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After I Do: Blending Families (Part 3)
Last time, I shared some things Josiah and I do to help foster unity in our family sides. Today, I'll share things parents can do to foster the same. I don't have first-hand experience in this area, so my opinions are shaped by what our parents do and how it feels to...
After I Do: Blending Families (Part 2)
Last time, I shared about some of the strategies Josiah and I implemented in the first year of marriage to encourage unity between our family units. Here are a few more. 4. Participate! Whether it's a project, a group dinner, a board game night, I'm usually the one...
After I Do: Blending Families
Josiah and I grew up in families that have as many differences as similarities. Pigfords cleaned every day. Multiple times a day. In 15 minutes or less. Clean = Tidy. Trumpowers cleaned less often, but it was a major event when it happened. Clean = Disinfected....
One Thing I Want You to Know
Dear Future Kids: Hey there. It's Mom. You don't exist yet. Dad and I are excited for you to be here one day. I've looked forward to being your mom for a long time. We talk about you a lot. We just got married, you see, which means we spend a lot of time doing gross...
Divorce Papers
Unlike the other Notes from Behind the Library Desk stories, this one has real-world junk. May we all try to ground our marriages in the security that comes from an active relationship with God. At the Reference Desk, we provide legal paperwork for people to purchase....
Librarian Arrested in Presidential Assassination Plot
A phone conversation during the November 2017 presidential election: Woman: Hi honey. I moved and I left my dictionary behind. Can you tell me what a round building is called? Me: I believe "rotunda" is the word for a round building. Woman: Rotundee? Interesting. Now...
Snakes
To say that I am afraid of snakes in the way most women are assumed to be is like saying the sun and a light bulb both provide light. While technically true, the disproportionate amount of power between them renders similarities irrelevant. And so, I've always feared...
Library Rascals
Conversations and quotes from my posse of Library Rascals. I love them so much! Me: Whoa, Conner, what's the bat for? Conner (age 11): To knock the fudge out of stuff. Eleri (age 11, going on 21): I’m not worried. I have a lawyer. He’s the smartest kid in the fourth...
Things I’ve Seen
Witnessed in the stacks, on the floor, or (heaven help us) at the desk. AM phone customer: Can you tell me what the local arson laws are? PM phone customer: I need to know the proper procedure for working with a dead body. Woman with long grey hair and a Doctor Who...
Life Story
A phone conversation at the Reference Desk: Woman: I need the phone number for Kroger's. <me: provides phone number> Woman: Thanks, hon. Are you doing anything for Christmas? We're just staying home. Homebodies all, that's what we are. We went on a trip once in...
