Moms

Is there a more selfless person than a mother? From sun up to sun down mothers are serving their families, communities, church groups, schools, and neighbors. My mother was not perfect, but I remember her striving for perfection every day.

My mother painted a large painting of Christ in Gethsemane that hung in the Idaho Falls Temple for over twenty years. It’s remarkable journey taught me a powerful lesson of God’s foreknowledge and love.

I immediately throw away those tiny super bouncy balls you find in goodie bags because they look like the perfect choking hazard. I won’t let my children eat popcorn, grapes or nuts unless I am in the house for that same reason. Mothering comes with a deg

Mothers are all members of an artists’ colony. They may not realize it, but the second they begin to parent, they are making art. They are shaping, creating, designing, and nurturing along a masterpiece.

Call it “caring,” call it “worry.” Mothers worry. And it’s OK. After all, they’re mothers, and there are tornadoes, floods, paratroopers, and toddlers licking things to be worried about!

11 steps to planning, executing, enjoying, and surviving a vacation without your children.

I have always loved being a girl and then a woman. Never have I wished that I could be or do things that boys and men do. Yet, I hear all around me voices that say that doing the work that women have done through the ages is not enough.

The next time a well-meaning soul sees me with my brood of kids and tells me these days will just fly by, they will win an hour of babysitting!

Proper nouns I will not be bestowing upon my unborn child: Maverick, Turbo, Buck (short for Buck-a-roo), Blaze, Bilbo, or Vin- against my other children's wishes.