutter up with the best of them (my specialty being...
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Choosing to Work During Life’s Second Half
Last September, after sixteen years of having a child at home, I watched my youngest trudge up the stairs of a big yellow school bus, his backpack filled with the accoutrements of all-day Kindergarten....
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Finding the “Perfect” Life
Today’s guest post is from Jennifer Merrill, who describes herself this way “I am a mother of four beautiful daughters, ages 8, 5, 2, and 8 months. I sometimes cringe at the amount of pink, glittery...
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Settled
Kristie is a proud graduate of Utah State University (GO AGGIES!) who also holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Utah. Her passion for finding the perfect recipe for chile verde...
View ArticleWhen Plan B Becomes Plan A
While I was growing up I didn’t really have a clear picture of what kind of career I wanted as an adult. For a number of years I wanted to be a marine biologist because I loved the ocean and was...
View ArticleFriendly Fire
The author of today’s guest post has asked to remain anonymous. Friendly fire: inadvertent firing towards one’s own or otherwise friendly forces. The words were said so quickly and with such ease I was...
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Something Worth Doing
Today’s guest post comes from Elissa East, who describes herself this way: “I am a lifelong member of the Church from Australia. Born in Perth and now living in Canberra, I have always lived in small...
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100% is Not Available
Sandra Tayler is a writer of essays, speculative fiction, children’s fiction, and blog posts. Her writing can be found at onecobble.com. When she is not writing, Sandra divides her time between four...
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Guided by the Spirit
Lorren Lemmons is an Army/dental school wife, bone marrow transplant nurse, and mother to a very energetic 8-month old. A country girl from Idaho, she is now learning to love city life in Los Angeles....
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