A week and a half ago Iris and Arthur Lyndaker and their family of 5 children came to stay in the guesthouse. They live in Poplar Hill, a reserve. Arthur leads Akwachink, which is a wilderness and leadership training for Rosedale. A group of youth go out on a 2-week canoe trip with him.
The first week the Lyndakers slept upstairs, but shared our kitchen and living room. Iris and I spent a fair amount of that week doing food prep for the trip. I helped her bag all kinds of food and make bannock mix and trail bread and hot chocolate mix. Our kids, of course, have absolutely loved having them here. Their kids are ages 3 - 11.
Arthur and the Akwachink group left Sunday morning and Kendra, who lives on the other side of this duplex, went along to help lead. So since then, Iris and the kids have been using her kitchen and living room. Even so, our kids are together all the time and we've still been sharing some meals. We've been eating breakfast together and tonight we had supper together. Iris and I are back and forth all day. We both took turns running errands today and leaving our kids. I've really enjoyed her.
At one point today, Iris asked me, "Do you think this is how it is for Mormons?" She meant, two women, each with their own children, sort of living in the same house and working together. Hey, if you take out all the bad stuff, like sharing a husband, competition, jealousy, etc., I think I might kind of like it!
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You could have added "Muslim" to that question. I observed one household this summer that struck me as about as positive as it could it: the first wife wasn't able to have children, so the husband took a second younger wife who had five children. Now the older wife is like a grandmother figure to the children, and the two wives seemed to function pretty well together.
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