Camian Academy

Sonlight’s Bible curriculum has you read parts of the Bible each year so that over 6 years you read the whole thing. We’re reading Genesis right now. A few days ago we read the part about Abraham and the covenant with God that required all males to be circumcised.

As I was reading Ani got more and more agitated. She was looking quite concerned. Finally she said “Mommie” in a horrified voice and pointed to her three little brothers. I knew exactly what she meant. Our boys are not circumcised and here I was reading that all males must be circumcised.

I explained to her that we are no longer under that law and circumcision (or not) is a personal choice and not a religious requirement for us. She was very relieved to hear that. (And I was very happy that she was comprehending what I was reading!)

Fritz has started using universal names for women, men, children, and babies. All women are named “Mommie.” All men are “Daddy.” All children are called “Ani.” And all babies are “Ella” according to Fritz (Ella is my friend’s almost 8 month old).

Fritz absolutely loves Little Einsteins. That’s not the weird part. (That they have a Wikipedia page kind of is, but I digress.) One of the times Jamie watched an episode of it with Fritz he noticed something strange about the opening.

There’s a close-up of the four kids in the rocket right at the very beginning and only one child is moving their mouth. Annie. But it’s not Annie’s voice singing. It is clearly just Quincy’s voice singing. So now every time we start a Little Einsteins it’s a bit weird to see a girl’s mouth moving and a boy’s voice singing. Oops.

Recently on the LDS Parenting board on JustMommies a women who is interested in the church posted. She said her aunt had told her some things about the church that freaked her out. Well, I would have been freaked out by them, too!

1.) Satan lives in the water so we don’t swim.

Odd to say the least, and so not true. We most definitely can and do swim and we wear normal bathing suits, too (though most LDS women choose not to wear bikinis due to the immodesty of them). Now, I told my friend that one and she said she had heard that myth, but it was just in reference to missionaries. It is true that the full-time missionaries do not go swimming. But it isn’t because of Satan living in (or controlling as my friend was told) the water. It’s mostly because the missionaries have a lot of other things to do and there’s no time for swimming.

2.) Her aunt was supposedly asked by a man to become his second wife.

The old multiple wives thing. No, we do not practice polygamy (that was stopped a long, long time ago). Anyone who does today would be excommunicated. And a man could not simply ask a woman to become his second wife. It just didn’t work that way.

3.) When a boy turns 18 he is forced to go on a mission or he is banned from the church.

We do send a lot of our boys on missions (at 19), but it is their choice. No one is excommunicated simply for not going on a mission.

4.) If virginity is lost before marriage, they will be banned from the church.

Also not true (they actually don’t excommunicate people all that often - it takes a lot for it to happen). While we do believe that sex outside of marriage is a sin, we also believe that Jesus died for our sins and repentance is always possible.

There’s a lot of myths out there about our church. Many more than those four. We’re peculiar enough as it is and people who make up this sort of stuff make us look near crazy to be members. Anyone care to share some of the myths they’ve heard/been told?

Cameron lost not just his first tooth last night but his second as well.

So this has been popping up on blogs I read and I can’t handle the peer pressure anymore. Here’s how it goes:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn’t matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It’s actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I’ll assume you’re playing the game and I’ll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don’t want to play on your blog, or if you don’t have a blog, I’ll leave my memory of you in my comments.

So there you go. What do you remember about me (whether in real life or on-line since many people reading this live exclusively in my computer)?

When I just had Ani and Cameron I hated the idea of a schedule. I like to do what I want to do when I want to do it. Once Fritz got close to toddlerhood I started thinking a schedule wouldn’t be so bad. Ani thrives on routine and basically begged me to make a schedule for her. I never thought I’d say it, but I am loving having a schedule. It makes our day go so much smoother when we follow it.

Now, granted, our schedule is not rigid by any means and Adrian’s column simply “Whatever he wants to do!” For the rest of us, there’s a lot of free time built in between our scheduled activities. The evening isn’t scheduled at all between dinner and bedtime routine.

I was wrong totally and completely wrong to think schedules were terrible, horrible things. Instead, our schedule has made such a difference that now I actually enjoy checking the schedule sticky-tacked to our wall to see what comes next.