Ofrenda

Mormons really stress family history.

It's usually because, or in part at least because, they want you to find your ancestors to see if they were Mormon or not, so you can do, like, their work for them, like baptisms for the dead and doing their temple work for them.

You have to, like, track down their names and records in order to do that, so don't love that.

Don't love doing religious work like that for dead people, but do really like the focus on ancestry and family lineage and knowing about the family members who came before.

Someone said, "When I was a young kid, maybe between four and five, I would get put in time-out often because I was always having a temper tantrum about something.

Once, I came out of my room and pointed to a photo of my grandpa, my dad's father, who I never met because he passed away before any of us kids were born, and I told my mom, 'That man told me I need to be nice to you.' I'm sure my mom was like, 'Okay, spooky kid,' but she was like, 'Well, you definitely should listen to him.'" [laughs]Yeah, I might use that one to my advantage as a mom if that ever happened with my kids.

My daughters actually at school, they have a fall festival, and part of the fall festival is doing an ofrenda, if that's the correct pronunciation, O-F-R-E-N-D-A, which is, like, my first familiarity with this was in Coco, the Disney movie.

But it's like an altar to people who have died, loved ones who have died, and so they just sent out an email asking for photographs of loved ones who have died.