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Mormon women blogging about the peculiar and the treasured

Write and Remember

When I was seven-years-old, my parents gave me a treasure: a pale pink diary. Shiny, dark pink daisies adorned the cover and surrounded the words, “My Daily Journal.” Even the pages were pink! There was one more detail–and probably my favorite feature–it had a lock. I was ecstatic and I wrote in it the very [...]

Macaroni Mom

“Cookie Mom! I want cookie!” ”Can I have Cheetos, Mom! Please?” “Not right now, Alison. Look! We’re going to that line.” My hands clenched around the shopping cart as I sped toward the checkout counter. Almost there, almost home. I looked at my two year old–his heavy eyelids threatened to close at any moment. I [...]

Hands

I have often heard the phrase, “I know it like the back of my hand.” What does that mean, really? How well do you know the back of your hand? Can you picture it in your mind? Unlike some, I apparently do not know the back of my hand very well. While looking over these [...]

A Swollen Eye and a Simple Lesson

Do you ever wonder about the Israelites who refused to look at Moses’ serpent and be healed? The Book of Mormon teaches us that all they had to do was to look. Why didn’t they do it? It was too simple. A few years ago, my son was ill, and after a couple of days [...]

A Stroller Story

When my nine year old son was two, we would occasionally walk his sister to kindergarten. One day on our walk home, I was chatting with a neighbor and my toddler was screeching and twisting in the stroller, struggling to get out.

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