Rose’s five favorite animals:

Horses
Ponies
Unicorns
Puppies
Butterflies

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Speaking of things that are new,

I have an idea for an invention, and I’m willing to give up my intellectual property rights to anyone willing to develop it and market it. Here’s how it works. Imagine that someone, for example, a child, has just finished using the bathroom. My invention is attached to the toilet, and when [...]

Something new under the sun

Thanks to Mabel’s seemingly boundless creativity, here’s something I’d never seen before:

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A paper guy sitting on plastic wrap supported by toothpicks stuck into a bowl of applesauce.

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She calls him “The Applesauce King.”
(Updated to add: this is pictured larger than actual size. In real life it’s teensy-weensy.)

Mother and child, working together in harmony

I’m sick today. I’ve actually had this cold for over two weeks, but haven’t wanted to reschedule the many appointments on our calendar, so I’ve been pushing through. (I haven’t been able to muster a good attitude about pushing through, but I’ve set my jaw and borne it.) Today my cold had [...]

Photo of Joseph Smith shows up in my husband’s grandma’s scrapbook?

My sister-in-law Kim Marshall was just featured on the local ABC news. Dean’s grandmother (who passed away a couple of years ago) gave her a scrapbook that included a photo print of Joseph Smith, and a few months ago she became curious and started doing her own research on whether it might be an [...]

By any other name would smell as sweet

Yesterday while I was making banana bread Rose kept calling it “banana pie,” and I would tell her that it was actually banana bread, but tasted like cake.
This morning she asked for some “pajama cake,” and then Henry asked for some “‘nana phone cake.”

A funny way of showing it

Rose:  “Mommy?”
Me: “Mmm-hmm?”
Rose:  “Mommy?!”
Me:  “Yes?”
Rose:  “MOM!  MEE!”
Me:  “WHAT?!!”
Rose:  “I love you so much.  You’re the best mom ever!”

Rose reads the Book of Mormon

“And it came to pass that a wolf ate Daddy.  Amen.”

Through a glass darkly

Zina: “You know, even though, since I’ve raised our kids since they were tiny and cared for them, I of course feel very close to them, there’s also this thing where they’re different from me and mysterious to me. They look different from me, they have different life experiences, and I can’t go [...]

A Friday without any appointments is a beautiful thing. (It’s a treat when a stay-at-home-mom actually gets to stay home.)

I’m so discouraged about the unresolved mystery of the disappearing photos that I’ve nearly lost my will to write blog posts. Only my kids’ most noteworthy antics are capable of pulling me out of my blogging slump.
It’s been a long, exhausting week, replete with kids’ soccer games and practices, doctor visits, Relief Society meetings [...]