MormonDaddyBlogs — 2012 April

Motivation can be a four-letter word, especially when you want to do something and you know you should be doing something, but things get in the way.

Chas Hathaway is an author, musician, blogger, and Mormon father of four rambunctious munchkins, all under the age of 7. They are, as Chas calls them, “A Blast.”

He shares his thoughts and talents at his website: Overtones and Ice Cream Cones, The Blathering, Chattering, and Musical Clattering of Author and Musician, Chas Hathaway.

Check out his thoughts about how he stays motivated as a husband, author, musician and dad on his post: Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation.

My Peeps

April 7, 2012 by Dennis

Going off the rails a little bit for this one, in that it’s a post by a Mormon mommy (gasp!). But it is, frankly, too good to resist, and it has a nice little message for our Mormon daddy community, too.

Kacy Faulconer speaks beautifully of what it means to be enmeshed in a ward of her “peeps,” fellow Lattter-day Saints, with all their weirdnesses mixed in with their beautiful acts of kindness. (My favorite line: “Every ward has a few weirdos and if yours doesn’t–it’s you.”)

“Peeps in my ward plan parties for me that I don’t even want to go to like they are some over-eager friend. But then I go (begrudgingly) and it’s fun and good. I used to plan those parties for them and they came (begrudgingly) and it was fun and good. Left to my own devices I would stay home and do nothing (don’t get me wrong–this is not without merit) but sometimes a little nudge to do more is OK. You can’t anticipate what you’re going to get from these peeps because you don’t always know what you need. I didn’t know I needed a frozen chocolate drumstick with nuts from my gal-pal/80-year-old neighbor yesterday but as it turned out, it hit the spot quite nicely.”

This Easter season, Kacy’s post, which you can read here, hit the spot quite nicely.