I’m recording my youth, one year per week. This week I’m talking about life in the 8th grade (age 13). I can’t think of eighth grade without thinking of Amy. As cheesy as Anne Shirley’s term “kindred spirits” might be, it really is the best description of the kind of relationship Amy and I had….
Party in a Box (a Mozaik Giveaway)
Over the weekend, while my dad was in town, my sister and two nieces gathered at my house for a big pre-holiday family dinner. When I’m feeding a crowd, I really don’t like to use regular dishes because the clean-up afterwards takes as long as the food preparation before the meal….Especially when the dishwasher is…
Smiles for Grandpa
Despite the fact that two of my children refused to smile for this group picture with Grandpa on Sunday and were sent to their rooms (darn kids ruined a perfectly good photo for posterity) this picture makes me smile. I smile because I can hear the kids playing and laughing with Grandpa. I can picture…
Big Girls Need Their Daddies, Too
When I was a little girl, small enough to still fit on my dad’s lap, I needed my daddy for many things. I needed daddy to help me with my math homework, to put a band-aid on a cut, to reach something high on the shelf. Daddy was big and he was strong and he…
Favorite Holiday Recipes
I have been cooking for the holidays for 14 years now. Most of the dishes that I cook for the holidays (Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter) are the dishes that were my favorites when I was growing up, attending big holiday family gatherings. So, for your eating pleasure……the Better in Bulk favorite family recipes: Grandma Betty’s…
Kaplan Tutoring – One Month Free
Raise your hand if you feel inadequately prepared to help your children succeed in school? Have you ever faced a child’s homework assignment that looked like it was written in a foreign language? As a college-educated woman with a degree in education, I was confident that I would be able to help my kids with…
Boy Crazy
I’m recording my youth, one year per week. This week I’m talking about life in the 7th grade (age 12). As a mother of daughters in the 6th and 9th grades, it is a little disconcerting to think back on my middle school and high school years. Granted, like my own daughters, I was a…
Return to the Family
Today two of my friends, Caroline of the Bingham Diaries and Elisa of Crazyland (both ladies run Mormon Mommy Blogs and the Casual Blogger community and conference together) are appearing on television to introduce a new project that they are working on called Return to the Family. In today’s world, the family unit is often…
Santa Pictures
Ask any child about Santa and their eyes widen and sparkle and a smile erupts on their face. He brings presents! He has reindeer! He flies in a sleigh! But ask that same child to sit on Santa’s lap (at least if they live in my house) and suddenly Santa is a scary, intimidating character….
My True Nature Bath Giveaway
I’d love to introduce you today to Kelly Boyd, owner of the San Francisco-based company My True Nature. Kelly recently sent me a sample of Milo’s Natural 2-in-1 Holiday Shampoo & Body Wash and Bobo’s Natural Holiday Baby Bubble Bath, which have come in very handy with 5 mess-prone kids. Ok, honestly 3 of my…
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