These are the posts in which I express something I strongly believe in, and sometimes they end up a bit controversial.
- Disney Princesses are Bad Role Models - Why I want to avoid the Disneyfication of my daughters
- Making Baby Murray - An online fundraising campaign for my sister and brother in law so they can afford their infertility treatments
- Why the French like the Millenium more than any other Nationality - Observations about French numbers
- My Feelings about America's Next Top Model - What I think of this disgusting, addicting TV show
- Home Sweet Farm CSA -A truly wonderful organization about which I could rave all day
- The Best Husband in the World and why I don't blog about it - ..except, I did
- Why I wish the Brothers Chaps would have spoken at my college graduation - Proof that I am a Homestar Runner groupie.
- Swimming Pools and Young Children: Are they a good or a bad thing? - Why I am glad we have a pool, and not (too) terrified of having children concurrently with the pool
Major Life Moments
This is basically a chronology of my life in blog format.
- I waited for a missionary! - My post upon Danny's return from a 2 year mission in San Bernardino, CA
- New Teacher - My first day working at Renaissance Academy as a Middle School Arabic Teacher
- I'm Engaged! - Danny's proposal
- Birth Story of Jane Elizabeth Challis - All the nitty gritty details
- By the way I graduated - I wore sneakers to my BYU Graduation; hey I was about one month postpartum!
- I quit my job and started a new one - How I decided to become a SAHM
- Houston - The move to Texas
Pregnancy
These posts are highlights from the past two years, in which I have been continuously pregnant. Well, I guess there was a 5 month break in there, but it sure didn't feel like it!
- I have to pee x A BILLION - One of my first posts about being pregnant with Jane
- Baby 2 - Announcement and ultrasound of Baby Dan
- Failing to take an STD test can result in Child Abuse Allocations in Texas - My discovery that we had to pay over $100 to find out that I don't have an STD, or being told to my face that my husband could be cheating on me
- "Hey Kate, You're Fat!" - Or the Top Ten Things not to say to Pregnant People
- "Um, excuse me, but can you please help me with my HEMORRHOIDS?" - Embarrassing pregnancy moment in Target
Motherhood and Parenting
These posts are all about my experiences as a Stay At Home Mom (SAHM), including breastfeeding, epiphanies on motherhood, and teaching my children.
- Nursing - My early thoughts and feelings about breastfeeding
- Chores - How people in the past did theirs and how I discovered I needed a plan to do mine (not that I stuck to it...)
- The Most Important - Families are Forever and they are more important than anything else, and how I realized this
- Signs Jane Can Do - Brag-post about how awesomely intelligent Jane is, and why baby signing is super cool
Politics
I do have political views other than about health care, I just haven't blogged much about them...
- Congress Debates Troop Withdrawal from Iraq - I agreed with Mike Pence in 2007.
- The Challis Bipartisan List of 21 Things Government should do to Reform Health Care - But instead they passed a massive, terrifying Health Care law
- Is Health Care a Right or a Commodity? - How can we afford to mandate health care vs. how can we afford not to
Testimony Building Moments
These are posts about spiritual experiences I've had.
- Miracle - In which a series of coincidences landed me some lodgings
- Mormon Handcart Visitor Center and Museum - My experience at the Second Most Visited Tourist Site in Wyoming
- Life Sucks - Learning to get over myself
- My take on Deuteronomy 22:11 - Interpretation of what it means to mix wool and linen and why that's even an issue in Jewish Law
