Comments on: Trotting Out My Turkey http://afterthebubbly.com/trotting-out-my-turkey/ Real life is the real party. Lap it up. Fri, 18 May 2012 11:27:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: DeNae http://afterthebubbly.com/trotting-out-my-turkey/comment-page-1/#comment-1289 DeNae Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:40:45 +0000 http://afterthebubbly.com/?p=787#comment-1289 I've always been a huge fan of teachers giving parents homework. "Pretty sure I passed Home Ec", I would murmur as I read over the costume instructions, "and after that I swore off any domestic venture more creative than keeping laces in both of my kid's shoes." Mormons are domestic marvels from way back. We trot out a picture of our twelve-greats grandmother who crossed the plains as a pioneer, pulling a covered wagon with one hand while delivering her own child with the other, and we chant, "Speak to me, Grandmother. Tell me how you would make this DNA costume sing!" And she says, "I can't. I'm dead." So you're already a better Mormon than me, Lela. My great-grandmother would be so proud. I’ve always been a huge fan of teachers giving parents homework. “Pretty sure I passed Home Ec”, I would murmur as I read over the costume instructions, “and after that I swore off any domestic venture more creative than keeping laces in both of my kid’s shoes.”

Mormons are domestic marvels from way back. We trot out a picture of our twelve-greats grandmother who crossed the plains as a pioneer, pulling a covered wagon with one hand while delivering her own child with the other, and we chant, “Speak to me, Grandmother. Tell me how you would make this DNA costume sing!”

And she says, “I can’t. I’m dead.”

So you’re already a better Mormon than me, Lela. My great-grandmother would be so proud.

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