Because obviouslyI can’t get enoughof them.Or of my zoom lens.Or of my sweetie pie little girl.Of all my children (and believe me, I love them all with the ferocity of a mother bear gone mad) Felicity is the one that I would keep for a few more years as is. I keep looking for some sort of fixative that I could spray on her to stop the growing……but … [Read more...]
The Morning After
...a first sacrament.My husband is so embarrassed that I should blog this photo. I maintain that you can and will relate! (Well, perhaps 90% of you.) Yesterday was wonderful, spiritual, fun-filled and exhausting. After our guests left at 3:00 p.m. or so, I retired to this room to (you're hoping I'm going to say “to clean”, aren't you?) take a nap, … [Read more...]
Keyed
If my 3-year-old should vanish from the face of this blog, you'll know the reason.That would be Sharpie marker.And she would be in her room.Updated to Add: Goo Gone did the trick! Thanks to some serious elbow grease on the part of my dear husband, there now remains but the faintest trace of purple on the keys. Our three-year-old, too, seems to have … [Read more...]
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
(Provided that You Open it the First Time)You know that Christmas present from Grandma that’s been sitting in your basement?That combination Family Game House (10 Classic Games in One!) and Children’s Game House (6 Classic Games in One!) or, if you prefer, that Casa de Juegos Familiares and Casa de Juegos de los Ninos ?The one that’s been down … [Read more...]
Feeling Social Saturday
It’s 8:00 in the morning and the day stretches out before me, broad and full of possibility.Only one other member of my family is awake besides me—Felicity—who is quietly working on her coloring and cutting at the kitchen table. The house is still. My mind is calm.Now’s the time to make my list. Now’s the time for planning! I simply have to do my … [Read more...]
On the List Today
We have a depressingly long list of errands to run this morning—dentist at 9:00, doctor at 10:00, piano at 11:00. Bleh! Lately we are not home schoolers but rather, back-of-the-van paperback bookers.Fortunately, there is a light at the end of the morning’s tunnel in the form of this store—one of my favorite little shops, truly—where I will be … [Read more...]
Spring Cleaning for the Soul
Oh how precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it. Who can assure us that we will be alive tomorrow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice of the royal prophet: “Today if you hear God's voice, harden not your heart.” Let us not put off for one moment to another what we “should” do, because the next … [Read more...]
Adaptation
Subtitled: We. Are. Burned. Out.For all my joking about the winter weather in Minnesota, you can be assured that it is wearing on me. I never saw the movie The Shining in its entirety—for good reason—but I do recall the scene where the writer, having been cooped up in that crazy lodge for far too long a season, sits down at the typewriter and … [Read more...]
Feeling Social Saturday
The sun is shining and the meteorologist has promised us temps that are almost balmy. We Minnesotans get very excited about 30-degree weather in February. It’s pretty sad, really.Sub-Degree Sports in MinnesotaSubtitled: Table Tennis Consequently we will be spending a large portion of our day outside, soaking up some vitamin D and breathing in … [Read more...]
Illness Update
Mom is on the mend, thanks be to God & your get-well greetings. The worst of it was over once I’d…er…been divested of my lunch & breakfast (in that order). Why couldn't it have been a fast day? After that, though, it was just a question of lots of bed rest (for Mom) and frozen pizza for the kids.Thank you to Laura my favorite crazy mama for … [Read more...]
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