Protected: Hmmm….

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She’s a rare talent indeed

Here’s a piece that Courtney has been working on for… years? It feels like at least a year, but I may be very wrong on that one.
It’s one of her better pieces, I think, and quiet delicately beautiful. As soon as we get the money together, we’ll frame it and hang it somewhere.
MarlaJayne–Is that offer [...]

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Teaching a child to eat

More a request for help than an actual idea.
Katherine refuses to eat supper. Most nights it ends with her half-finished plate getting dumped in the trash and her saying she’s hungry 15 minutes later. It’s infuriating, and I have no clue what to try next. The thing that frustrates me the most is that we’ve [...]

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Baseball bat or cinder block? Good question.

It is new-tenant move in time in the apartment complex next door. Typically, it’s a time of year I don’t look forward to because of the increased traffic in the city, the piles of garbage left behind as old tenants move out, and the never-ending calls to help move. And it’s not so much that [...]

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Protected: Yet another update

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Thoughts from the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Dedication

About a week ago, I had the thought that attending a temple dedication is one of those primary opportunities to open a direct conduit between yourself and the heavens, and I spent the last week trying to do the little things to prepare myself for this dedication. Here are a few of my thoughts:

The biggest [...]

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Explaining away the cowlick

First, I’m not sure there is any point to this post except to say that I felt the need to write. There, you’ve been warned.
Second, I’m really not sure I could ever explain away my cowlick. I’m not sure what perfect storm of genetic information collided to form the cowlick on the front of my [...]

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Protected: Changing: An Update

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Canning Tomatoes and Tomato Juice

We are finally done with canning for the season. We ended up canning 18 jars of juice total, though we have probably another 150 to 200 tomatoes sitting on the vine right now. We’ll be using the rest to make home-made salsa as well as donating large quantities of tomatoes to family, friends, and neighbors. [...]

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Protected: Changing?

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