A not-so-perfect "Mormon" mom

Note to self... my 20 year old self: Marriage is great! Even now, 27 years later, it's still great! You found the person you belong with for the rest of your life. Just keep yourself together woman! PMS is stupid crazy. Do not let it control you! Communicate! Seriously! If he leaves camping equipment out for a week, tell him, nicely, to move it. Don't throw it all out in the hall, okay? Things are going to get really hard. Harder than you ever thought possible. These hardships will bring you closer to him and to the Lord. Don't be afraid. Don't get mad. Just lean on them to get you through. Allow him to lean on you, too. Life will not go how YOU planned. Ever. Deal with it. Go with the flow. Lean on the Lord. Children are both a blessing and a pain in the rear end! They will laugh and smile and bring sunshine into your life. You will not be able to bear children through your physical body, like you always assumed you would. This is one of those things you ca...

Today is Sunday. The Sabbath. The day we rest from our labors (I say, while I've been cleaning my office and laundry room for the last hour. Eh hem.) I like Sunday. I get to sleep in. We don't have church until 1:00. I'm pretty sure this is the first year I've ever enjoyed this later church time. I don't know why it would be any different, but it is. If I feel inclined to put something in the crock pot, I have enough time to do it. If I want to make a cake, I can. If I want to lay on my bed and play silly games on my iPad, I can. (Oh, did I just admit to something there?) This morning, after an exhausting battle or two in Plants vs. Zombies, I took a nap. Before church. Ahhh! I do like going to church. Sometimes I have an attitude. Sometimes I don't. This morning I decided that I would not complain about the non-cool condition of the air conditioning at church. I might have indicated discomfort, but I don't think I actually complained. The chapel was s...

Last month my two (yes, two!) oldest children moved out. It's just so weird. It's something I've looked forward to for a long time. I mean, you have a child, raise that child, and, hopefully, teach that child how to be an adult, and then they're an adult and they finally move out and you're confused at your feelings about it. Shouldn't I be jumping for joy? And since they moved out within 5 days of each other, it's hard to distinguish between all the feelings coming at once. Is this one because he moved out? Is that one because she moved out? I'm not sure. What I do know, however, is the house is much quieter and much more calm. Sometimes it's eery, but mostly just good. Food stays in the fridge longer. I only have to buy half the milk I used to. There's so much less tension (pretty sure that's because he moved out). Fewer items left laying around. Fewer dishes to wash. I do know that he is figuring out how to adult. He is figuring out hi...