Everyone’s a comic

Today in Primary (the children’s class at church,) Mabel helped enact the story of the unmerciful servant (Matthew 18:23-34) and we’re told that she got into the role more than she had in rehearsal–she was shrieking and trying to bite the kids who had to take her away to the tormenters at the end of [...]

Mothering is such hard work. Also: worth it.

It was my turn to teach Relief Society couple of weeks ago, and I decided, for my own sake, to teach about anger management.  I called my lesson “A Soft Answer Turneth Away Wrath” (from Proverbs 15:1.)  I got some good inspiration and ideas as I prepared for and taught the lesson, and I’ve really [...]

Riddle

Rose: “Mom, what do people that take care of people, what do they do at the end?”
Me: “Uh . . . take a nap?”
Rose: “No, what do you, when they’re done taking care of someone, at the end when they go home, what do you give them? It starts with muh, muh, [...]

I will try to take note of that

Rose: “My pretend school is over there [points to a spot in air] like where Grandpa lives, far away.  Not the grandpa that’s Daddy’s dad, but”–
Me: “My dad?”
Rose: “Grandpa is YOUR FATHER?  Just like Grandma is your mother?  Why didn’t you ever tell me that?  Next time you should remember to tell me if you [...]

Sometimes the Internet hands you a gift

And tonight’s was Token Asian Friend’s list of some of her customized idioms.

And why would I think that?

Sitting in Sacrament Meeting, Rose draws a large house with a pointy spire and tells me “That’s the church.” She points to an area inside it and says, “That’s where we are.” Then she says, “Don’t look at what I’m drawing.” I obey, but a minute later I forget and glance down to [...]

Sociological assumptions

A couple of days ago we were driving through downtown Provo. Sitting in the back of a truck ahead of us were a guy with tattoos, smoking a cigarette, and a pretty girl with a good haircut, who was smiling at him as they talked to each other.
I said: “Her parents didn’t raise [...]

Comment thrift (Mom, this one’s for you)

I’m actually pretty embarrassed to recycle my comments from others’ blog posts and combine them into blog posts of my own, for more reasons than I care to enumerate.  FAKE!  Ha ha, like I’d ever pass up a chance to enumerate anything.  Reasons it’s embarrassing to recycle my comments:
1. It’s embarrassing that I’m that talkative [...]

My sister is famous (yes I do count this as famous; stop looking at me like that)

Lili’s is the fourth “frownsmile” featured in this post at Seriously So Blessed.

You start out with goo-goo and ga-ga, and the next thing you know you’re having actual conversations with your kids

Since my mom and my sister both recommended the series pretty highly, my whole family have been reading the “Last Apprentice” series by Joseph Delaney.  They’re teen “horror” books, and the premise is that the protagonist is apprenticed to a “spook,” whose job it is to help rid the County of boggarts, ghasts, ghosts, and [...]