Wild Voorhies Pack

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I’ve never been a big fan of Halloween. I don’t like either black or orange; I find dressing up annoying; and even as a kid, I didn’t like candy much. (Although I was very fond of…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #1 was born with amblyopia—lazy eye. That meant that his left eye didn’t track with his right. Because the right eye was stronger, it took on the vision for both eyes. Without intervention, the left…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I married a man who loves reptiles. As a kid in Houston, Texas, he caught turtles in the bayou near his house—lots of them. They lived in a Walmart swimming pool in his back yard until…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Daughter #2 was a beautiful baby. People frequently stopped me on the street or in the store to comment on her thick curls, her impossibly long eyelashes, and her luminous dark eyes. When I brought her…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Regardless about which side of the nature vs. nurture argument you fall on, children prove that nature wins. Some come with such strong personalities that even in the womb there are disturbing signs of future temperaments….

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #2 had a rough start. He was born in May three weeks early. We had to drive through a blizzard that dumped almost 6 inches of snow in Cedar City to get to the hospital….

Home is the place where, if you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost One afternoon a couple of my younger kids came racing into the house to announce that a bird was in the tree in the front yard. Glancing at the window, I pointed out that lots of…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost When my husband and I had been married about five years, we moved into a new and growing subdivision in Kearns. It was filled with young families. To remind ourselves what it was like to spend…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My husband has always had a quirky brain. He can execute complex automotive engine schematics, but he had to carry a 3 x 5 card with my name on it in his pocket for the first…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost For a couple of years now, philosophical differences between the Latter-Day Saint Church and the Boy Scouts of America have filled the headlines of newspapers. As the mother of six sons, I too have had some…