Celebrity Obsession

By Monica Moore Smith, age 12 Do you ever think about what celebrity your daughter/son is admiring at the moment? And how they might be overly obsessed with that celebrity, or practically worshipping them? Do they hang a million posters of celebrities all over their...

Help! My Husband is ALWAYS home!

I have been posting on Mormon Momma for awhile now, and those who have read my posts know that I have been known to…ahem…complain on an occasion or two about my husband's schedule. For the past almost-12 years we have been married, and particularly in the...

For Annette

When I was in third grade, a girl moved into my ward with her parents and her two sisters. We became instant friends. Temporarily they lived with her grandma, then moved a block away to their new home. Annette Barton and I went to school together and to church...

Just Get Over Mother’s Day

When Sam finally got his PhD, we moved to Florida to become real people. Even though our income increased exponentially, we found that real world expenses increased almost as much as real world salaries. So the first few years when we had anticipated being absolutely...

The Teenage Brain

We have a legacy story in our house that I like to tell as often as possible. It goes like this: When children are young they have baby teeth. When they are about six the baby teeth start to fall out and, eventually—with a great deal of variation depending on the...