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Tips For Gathering And Supporting Family

The month of December includes several holidays, including Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Solstice. Many people enjoy gathering together to celebrate with members of their families during these holiday celebrations. For best results, follow these tips for gathering and supporting family members. Plan Gatherings Around The Most Vulnerable Family Members CNBC News reported advice from Dr. Katrine Wallace, an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her number one piece of advice is to plan gatherings around the most vulnerable family members. Vulnerable communities include people who are immunocompromised, children, and elderly people. Dr. Wallace listed the following examples of how … Continue reading →

Who Is Supporting Whom?

My kids don’t know it, but I get almost as much support from them as they get from me. I’m not talking about a role reversal where I expect my kids to tend to my emotional needs or look after me or parent themselves–I’m just talking about the fact that having a family to care for and tend to gives me guidance and support in ways I might not otherwise have. Looking after a family has a way of holding me up… My kids have the ability to take me out of my head and away from my worries and … Continue reading →

Supporting Your Spouse in His or Her Calling

When your spouse gets a calling in essence you receive the calling as well. Well not quite, but you do have to deal with allowing your spouse the extra time that he or she needs to complete the calling. This can be a difficult at times. I think that Bishop’s families and Relief Society President’s families often have the most that they have to deal with in terms of the whole family being affected by the calling. Here are four ways that you can support your spouse in his or her calling. 1) Allow your spouse time to prepare for … Continue reading →

Doofy Husbands

Have you ever heard of doofy husbands?  They’re the guys in commercials who are always incapable of doing anything around the house.  They try to do the laundry, clean a room, or cook a meal, always to hilarious failure.  Their long-suffering wives come into the room and shake their heads, then proceed to use whatever product is being shilled to accomplish the task with ease. The concept of doofy husbands is problematic for a couple reasons: it doesn’t give men enough credit, and it perpetuates the idea that men aren’t good at performing many household, traditionally feminine tasks.  It implies … Continue reading →

Don’t Do Everything Together

My husband’s kind of a loner. He’s drained by social situations, so if he’s had a long day hanging out with a group of people is the last thing he wants to do. He’s perfectly happy on his own, and if he doesn’t speak to a friend for years he’s totally fine with that. So when he gets together with his friends – all whom live in the area, mind you – two or three times a year to play a tabletop game, I let him be. I’m not terribly interested in the game, though sometimes I think that if … Continue reading →

Ellen is Leaving Idol and Diddy Wants In

More American Idol changes and gossip this week and it wasn’t all good. First off, I was a bit unsure to whether I was going to like Ellen DeGeneres when it was announced she would be taking Paula Abdul’s place on Idol. The first couple of episodes were a bit awkward. I mean, after all, what does Ellen know about music other than how to dance to it? Then, about half way through the season, Ellen hit her stride. What she said wasn’t really relevant to helping the contestants, but she was funny and a bit like Paula, she seemed … Continue reading →

Don’t Forget to Vote!

Regardless of who you are supporting, this election has been interesting, to say the least. People are engaged in the process, following the coverage and learning about the background and policies proposed by these two very different men. It’s been exciting to see the surge in new voter registrations over these past months and young people energized and involved in the political process. On this blog and in our forums, we’ve had interesting discussions and lively debates. Seeing the long lines at the polls during early voting and today makes me happy and proud of our system. In my state, … Continue reading →

Bringing the Importance of the Presidential Election Home

Just before bed one day last week, my seven-year-old son was asking me about the presidential election. Bouncing my two-year-old on my hip and supervising the “almost-four-year-old” while she brushed her teeth, I started launching into the two-party system, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, the names of the current candidates, taking him with me when I went to vote, weighing the issues, etc. My son looked at me quizzically, and then gave a slight nod. “But the important thing is that history is going to be made.” That is when I had to bow to the wisdom of a seven-year-old. He … Continue reading →

Homeschoolers Worry about Obama

Homeschoolers worry about laws that affect homeschoolers. We worry about what new legislators will do and how politicians will view them. We worry about school boards giving us a hard time. We worry about our freedom to parent. We vote based on these worries and concerns. I received an email this morning from someone who was thinking about supporting Obama in his presidential bid. They asked me if I was aware of anything Obama had said or done to support homeschooling. My guess is that this would greatly affect their vote. The only thing I could find as something he … Continue reading →

Why it can be hard to lose a parent you dislike (1)

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Some of us are really lucky and have parents that we love pretty much equally. They may have vastly different personal qualities, but overall, we would be hard pressed to say which one we prefer. Alternatively, we may have one parent who we dearly love, and the other one is disliked for a number of reasons. So when it comes to losing one of these parents in death, we would assume that it would be far harder to lose the parent we adore. After all, hasn’t the other one been a thorn in our side for as long as we … Continue reading →