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My name is Hildie. I'm smart, I'm sassy, I'm sarcastic. Sometimes I'm nice, too. I'm a mom of six and wife of one.

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Since I'm Mormon and church stuff comes up frequently, I thought I would provide a little glossary for terms you may not know:
First of all church is three hours long on Sunday. Whew! It's divided into three meetings:

Sacrament Meeting-the main church meeting, like Mass. The speakers are almost always members of the congregation. Anyone over the age of 12 can be asked to speak.

Sunday School-divided up by age (adults all go together) about 45 min long.

Relief Society-women's meeting, about 45 min.(the kids go to Primary, Men go to Priesthood meeting, teenage girls go to Young Womens). There is a also a once a month "casual, fun" meeting. I'm in charge of helping plan those meetings.

Celestial Kingdom-Heaven

Bishop-the leader of the congregation

Visiting teachers-all Mormon women are given a partner and assigned 2-4 women that they visit, call, give baked goods to every month.

Ward-the local congregation. It's all arranged geographically, so where you live determines where (and when) you go to church.

Mr. Hildie (a.k.a. Mister) (age 40something)-Funny, thoughtful, passionate, maddening husband.

India (girl, age 16)-Smart and always does the right thing.

York (boy, age 15)-Nerdy and proud of it.

Finn (boy, age 13)-Quiet unless he's talking about cars.

Arabella (girl, age 10)-Thoughtful and gentle.

Adelaide "Ada" (girl, age 6)-Saucy and unafraid.

Jasper (boy, age 5)-Sweet as sugar.