Parenting challenges

I had a hard few days with Anthony and got overwhelmed, so I wrote it all down. I figured it would make a good post for an anecdote of my experience in parenting Anthony. Two days ago, I found out that my 14 year old son failed to submit an assignment for weeks and had...

Lincoln’s Milestones

Sean and I have been chronicling Lincoln's developmental milestones and baby antics by video. I am going to go through them now and determine approximately when Lincoln hit his various milestones. As a new mom with severe postpartum anxiety, I was terrified that Lincoln wasn't hitting his developmental milestones right on time. It was an...

My Childhood

I was born in 1989 to Patricia Elizabeth Burger and Arnold Jay Harry. When I was about two, my mom divorced my dad. She told me this was due to my dad being critical and disrespectful to her, culminating in my mom contracting an STD, which led her to conclude that my dad had cheated...

Living through the Trump tenure

I figure people of the future will be interested to know what it was like to live through four years under the leadership of the infamous Donald Trump. I will briefly summarize the circus we endured. When I heard in 2017 that the hotel tycoon/reality show host was running for president, I thought it was...

Good books I’ve read recently

Children Are From Heaven - John GrayEat That Frog! - Brian Tracy Tattoos on the Heart - Gregory BoyleThat We May Be One - Tom ChristoffersonState of Terror - Hillary Clinton*All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr*Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl*The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten BoomAnxious People - Fredrik BackmanAbraham...

“Living the Gospel Alone”

A talk I gave in church in 2022: Sometimes I joke with Sean that if we hang in there long enough, we might be the only members of the Church of Jesus Christ left from our families. I know some of you feel like that too. Most of you have had siblings, children, and spouses...

Troubles with my Faith

Would it have been better if I had known as a child about the various blunders in Joseph Smith's translation attempts? Or better for me to read the Book of Mormon without much outside influence and decide how I felt about the book for myself? \ When I read the Book of Mormon without any...

Foster Parent Licensing

Sean and I started working on getting our license to foster parent in May 2018. We have one class, one doctor appointment, one immunization, and one home study to go before we are done. Contrary to the norm, it was Sean pushing to have children, not me. He's been trying to get me to concede...

1st Anniversary spent in Oahu, Hawaii

Oahu is my favorite place on earth. I want to live here with my wonderful husband someday. I love my husband so much. He is the best. We had a really great time together on this trip. Us on top of a WW2 pill box at the top of a steep hike creatively named "Pill...