by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 19, 2012 | for Spirit
Mom's wisdom: An unwillingness to set standards or goals for ourselves, of course, can result in a Mormon malaise, going nowhere but very anxiously. Neal A. Maxwell, RSCS, 1982, p. 115 Discuss.
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 17, 2012 | for Home
When I was 19, my dad took a sabbatical to the United Kingdom. He was a math professor and did collaborative research at a university in Leeds, England. Even though I was only there a few months, I take the fact that I actually lived there as some kind of indicator...
by Tracy Polyak | Feb 16, 2012 | for Spirit
In a recent post, I mentioned how my husband and I have been looking for ways to help Grasshopper (6 years old) understand and appreciate the power and necessity of prayer. One of the things that she always prays for is that we have a good day tomorrow. When I ask her...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 14, 2012 | Lifestyle Design
Sam and I are taking the Sunday School genealogy class. As I told you, I'm trying to get myself psyched up and motivated. I'm trying to fall in love with genealogy. And that's a tall order. My patriarchal blessing says that lots of work has been done on my ancestral...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 13, 2012 | for Money
For the past 16 years I've been the accountant for our engineering company. That explains why I get crazy angry and show signs of battle fatigue and hair loss once per quarter…on approximately January 31, April 30, July 31, and October 31 of every single solitary...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 13, 2012 | for Good, for Spirit
Did that get your attention? Probably exponentially more dander is brushed up by such titles (or those targeting Jews, blacks, etc.) than by any of the bigotry being flamed at Mormons during this presidential primary season. In his post “Tsantorum Tsurge and...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 12, 2012 | for Spirit
I've been going through my mom's things since cleaning out my parents how to sell it. I found a file box full of 3″x5″ cards my mom had typed up and organized by topic. Each one contains a quote she felt was important, helpful, useful. Most have a...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 11, 2012 | for Fun, Yea Big
[Looking up requirements for various Boy Scout merit badges online.] Samson (11): Mom, all of these require explaining. Mom: Yea. Samson: Well, I don't really like explaining.
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 11, 2012 | Lifestyle Design
If it's about organization, I'm all over it. And with the information era has come a barrage of incoming stuff to organize. It can be overwhelming. This week I found a great (and free!) online organizing tool called clipix. I signed up for an account to try it out....
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 10, 2012 | for Home
When we built our first home, there were a number of windows that had to be made of tempered glass or safety glass. Due to their location, regular window glass wouldn't be strong enough to provide the needed safety. For example, our second story balcony walkway ran...
