by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 25, 2010 | for Body, for Spirit
The Skanky Prom Dress Issue What are they thinking? Is prom such a…special occasion…that it warrants a serious dressing down of decency? I can't tell you how many times I've seen photos (on blogs, on FaceBook, in person) from my good Mormon friends, whose good Mormon...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 22, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
The interior walls for the main floor were finished today. It's great to walk from room to room and see the scale in real life, instead of just on paper. The house is taking shape!
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 21, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Five guys with hardhats from Tempest arrived on the scene this morning to install the gas line. The line goes into the basement wall in the hall near the laundry room. We paid to have the gas line installed some weeks ago.
by Michelle DeGraw | Apr 21, 2010 | for Love
I originally wrote this article yesterday. However, as I was editing, it was accidentally deleted. I was not happy. [understatement!!] For a while, as I wallowed in my frustration, I lost sight of the message in the lesson I learned from the experience I wanted to...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 20, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
The back patio and walkway are in! The crew dug the holes for the footings last week and yesterday they laid the forms. This morning the cement truck came and they poured and smoothed out the surface. Gorgeous. This crew does beautiful concrete work. (Can concrete be...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 19, 2010 | for Body
I started wearing glasses when I was two years old. Yea, seriously. One day I looked at my mom one of my eyes crossed right into my nose. By the time I was in second grade, I was also far-sighted and wore bifocals. When I was 12, my eyes corrected. Yea, seriously. By...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 16, 2010 | for Body
Perhaps not what you expected? My father-in-law died in a car accident well over a decade ago. A car that that had been on the shoulder after causing fender bender on I-15 in Salt Lake City pulled into traffic. The car he pulled in front of slowed down to avoid...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 16, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Yesterday the concrete in the third bay in the single garage was poured. I saw one guy smoothing it yesterday afternoon. Looks very nice and, as far as I could tell from a cursory look, no one walked through it. They also scored the concrete in the larger garage area...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 16, 2010 | for Home
I've been online for over 20 years. Before Al Gore invented the internet, before most people knew it existed. As a full-time college student—and with a husband doing research toward a PhD in electrical engineering—we had access to some academia-centered technologies...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 16, 2010 | for Body
My mom had the best skin ever. I kid you not. It was clear, porcelain skin that looked striking with her nearly black hair. And it was smooth and soft until her early 70's. She never indulged in fads and potions. She washed with soap and then applied a mixture of...
