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I am no Molly Mormon. So... am I ok?

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A Molly Mormon is a term for the popular stereotype of a female member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). She is thought to be the "perfect Mormon woman". Her children are well-behaved, she home cans goods straight from her garden, she knits, sows, she gives away selfmade scrapbooking cards and she prepares amazing lessons.(She is not me.) Not a common "Molly Mormon" interest There are quite a few women who seem to be this perfect version and we look to them as something we cannot achieve. Thing is, I can't knit, I can't sow - I can almost hear the sewing machine make this *Mohahaha* laughter when I come close, because something goes wrong within seconds and I achieve nothing. I have never canned anything and my garden consists, as of now, a Rosmary. In addition, my health is not perfect, so I am striving to do the everyday things, and I constantly feel I am not doing enough in most parts of my life, as a wife, as a moth