I am:

a passionately opinionated sassy pants.

I am not

cute or crafty, but I wish I could be…

It just doesn’t seem to be part of my destiny.

I am not quite sure what my destiny is–it’s a little murky, but I know it must involve

children

because I have

12 of them–ten homemade and two adopted.

It also seems to involve horses, which is a lovely thing and

moving–a lot of it.

We have been all over the country, city and everywhere in between, and we have even lived in Australia.  We love learning from everywhere we go.

If you’d like to learn more about me, these posts might be helpful:

• The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious
• My Other Valentine
• Wordfull Wednesday: Where I Am From
• Sinking

I think part of my destiny is also to do web design and try to prettify the LDS Women’s Corner of the Internet.  I do this free of charge, but I do like to barter.  I am interested in trading homemade toys, vintage aprons, dresses, costumes, or bread.  If you are interested, you may contact me at jandmranch @ gmail dot com.  Here are some of the places I’ve tried to prettify:

• Women In The Scriptures
• Thoughts From The Hearth
• Mrs. Smith
• Old Fashioned Motherhood
• Welcome To The Madness
• Holly the Homemaker
• Being A Mother Who Knows
• The Gentle Art of Chaos
• Shelves In My Mind
• A Woman With Opinions
• Goodness Matters: Vickey Pahnke Taylor

I think the unknown destiny is what has spurred me to write–it just helps me sort out what I am going to do next, which is always usually a high adventure.  Thank heavens that

Not all who wander are lost…

I am a Latter-day Saint, what most of the world refers to as “Mormon” which is why one of my categories is “Mormon Mom,” but I do prefer to be called LDS, or Latter-day Saint…mostly I am just called “Mom.”  And that’s a good thing.