Lady of Light

Becky is a Pacific Northwest transplant who married her Arizona transplant sweetheart and settled in the middle ground of Utah. She is the adoptive mom of one and hoping (and waiting for 5 years) to be the mom of one more. Despite long conversations with Heavenly Father in her teenage years that homemaking skills were [...]

One Mom’s Trash is Usually Some Kid’s Treasure

Earlier this month my children and I escaped the cold, brown atmosphere of early spring in Utah for warm, sunny Las Vegas. One day we went to the Springs Preserve, an area dedicated to nature and history—I silently congratulated myself on choosing such a lovely, non-commercial outing after the kids spent hours in a museum [...]

Book Review: Parenting with Spiritual Power by Julie Nelson

Title: Parenting with Spiritual Power Author: Julie K. Nelson When I started thinking about getting pregnant for the first time, one of the first things I did was to buy What to Expect When You’re Expecting (this was back in the late 90s, before the books became sort of a joke). For the next few [...]

Sacrament Meeting with a Toddler

Jana Porter is still pinching herself over the fact that 3 1/2 years ago she married the best man in the whole world. She and her husband, James, have a very active and adorable 18-month-old son named Blake. She is just barely scratching the surface of this whole mom thing and finding out it is [...]

Love-in-Waiting

Rachel Jeffcoat studied English at Oxford University a few light-years ago. These days she works as a freelance writer and editor, in between finger painting and feeding the ducks with her boisterous eighteen-month-old, and spending time with her lovely husband. She loves to read, cook, and write intense love letters to the semicolon. She blogs [...]

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