Tracie A. Lamb
Tracie A. Lamb {[email protected]} is a recorder of people’s lives, both her own and others’. She compiled and edited the biography of her mission president, F. Enzio Busche, in Yearning for the Living God (Deseret Book, 2004). She has helped family members and friends chronicle their personal histories and has published a number of her own personal essays. She is currently researching the lives of her great-grandfather and his two wives, a Shoshone woman and a Mormon pioneer. She is able to pursue her interests with the support and encouragement of her dear husband, Bruce Smith.
More Musings on Motherhood
Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 2
I was unprepared when my daughters became teenagers. In fact, I was blindsided by this phase of life. I never claimed to have native talent in mothering; but after years of study and practice, I thought I had gotten the hang of it a little. I have been proven sadly mistaken.
As I expressed in my first essay on motherhood, written more than a decade ago, I found motherhood both exhilarating and overwhelming; but I never doubted that I would be a mother. As a good Mormon girl, I always had marriage and motherhood as my ultimate objectives. Even though I was also a returned missionary with a graduate degree, my life was not complete until I had children.
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