The Smiling-Slurping-Smacking Six-Month-Old EditionEd. Note: A year ago today, I was waiting & watching & wondering & worrying. “Would this be a sticky baby or not?” He was, and this Advent is oh so different.PS. And did you hear Kristen’s news?!! … [Read more...]
Thanksgiving 2009
Subtitled: Over the (Red) River and Through the Woods to Aunt Mary’s House We WentYou’ve seen the movie Fargo, maybe? Well, in real life, it’s much much better……because that’s where my family is.Food, fun, football, family. Yesterday, we had it all.Emphasis on food & family.Anthony, in particular, was so happy to see his grandma and grandpa … [Read more...]
On Gratitude and Giving Thanks
I’ve got, like, five minutes to do this blog post in between baking a cherry pie & sautéing the caramelized onions with thyme & stirring the sauce for the maple-glazed carrots with whiskey. “Why can’t you ever just make one thing?” my husband wondered.Because it’s family.We will be spending the day four hours north of here—in the largest … [Read more...]
At the Art Museum
On Wednesday we went to an art museum.We were supposed to go the day before, but some of us couldn’t find our shoes.Do you ever have days like that?So Wednesday it was and on Wednesday we went, to a museum across the river. (It’s rather hard to read the name of it, isn’t it? That’s so you can’t stalk me.)I gave the kids the standard lecture before … [Read more...]
Notes from Yesterday
It’s the weekend, which in my case means more relaxed blogging!(Though granted, this blog has been pretty consistently relaxed since…oh… Baby Anthony was born 4 months ago. Who’s got time to be cerebral?)(Don’t answer that.)Here I am with our birthday breakfast of choice: rich & buttery, hot & caramely Monkey Bread.(Note the little monkey … [Read more...]
A Guardian Angels Story for You
[And one that’s true, to boot.]Once upon a time, my dear older sister was living on a farm in North Dakota and teaching CCD once a week at the local church. (She’s still living in North Dakota, by the way, but that’s neither here nor there.)One crisp Autumn evening, she grabbed her coat and headed out. A half an hour later, the phone rang and my … [Read more...]
An Apple (or Two) for the Teacher
When I shuffled downstairs for my coffee this morning, this is what I found:Someone appears to have been busy in the kitchen. I wonder who.When I found a cryptic symbol on my coffee filter I began to worry.Don’t nobody mess with the Momma’s coffee. It’s one of my most important rituals of the day.(Okay, it’s THE most important ritual of my … [Read more...]
The Triumph of the Cross
Subtitled: This & That on a MondayToday is such a powerful feast day. Think about it. Our salvation came—and comes—via the cross. Do we dare embrace it? And do we ask for help to embrace it?* * *I am still thinking about the events of September 11, 2001 this morning. Have you had a chance to read the comments on my post? Wow. My heart goes … [Read more...]
Our Grandma & Grandpa went to Croatia…
...and all they brought us back were these cool caps!Thank you, Grandma & Grandpa. We love the caps and we love you.On behalf of the above five fashion plates, … [Read more...]
Welcomed to the (Spiritual) World
“Once you were all darkness. Now, in the Lord, you are all light.”(Ephesians 5:8)So we were at a 4th of July party on the day before Anthony’s baptism and I was complaining good-naturedly to a friend at the buffet table. “What was I thinking, scheduling a baptism for the day after the 4th? I’m going crazy with all this planning!”Elizabeth is one of … [Read more...]
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