Supposed 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 ArticleI Can Be Slow On The Uptake
What makes a quiet afternoon, baby sleeping, kids at school, nondescript in the passing minutes, unoriginal in the weather, seem suddenly a sacred thing? I think it is the quiet. That it affords me a...
View ArticleWhat Would Jesus Do?
Today’s gust post comes from Kristin Wilson, who adores children, chocolate, and running, which helps burn off the chocolate and keeps her sane for the children. A California native, she fell for a...
View ArticleOn Being a Specialist
Today’s guest post comes from Lisa Rumsey Harris, who has been working on two big projects this Fall: baby girl number #3, due January 28, and the release of her first novel, The Unlikely Gift of...
View ArticleTurn off your phone/iPad/game and Listen!
Settling into the back row for our third musical concert in as many days, my little daughter, bathed and dressed in pajamas whined, “I’m bored.” Without hesitation, I handed her my iPhone and she...
View ArticleLove-in-Waiting
Rachel Jeffcoat studied English at Oxford University a few light-years ago. These days she works as a freelance writer and editor, in between finger painting and feeding the ducks with her boisterous...
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...
View ArticleBook Review: Parenting with Spiritual Power by Julie Nelson
Title: Parenting with Spiritual Power Author: Julie K. Nelson When I started thinking about getting pregnant for the first time, one of the first things I did was to buy What to Expect When You’re...
View ArticleOne Mom’s Trash is Usually Some Kid’s Treasure
Earlier this month my children and I escaped the cold, brown atmosphere of early spring in Utah for warm, sunny Las Vegas. One day we went to the Springs Preserve, an area dedicated to nature and...
View ArticleLady of Light
Becky is a Pacific Northwest transplant who married her Arizona transplant sweetheart and settled in the middle ground of Utah. She is the adoptive mom of one and hoping (and waiting for 5 years) to be...
View ArticleFinding My Balance
Please note: the opinions and experiences expressed in this blog post are my own and any statements I make about my personal experience with motherhood are not intended to invalidate or demean anyone...
View ArticleMusings on Potty Training
Kristen lives in Syracuse, Utah with her husband, Wade, and their four children. She loves to read more than anything- her favorite novel remains Jane Eyre. She wrestles to write everyday despite...
View ArticleWithout money or price
I was traveling recently with some friends, sitting in the backseat for a five-hour drive home. The two in front were discussing families, kids, and were essentially solving the problems of the...
View ArticleThe Un-Working Mom
Emily is a wife, mother, reader, and knitter. She loves national parks, dark chocolate, and the Oxford comma. She blogs sporadically at ejfalke.wordpress.com. Shortly after my second child was born,...
View Article100% 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...
View ArticleGLOBAL MOM a memoir by Melissa Dalton-Bradford
First, our book reviews tend to meet with resounding silence, so I’m posing questions at the beginning for you to think about as you read. How has living (or visiting) in different places changed your...
View ArticleMoney Madness
“Mom, how much money is in your bank account?” This was the question my son chose to spring on me the other night during the chaos of cleaning up dinner. I hesitated a bit, partly because I wasn’t sure...
View ArticleMornings are Not My Friend
I’ve been working full-time for nearly two years now and the thing I hate the most is the fact that five days of the week I have to get up, get ready, and be out the door by 8:00. Winter, summer, fall,...
View ArticleThe General Conference Family Home Evening Challenge
When General Conference rolled around last October, I realized that it was the weekend that my children were scheduled to spend all day Saturday with their father. I felt somewhat ambivalent about...
View ArticleAs Ye Have Done It to the Least of These
The author of this post lives in the Mormon corridor and owns two pianos. And a keyboard. Because even though her piano skills are Primary-song level, her children must. practice. every. day. He’s...
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