While our American readers attend parades, eat ice cream and light fireworks today, let’s have everyone outside of the U.S.A. raise their hand.
Yes, you. That means you! And if any of you U.S. of Aers are skipping the pancake breakfast, feel free to join in the discussion too.
We are indeed a worldwide church, but it’s [...]

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 [...]

Watching my nineteen-year-old daughter begin to navigate the college dating world (deep breaths) has reminded me how often I fall short as a mother, because I just realized this week that I have yet to impart all of my hard-won wisdom about dating and courtship and marriage (she’s my oldest, so I’m a little [...]

Today’s guest post comes from Michelle F. Michelle is a full-time mother of two little boys and a part-time voice teacher. She has an English degree with a theater minor from BYU and lives in Provo, Utah. She sings like an angel and served a mission in Bulgaria, where her mother was born.
It happened [...]

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 [...]

A few months ago a chunk of each of the two wards in my town were combined to make a sparkling new baby of a ward.  It’s an interesting thing being in a ward that’s starting from scratch; it’s not unlike the experience of being picked for kickball teams at recess in elementary school.  At [...]

My dryer broke yesterday—out of nowhere. I plopped two wet tablecloths and loads of sodden dishtowels into its pockmarked basin, clicked the knob to extra dry, pushed the button, and… nothing.
I checked the plug, the outlet, the robot looking tube snaking out its back, clicked the circuit breaker back and forth, did it again, and… [...]

This Friday my children will bid their teachers goodbye and sign yearbooks and clean out their desks and bring home pencil boxes and stacks of papers and, elated, they will fling their backpacks down in the mudroom, rejoicing that they won’t be going back to school until late August. And part of me will rejoice [...]

In high school I had a BIG crush. Since my first days of having crushes on boys there has been a pattern. I’ve always gone for guys with a little extra flair for the dramatics. Following is a sampling of my past loves.
Example #1: Ryan*, third grade. During sharing circle he talked about riding three [...]

A few weeks ago my husband and I were sitting in the Saturday night session of Stake Conference, enjoying some quiet time away from the kiddies, when my husband’s phone vibrated. “It’s home,” he said, and slipped outside to take the call. We’d left our thirteen-year-old son in charge of himself and our ten-year-old daughter [...]

I had a strange Sabbath. To put it bluntly, I wasn’t feeling the Spirit. I wish I could say that I have no one to blame but myself, but I am blaming others as well. Mea Culpa? You be the judge.
The first aggravation is that TPTB have put me as the Sunbeam teacher. The Sunbeams [...]

Last week during a special time of the month for me I cried to my husband about what a horrible person I am. I don’t know if you do this, but I start to feel a bit like a big ball of flaws, with nothing good to offer to the world, no talents, no [...]

Alright, I’m completely hijacking this blog to set up my own personal advice council. I’ll admit that I’m completely lazy, and in February, the Christmas wreath was still on the front door:

One day, in late February, we noticed some twigs and straw stuck in the wreath. Hmmmm, strange, how’d that get there? Oh, wait…It’s a [...]

I’m sitting here eating Easter candy for breakfast. Not just Easter candy, I made sure it’s part of a complete breakfast. I had two glasses of water, a small bowl of Kix with 1% milk, a slice of double fiber toast with a tsp. of butter. Post-morning workout I often feel energized and resolved to [...]

I don’t usually have these moments, but lately they’ve come by the bucketful and I feel saturated and heavy by a type of inadequacy that leaves me lingering on one thought:
I am a bad mother.
The truth is that he is hard. He is five. He is a boy. He is a middle child. And oh, [...]