Wife Like Me

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I'm in charge of Sharing Time for the next three weeks, so I thought I'd come up with ideas and blog about them.  So, week 1's theme is "Ancient prophets foretold the coming of the Savior to the earth."  […]

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I've been on a lot of road trips, with and without kids, and there are some things everyone need to know about how to make one successful.  There are also some things I do that some people would hate.  Here are some of my ideas on the subject (some of it applies to flying or […]

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We just decided we're going to Phoenix for Christmas! (Thanks Mom and Dad!)  I am soooo excited!  We're going to drive out there, so it'll be a long trip, but we generally have great road trips so it shouldn't be too bad.  So, this year I don't have the responsibility of creating a Christmas celebration at […]

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I was thinking today about income and how to determine pay scales.  I think about this occasionally because Colin is a teacher and often feels pressured to join a union, but doesn't want to for various reasons including that unions generate increasing need for unions without necessarily increasing benefit to union members or businesses.  Anyway, as […]

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I am so pleased with myself, and for a reason that will seem silly and mundane to a few of you.  This is my fourth day in a row of having a clean kitchen!  ALL of my dishes are done (including the pans) and I've unloaded the dishwasher already and loaded the breakfast dishes.  The counters […]

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Last night Colin showed me a site called www.w3schools.com that has free online "web building" tutorials.  I just finished taking the HTML tutorial and it was quite thorough.  I'd never had any education in HTML besides the basic self-taught trial-and-error of building a web page from a template and messing around in Dreamweaver and building a WordPress […]

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Last night we had a rather successful short Family Home Evening.  Degen has been insisting on saying every prayer himself every day for a few days, so we decided to have an FHE on prayer (yes, we had an FHE on prayer a couple of months ago).  We sang "Sweet Hour of Prayer" for our […]

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I've been in Dallas, Texas, for the last few days on our Thanksgiving vacation.  Our friends, Ashley and Justin, invited us to stay with them and celebrate Thanksgiving with them this year and we happily took them up on their offer.  My sister Phoebe and her husband John live nearby and were invited to join […]

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At Laman Library, our favorite in the area, they are having a contest to name the large green papier mache dinosaur in the children's section.  A couple of weeks ago I asked Degen what the dinosaur's name is and he immediately answered "Baby Saur."  Since he was so sure of himself, I entered the name in […]

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I just spent some time on www.mormon.org, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' missionary-focused site.  They've done some redesigning and added some new content.  The Church has a new multimedia campaign called "Truth Restored" where they've asked converts to the Church about their experiences and recorded their answers totally unscripted.  They have the […]

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