“God gave me the consolation of contemplating at close range the souls of little children. A poor woman [died when still very young] and left three very little children; during the woman’s illness, we took care of the two little girls; the older one was not yet six.“I spent the whole day with them, and it was a great pleasure for me to see with … [Read more...]
NOT an Acceptable Nickname
My 8th grader was pleased when I brought home a 4-pack of pudding for his school lunch. I told him, “Tell your friends that your momma bought these for you ‘cause you’re her Little Pudding.”He cocked an eyebrow at me.“What?” I said. “It’s true.”“Mom…” He wore that familiar teenaged expression of half amused and half too-cool-to-admit-it.“No … [Read more...]
Just don’t call me Word Monkey
Jem was doing his history vocabulary in the next room. “Mom?” he called out. “Insufferable means obnoxious and difficult to endure, right?”“Yes,” I told him.A minute or two passed and then, “A manuscript is a hand-written book, right?”“Jem,” I said, growing fairly impatient. “Go look your words up in the dictionary if you’re not sure.”“I prefer my … [Read more...]
Another Auld Lang Syne
Subtitled: Where We’ve Been In 2010 Happy New Year! Is it a brand new decade already? Some, like my son, would argue that 2010 marked the start of a brand new decade...but he’s just argumentative in general (thanks to his father) and anyway, according to WikiAnswers, “because there is no 0 AD, the first decade began in the year 1” and therefore, … [Read more...]
So Little Time
As you wait (patiently) to hear the winner of the book give-away, please read this beautiful post by fellow mom blogger Eileen Smithdeal: Warming Up to God.You've heard it before but not quite like this. Such a lovely reflection, and so helpful to me during this (mentally) very busy third week of Advent."And why is getting closer to God painful? … [Read more...]
One of those days when…
…the oven has been preheated for over three hours, waiting for me to bake something. (You think I’m kidding but I’m not.) Still it sits, still it waits, still it wonders…where is she?…the cap on the brand new bottle of baby wash breaks off (naturally) and the bottle of baby wash gets accidentally knocked over onto its side (like, last night?) and … [Read more...]
7 Quick Takes Friday
[Vol. XX for Me]The Flummoxed-By-Life Edition~ Take 1 ~There are days when I should not be teaching.If I must teach on these days, I should do it from…oh, I don’t know…the table at Caribou Coffee while sipping a pumpkin spice latte.Except…would all that caffeine really help my mood, if my mood’s so bad I should not be teaching? Case in point: on … [Read more...]
In the News
Update: It’s today’s paper; I heard from a neighbor. Thanks, Cindy! Does anyone get the Minneapolis Star Tribune? I think I’m quoted in an article today (or it might have been yesterday’s paper) but in any case, you can read it online here: Rising trend: Not bringing up baby.They spelled my name wrong. : )Now I know I’m preaching to the choir here, … [Read more...]
One of those Days…
...when all I want to do is join the toddler on the couch;...when a half-opened container falls out of the over-crowded fridge and lands with a splat on the mat and my feet;...when my bean & bacon soup is met with derision at lunch;...when one son is hard on the other son in public, causing my mother's heart to break and my justice-loving blood … [Read more...]
Silliness
What I dug out of the washing machine this morning:I thought these things were supposed to live on her wrist. … [Read more...]
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