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Quantum of Silliness
11.14.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

Dick and I couldn’t get a babysitter tonight to go to the movie we wanted to see. Apparently the teenage girls in Seagull Fountain go to dances and also book up their Friday nights before school is out for the week. (The nerve.)
But we needed a break from the emotionally draining business of intense (yet [...]
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Some days I am sure that deciding to become a stay-at-home mother was the biggest mistake I ever made
11.13.08 | Permalink | 24 Comments

Today, minutes before I exploded my new Pyrex brownie pan by turning on the wrong burner on my glass-top stove, Dick took the car to his scout meeting. He refused to take any of the girls with him, and, since he worked from home today, he never really “came” home before leaving right before the [...]
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Thoroughly Unworthy Emotions
10.20.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

Last week I was reading one of my favorite group Mormon woman blogs, and halfway through the post I felt disturbed, betrayed, cheated. I’ve had a mild blog crush on Heather O. for a while now, and I just couldn’t believe she was using words like “conferences,” “continuing education,” “license,” “our patients,” and “graduate school.”
When [...]

Quantum of Silliness