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NYC Marathon: A Story of Finishing and New Beginnings

First weekend in November is a big deal for Marathoners from all over the world. It’s the ING New York City Marathon. After living in the city for a couple of years, becoming a runner, undertaking a marathon elsewhere and loving it, I decided I wanted to be a part of one of the biggest [...]

So, What else do you “do”?

This if for my friend who recently wrote me an email about her discouragement. She has a three-year-old and a new baby. Someone asked her the other day, “So, what do you do besides keep 2 children alive?” They laughed a bit, but the girl waited for an answer and my friend stood there thinking, [...]

Go Away

My 2 1/2 year old sucks her thumb. In my mind, that’s fine. She can suck her thumb for about six more months before I’ll even consider trying to get her to stop doing it in public or anything like that. Maybe because I know there’s no way I’ll really be able to make her [...]

Multiple Choice

I flipped through my journal last night, reading entries from this summer, looking for something to inspire this post. The only writing I’ve done since last spring has been in my journal. I let got of editing duties here and only blogged once in the last few months because I wanted to go easy on [...]

Hooray! :-D Boo! :-(

So, our family is getting ready to move. This partially explains my absence from Segullah as of late. I miss you though, my dears! After six years in NYC we are heading west, to Colorado.

I’m Trying to Be Like. . .

Maybe this is Mormon folklore, but I have it from a source, only once removed. So from me to you it’s twice removed. Pretty reliable, right? Pertinent background info: A member of the church has a friend at work. They talk a lot, the member shares information about the church. They have good conversations, the [...]

How Do We Know?

My husband assigned our four-year-old son Cole the FHE lesson last night. About half hour before FHE on the way home from a playdate he and I got around to planning. It went something like this, Me-What do you want to do for the lesson tonight? Cole-I don’t want to do the lesson. Me-Well, it’s [...]

Mormon Artists

An interesting discussion at playgroup yesterday was cut short by toddlers stealing each others’ snacks and subsequent screaming. So I’d love to continue it here, though I won’t be able to check back until this evening, you can talk amongst yourselves and I’ll chime in later. Here’s how the discussion began- A member of the [...]

It’s a good thing . . .

Last January I sorted and purged and rearranged my children’s bedroom. We have three kids in a relatively small room and after getting rid of old toys and trying to assign homes for the new toys that had resulted from Christmas I had taken everything apart and decided maybe there was a better way to [...]

Applause

So the other day my friend, Meredith and I were riding the bus home after picking up our four-year-olds from pre-K. In fact I think we had our four-year-olds and a couple of other people’s four year-olds. Not an uncommon occurrence. The 15 minute commute is often spent making sure the seating arrangements are fair [...]

O Remember, Remember

About a month ago one of our ward missionaries sent me an email explaining that they are getting ready to launch a missionary blog and asking if I would write down my conversion story for them to post. I agreed, and though I haven’t started writing it yet, I’ve been thinking a lot about it [...]

The Hard is What Makes it great

I’m going to brag a little today. I finished the Chicago Marathon this weekend. Twenty-six point two miles of road, bridges, cheering fans, fluorescent signs, balloons, volunteers, music, bananas, Gu, Gatorade, water, sweat, and yes, some tears. 40,000 runners and over a million spectators crowded themselves onto the streets of the city, undeterred by the [...]

The Business of Making Friends

Yesterday we spent the day traipsing from one side of Manhattan to the other. Our long-time friend is in town, my hubby had the day off of work; it was the last day of summer so we decided to make a day of it. We explored a new City park on the abandoned tracks of [...]

Find It!

I’ve been in the kitchen making cinnamon rolls this morning. In fact I got so excited about baking this morning that I temporarily forgot that I had signed up for a Segullah post today. My good friend had a baby last week, so in the grand tradition of Mormon women everywhere I am going to [...]

Sage of the Subway

On the way home from my weekly OB appointment during the ninth month of my last pregnancy I stepped onto a very crowded train. It was rush hour, which meant I had spent far longer than planned waiting at the Dr.’s office just so I could get weighed, have my blood pressure taken, asked if [...]

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