Jenamarie

Ha! That is an awesome cake! (and both the movie AND the book played a major roll in my DH and I getting together)

My hospital had special pad-shaped ice packs that they had me wear in the hospital, as well as sent me home with some extras (and extra mesh underwear. I agree, that stuff is great)

Also, if you end up with a c-section, garments will be VERY impractical for several days because just about anything with a waistband will be uncomfortable, and while you're in the hospital the nurses will be exposing your scar regularly to change the dressings and such, and that can sometimes be messy.

I never wore my garments during my postpartum hospital stays. There was simply too much going on in that department to make wearing garments either comfortable or practical. I typically didn't put them back on until the postpartum bleeding had gotten to the point of being similar to a regular period.

A righteous young woman is to do what she feels the Lord is calling her to do.

We recently had an experience with prolonged laughter in church. Our Stake was re-aligning ward boundaries and held a special Stake-wide meeting to formally announce the changes. The opening hymn for the meeting was "I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go, Dear Lord". There was probably a full minute of laughter after the Stake President announced the hymn, but I think it was cathartic and broke the tension that was in the air, because many people knew they'd be in new wards by the end of that meeting, and that can be a hard transition for many people.

No advice, but congrats to your son! :)

I've been seeing a lot of political bickering (NOT discussion - bickering -and it's coming from BOTH "sides") going on on this site lately, completely outside of political threads, and it's really destroying the spirit of this place for me. It's not necessary. It's not kind. And, imo, does great harm to the very mission of this forum, as well as being outside of what I would deem to be appropriate behavior for Latter-Day Saints. There is no need for comments meant to make someone feel dumb, or less faithful, or what have you, for their political leanings. Could we just keep political discussions to being political discussions (and not political name-calling), and non-political discussions to being non-political discussions (without the jabs), pwetty pwease?

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Wow. To be honest, I didn't even realize they could do that!

Our nation has always had flaws. We've always done things not in keeping with our stated values and ideals. ("All men are created equal" while enslaving a very large number of them?) My view is more "nothing new under the sun". When the West was being settled often the most successful places of business were the saloons and the brothels. I don't know if we've had anything like the "Trail of Tears" in the last 100 years of our history, and our mass murders have typically been lone gunmen, rather than organized militias trying to suppress a minority (referring to American against American killings, not outside attacks). We've moved past some of our flaws, and taken on new ones. Perhaps some day we'll move beyond these ones too, and who knows what our future challenges might be.

Well, since his day we've moved from calling slavery good (and with religious justification ) to calling it , rightfully, evil. Lynchings are also now called evil, rather than having a blind eye turned on them. We aren't forcing native peoples out of their own lands (again often with religious justification) that they've inhabited for centuries with little to no compensation. "Seperate but equal" is also gone. And we aren't being forced out of Missouri. I'd like to think we've made some real positive changes since George Washington's day.

As a friend of mine who adopted twice from Ethiopia put it: "Because that's where my children were." I agree with Backroads, a kid is a kid is a kid, and ALL are deserving of homes.

Shows how much I know, I thought he was already dead.

I agree that it depends on how old YOU are. My husband and I are 5 years 10 months apart. I was 19 and he was 25 when we met (and 20 and two-weeks-shy-of-26 when we married).

I've been hearing a lot of buzz about this one. I'll have to make time to watch it today. :)

I've seen some of their sketches. Many of them are caregivers from Divine Comedy. (BYU' s live sketch comedy group where the actors are from). We've been fans for a few years now. :)

I've been having to use the "hide" button on my feed more and more often lately. It's gotten to be rather annoying and is a definite buzzkill to my enjoyment of Facebook.

I wouldn't mind this so long as rigorous background checks were involved, and some sort of protocol or set of procedures were in place so that it was all spelled out exactly what they *would* and *would not* be allowed to do as part of guarding the school. You're still bringing live firearms around other people's children, and I'd hope there'd still be some sort of set protocol as to *when* that firearm can be used so that there is the least chance possible of an innocent child being shot by the very gun that was supposed to protect it.

My understanding is this is the end of the SS "Tax Holiday" which was always meant to be temporary unless congress renewed it, which they didn't. It was a 1 or 2 year (can't remember which) "holiday" of having only 4% instead of 6% withheld for Social Security.

Are there wards who have lots of musical numbers? Typically the special Primary numbers (Mother's Day, Father's Day, Easter, Christmas, and the Primary Program), and maybe 1 or two ward choir performances (Easter and Christmas) are all we get in my ward.

When I think of "incorrect teachings that need to be corrected" I think of things that are of more doctrinal importance than whether or not children get to sing to their parents in Sacrament meeting on Mother's and Father's Day. The CHI is a handbook, not Scripture. No great harm is done to teaching correct belief in Christ, IMO, by not having the children sing in Sacrament on those days. It's a tradition, not a Doctrine. If the SP was teaching people that we ought to completely disregard the Bible in favor of the Book of Mormon, or that polygamy is something that is okay to still practice today, THEN I'd be all in favor of making a big deal out of it.

How cool! I'd totally go too if I were invited to something like that! Enjoy the experience! :)

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