My husband is taking a class on Isaiah and the other day he came home excited to share something his teacher had shared in class. In Isaiah 3 it talks about leadership and my husband’s teacher pointed out that it is important in order to have effective leadership in the home, in church, in society…
Isaiah 3:16-26 2 Nephi 13: 16-26 These passages have always interested me because of the long list of women’s clothing and adornments listed. I’ve often wondered what a “wimple” or a “caul” was and what the women Isaiah is referring to must have looked like. As I did a little research I found that scholars…
When I was younger I was a bit discouraged by the fact that most of the important women in the scriptures are always described as being very physically attractive. For example, in his vision of Mary, the Mother of Christ Nephi describes her as “exceedingly fair” (1 Nephi 11:13), Rachel is described as being “beautiful…
“We declare the means by which mortal life is created to be divinely appointed.” – from The Family: A Proclamation to the World Me after the birth of my daughter, little over a year ago. I used to struggle with my body image. For most of my teenage years and early adult life loving and…
A year ago one of my blogging friends posted that she was doing the “Dress Dare” hosted by the young Catholic women who blog at “Defining Beauty”. Here is the details of their dare. Here we go! The Official Rules are: Wear dresses and skirts throughout the month of May. Exceptions: Snoozing {zzz} and Exercising.…
I can’t believe the month of May is already half way over. It has gone by so quickly, but then again my life has been pretty fast paced lately. I just thought I’d check in and see if anyone else is still hanging in with the dress dare and is still wearing skirts and dresses!…
I didn’t have a single pimple until I was senior in High School. All those years of Jr. High and High School I counted my lucky stars and inwardly gloated at all the other adolescents whose faces broke out like patches of raspberries. I guess I got punished for my teenage cockiness because I…
My youngest sister is an aspiring fashion designer and a few months ago she and I had a lot of fun looking through a blog called A New Dress a Day. The blog started when the author challenged herself to wear a new dress every day for a whole year, but she could only spend…
Do you remember that part in Gone With the Wind when Scarlet has just had her baby and is upset because Mammy can only get her corset laced up to 21 inches instead of her pre-pregnancy 19 inches ? Mammy tells her, “Honey child, you done had a baby. You ain’t never gun a be…
Jon and I have been taking our kids swimming a lot the last few months. Several months ago we had an interesting conversation about the differences between men and women’s locker rooms. Apparently ladies, for all of you who don’t know, men don’t cover up in locker rooms. It is totally acceptable to walk around…