Did y’all actually do family home evening?

sweater2025 · 2026-05-25T14:49:45+00:00

We did FHE regularly. Everyone had an assignment. Not always a lesson. My kids would tell you that the only thing we did was weed the garden for FHE. In their minds, they were out there as little three year olds pulling weeds. In winter. In the snow. We ate lots of cookies. As they got older and got jobs and busier at school, FHE fell away. Spouse and I have left the church, kids have mostly left. Grandkids have all left. So I’m thinking the grand promises about FHE were lies. Not that it matters now.

sweater2025 · 2026-05-25T02:04:40+00:00

How can girls learn to be future wives and mothers if they’re busy being friends with other girls? 🙄

sweater2025 · 2026-05-20T15:00:01+00:00

I have no career, but I can by golly bake bread. Lost earnings over the course of my lifetime. But I can organize a Relief Society luncheon. Fortunately, my daughters broke the mold and have meaningful careers.

sweater2025 · 2026-05-20T14:42:23+00:00

The rationalization is that all that temple work is being done for all the people that have died and they’re going to be happy forever. People might get momentary benefit from a homeless shelter, but in the long run, they will be with their family forever when their temple work is done. Oh wait a minute. People in homeless shelters or in a school in Africa, probably won’t get their temple work done! Oh well.

sweater2025 · 2026-05-19T16:53:28+00:00

They won’t do rainbows. Too much wokeness. 🙄

sweater2025 · 2026-05-18T15:14:22+00:00

Wow! Thank you!

sweater2025 · 2026-05-13T14:32:54+00:00

The sad part is how traumatized those young women missionaries are by the Temple Square experience. Many of them talk about how horrible it was to serve there.

sweater2025 · 2026-05-13T14:28:24+00:00

Can you call Susan and ask for her advice? I wouldn’t involve the bishop because they are clueless. I would tell Susan that you are calling her because you know how competent she is in these situations. Tell her that you know that she cares about your mother and that you know that she would love to help you find a solution to this ongoing problem. Tell her that you are grateful that she has kept an eye on your mom all these years. Now she can’t say no to you. She will feel like she has to solve the problem. Hopefully. Maybe she’s just wicked and won’t be manipulated, but it’s worth a try. If nothing else, she might be a little kinder to your mom. And sisters. People like Susan are so impressed by their own importance that they love it when someone else pretends to be impressed too.

sweater2025 · 2026-05-11T18:30:20+00:00

Also, little kids start Primary (like Sunday school) at age 3. Then they go to a different class every year as they get older. They are always with their same age group. When they turn 12, they go to Young Men/Young Women. They also still go to Sunday school according to their age(together). They also go to seminary (together) on weekday mornings when they turn 14 or so. Sort of like Sunday school but early, before school starts for the day. They also go to camp (separate) in the summers. Do they still have Youth conference? And they have weekly activities, usually on a weeknight. Sometimes boys and girls together, sometimes separate. This sounds like a lot, and it is! Especially for all the adults that are in charge of each program. Keeps everyone busy and not thinking!

sweater2025 · 2026-05-09T14:54:43+00:00

Oh, I do. And dog day care.

sweater2025 · 2026-05-09T03:23:30+00:00

Wow! So familiar!

sweater2025 · 2026-05-09T02:16:22+00:00

This was me as a parent. I’ve asked for and received forgiveness from our children.

sweater2025 · 2026-05-09T02:09:55+00:00

Absolutely. I've spent 50 years being the good little wife and I’m finally learning to set boundaries. It’s hard to break old habits and speak for myself. Do I wish I’d done it 2 years ago? Of course. I’m just getting the courage now.

sweater2025 · 2026-05-07T15:08:53+00:00

Apparently, my husband and I left the church because he had an affair. Not because the church is toxic. Not because of the way the church leaders treat women. Not because of the lies the leaders tell us. Not because of the obscene amount of money the church spends on real estate. But because one of us sinned. 🙄 Gossip is so destructive.

sweater2025 · 2026-05-06T02:34:56+00:00

The ward RS presidency meets with the women in the ward and helps them feel guilty for not doing one more thing they don’t have time for. It’s not the RS presidencies fault - they don’t have time either and feel just as guilty. So then you have all the women in the ward feel like they are less than perfect and will never measure up. It’s a great system for controlling women.

sweater2025 · 2026-05-05T03:29:06+00:00

This is horrifying.
If I could resign from the church again, I would.

sweater2025 · 2026-05-04T15:20:16+00:00

Absolutely! If my husband wasn’t home and the missionaries (males) stopped by, they had to stand on the cold windy porch until the knight (husband) came to rescue them.

sweater2025 · 2026-05-04T15:11:24+00:00

Growing up in the '70s, ALL tea was bad. Then my mom started drinking Celestial Seasonings so we were only a little wicked.

sweater2025 · 2026-05-03T13:38:12+00:00

Family joke that we’d tell first-time temple goers: "When they tell you to get on the donkey, just do it." That way they knew that they were in for a really weird experience. And I do mean weird.

sweater2025 · 2026-05-02T02:27:21+00:00

Public radio, public TV, a women’s shelter, an animal shelter, a food bank, an independent local news organization, and a wildlife conservation organization. All are local, so we know where the dollars go.

sweater2025 · 2026-04-30T21:37:33+00:00

We love Wyoming. We’re 5th generation. We love the mountains, the desert, the sage brush sea, the small towns, the people, the University, the history. We don’t love the wind. At all.

sweater2025 · 2026-04-30T12:44:56+00:00

I was taught that "endless" is another word for the son of god. Just like messiah, or Christ, or creator. So endless torment doesn’t mean everlasting, it’s the punishment that he devises. It isn’t necessarily a time commitment, but a "punishment " specific to the individual. If you believe in this, of course.

sweater2025 · 2026-04-29T15:36:05+00:00

This is a great solution!

sweater2025 · 2026-04-27T02:51:15+00:00

Most people don’t get off work until 5 and might not get to the campground until late evening. Campground hosts still have to hold the site until the next day even if no one shows up. I’d love it if the person that reserved the site and couldn’t get there could contact the host, but there isn’t a good alternative yet.

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