My Daughter and the BYU Fettish

If you know me, you know I’m a huge BYU fan. 

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Elder David Archuleta

Great clip. Having actually watched an entire season of American Idol to cheer on our resident LDS singer, I was happy to hear his announcement. Good luck to David. May he be called to serve far, far away from screaming girls. More mission news.

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Slumbering Dilemma

Years ago when our children were very young, my husband and I made a family decision to not allow sleepovers or slumber parties. There wasn’t a particular incident that spurred this decision — only that neither of us could remember anything particularly uplifting about the sleepovers in our childhoods, and felt uneasy about allowing our [...]

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A Taboo Subject

Five years ago, I had a miscarriage. I knew that I was at risk for a miscarriage even before I was pregnant, so I thought I was prepared. I didn’t tell anyone I was pregnant, because I couldn’t bear the thought of having to update everyone on my status if I had a miscarriage.  (And [...]

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Blogging Religion

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Letterpress Wedding Invitations

This post brought to you by Hello!Lucky. All opinions are 100% mine. When our daughter married last April, we made the invitations ourselves. As a graphic artist, Jessica knew what she wanted. She designed the invitations, I bought the linen and printed them. They were beautiful and the bride and groom were pleased with the [...]

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The Beauty of Christmas

I recently introduced Grasshopper, age 6, to a favorite Christmas video from my childhood—A Charlie Brown Christmas. In that video, a depressed Charlie Brown is given the assignment to obtain and decorate a Christmas tree for the children’s Christmas play. But the only tree he can find is a scrawny baby tree. But he convinces himself that it [...]

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Parents: Obey Your Children

Take the time to watch the video. Really. “Once a week  church attendance is sufficient fora  13-year-old boy.” With all those block meetings, firesides, priesthood previews, family home evenings, seminary classes, and mutual nights, you might be imposing “too much religion” on your children. And the government might need to step in. One of my [...]

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The Power of a Minute

I was excited when Grasshopper wanted to learn to crochet, since I also learned when I was 6yo. I taught her how to make a chain, and she decided she would make a red chain to give to her grandmother for her Christmas tree. She worked on it for about a minute, at which point [...]

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Structured Recess: Why “R” Isn’t for “Running”

I was sitting with my coworkers during lunch, and as usual a couple of ladies who work as cafeteria/recess aides were eating beside us. As the aides were talking to each other one of them mentioned something about “walk and talk time.” It caught my attention since I’d noticed that everyday as I leave work [...]

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Keeping Christ in Christmas

I always feel a little irked when Christmas is mentioned before Thanksgiving. But I wanted to share a fun Family Home Evening series that we do for Christmas in time for others who might want to do something similar. When my oldest was a baby, I decided that I wanted to put more emphasis on [...]

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Blogging From the Bushes

First it was Transporter, a local bulletin board system in Provo in the late 1980′s. Then it was America Online, where I was on staff in the Family Computing Forum and later in the Homeschooling Forum. Next, we upgraded to the World Wide Web, and email group lists and website forums and message boards. Once [...]

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Boy Scouts and the Uncanny Valley

There are some things that I just can’t abide. I am incredibly susceptible to the uncanny valley — a phenomenon where things that look almost real — but not quite close enough — cause revulsion. With me, it’s not just human replicas (and photoshops of Paula Deen), but any replicas. There is a cell phone tower [...]

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Reebok Class Action Settlement

This post brought to you by Reebok Settlement. All opinions are 100% mine. The Federal Trade Commission didn’t like the way Reebok advertised a line of shoes and apparel that purportedly made you backside look like awesome sauce. The FTC said it’s testing didn’t prove the claims. Reebok disagrees, but decided to settle. As a [...]

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Two Sides of the Same Coin

“I want!” is a phrase that moms hear often from their children. My Grasshopper (6yo), though, has a habit of merely implying that she wants something and then expecting me to understand. “My glass is empty,” may mean that she is done, or it may mean that she wants more. And she gets a little miffed [...]

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This One’s for the Girls…

By Arden Ott, age 16 I have a few thoughts that need to be expressed. I hope that a lot of my friends will get to read what I’m going to write, and take something away from it. I’m going to talk about girls. That’s right, those amazing, beautiful, mysterious creatures that all of us [...]

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My Aspiring Missionary

A couple of years ago, we moved from a small city out to a more rural area.  Our ward is very small, and there are few opportunities for my kids to make friends there. Knowing we would be homeschooling, I endeavored to make friends in our small town. We have managed to form a good-sized [...]

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Introduction

My name is Tracy, and I am very pleased to have been invited to participate in the Mormon Momma blog. I am 42 years old and have been a member of the Church since I was a 19-year-old college sophomore. I have been married to my eternal companion for 18 years, and we have two [...]

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Tell Us Your Favorite General Conference Moments!

This is an open thread for you to share anything you’d like about this weekend’s session of General Conference. Don’t forget to check out: Making General Conference Memorable.

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Lying For a Good Cause

In his transformational book Believing Christ, Stephen Robinson uses the “Parable of the Bicycle” to represent how the atonement works in our lives. The parable is a touching story about Robinson’s young daughter trying, unsuccessful, to save enough money for a bicycle. She saves what she can manage — which isn’t much — and her [...]

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