So I keep hearing what strike me as fairly ridiculous reasons for ending relationships. I realize these are “sound bites” but that anyone buys these reasons?? Re: the Jim Carrey/Jenny McCarthy breakup, “The first thing is, when it’s not fun anymore, you need to start investigating and doing an inquiry into the relationship.” Re: the Susan Sarandon/Tim Robbins breakup, “Maybe […]
This past weekend The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held its Semi-Annual General Conference. During five 2-hour meetings over the course of Saturday and Sunday, leaders of the Church (including the prophet and the twelve apostles) gave talks on various topics relating to the gospel of Jesus Christ. I just wanted to share my thoughts on the talk […]
I’ve been on a roll with Advance Reader Copies of books that came out this year. After a full year of NOTHING, I’ve gotten one almost every month. I thought I’d list the books and my reviews for those who are interested. February 2010 All God’s Creatures by Carolyn McSparren. “As a convincing fictional memoir, this book succeeded (not that […]
My friend, Carol (not the Carol in the story), recently posted the following on her blog and I was reminded again of the importance of all the quiet work moms do, so I’m following suit … This is an excerpt from The Invisible Woman by Nicole Johnson… It all began to make sense, the blank stares, the lack of response, […]
I’ve just finished re-reading the Harry Potter series. I was determined to take my time and really enjoy the story. I did pretty well with the first three books or so – I’ve read them a number of times and it was fun to notice the introduction of characters that I knew would become significant later on. But as the […]
So, you’ll remember that I took the 30 day New Testament challenge early in the year. Afterwards, I thought I’d read the Old Testament to round out the experience (the entire Bible in a year). There are some cool reading schedules out there (one I’d like to try some time has daily readings from the Old & New Testaments, as […]
So, here it is, 1:30 am, and I’m awake and coughing and totally disgusted. I was sooo tired tonight, and of course the kids were up late because we were going to watch the fireworks (which didn’t apparently get rained out, but we went home before they started because it was POURING). Anyhow, the children FINALLY went to bed and […]
So it’s been almost a month since my last post and I’m not sure why. I had thoughts of blogging about our garden (and posting pictures, of course) but in the end I was too bored – it’s a garden and nothing is really doing much yet (except the bugs are eating all the leaves). June was busy – Spencer […]
So, I’m officially 24 years old (that’s not a typo, is it??). It’s feeling good to be back in my 20’s. I’d forgotten how carefree and happy I was. Why did I ever leave my 20’s? I had it all figured out back then – I knew how to be the best mom and the best wife and keep my […]
I just read a comment about this on someone else’s blog and I have to chime in … Latest example of government waste that I (and everyone else) is personal witness to … the census procedure. Notice: the letter announcing the upcoming arrival of the census form, then the postcard, then the form, then the reminder postcard (and for those […]