I didn’t explicitly ask for prayer alongside the suggestions listed below, but I’ll be darned if there weren’t a couple sent my way. I hope there were prayers, in any case! Otherwise, this sunny mood of mine has no explanation whatsoever.Just between you and me, though? It got worse—much worse—before it got better.This self-centered depression has … [Read more...]
A Big Fat Bleg
Any advice on how this homeschooling mom might survive the last long month of pregnancy, given that it coincides with the end of the school year? I'll gladly welcome any words of counsel that you can send my way. … [Read more...]
Future Tense
We received an overdue notice on one of my son's library books yesterday. I tend to forget about his account, finding it a big enough challenge to keep track of ours. (We are currently at a record low, with only 74 books checked out.)And so wincing and gulping, I went to his online account to see the fees that he'd accumulated. $8.65, huh? Well, … [Read more...]
Bone Tired
(Not that you can see my bones these days.)Completely, overwhelmingly, mind-numbingly tired.Other than that, though, I’m well.How are you? : ) … [Read more...]
It’s the Triduum!
Don’t you just feel…different today somehow? It’s as if God is pulling us ever closer, saying, “The promise and joy of Easter are looming, but the love—this infinite, unfathomable love—has never left you.”Something like that.Because I am 33 weeks pregnant today and am, therefore, even more crazy & hormonal than usual, I decided this morning to … [Read more...]
Pure Conjecture
Let’s suppose—hypothetically, of course—that you are hugely pregnant and are craving, oh, Doritos. Let’s suppose that you ask your husband to make a late night run to the convenience store to buy you, say, some Doritos. Loving husband that he is, let’s suppose that he has his coat on faster than you can say “Cool Ranch” and is back before you know … [Read more...]
A Corny Request
…and other thoughts.Happy 5th Sunday of Lent, everyone! How is it going?I will tell you that I had an…interesting week, in that I tried to go without my beloved morning cup of half-caff. My motives were two-part—one, I would sacrifice the taste of the coffee, which I love, and two, I would cut way back on my caffeine consumption and as such, be a … [Read more...]
Click
Every day for the past week, I have come this blog to publish a post and I have eyed that little green baby ticker on the right-hand column. (“Green” because we don’t know what we’re having. No, I guess we do know: we are having a boy. Or a girl.)I have been waiting for it to turn over to what, for me, is a magical number…...and this morning, it … [Read more...]
Not Exactly My Planned Penance
I know that we’re supposed to be open to God’s will throughout the 40 days of Lent. I know this; it’s Spiritual Theology 101.Crafty Father that He is, though, He has sent me a penance I didn’t anticipate but evidently needed—and it’s a penance that concerns walking.As in, by mid-afternoon I often can’t. (I think it’s sciatic nerve thing, though my … [Read more...]
27 Weeks on the 27th
I was going to participate in Jen’s 7 Quick Takes today but I just don’t have it in me. Too much time at the computer and my back cries out in protest…too much time spent on any activity and my back cries out in protest.This is why:You see how much I love you, right? I am willing to drag my massive frame and aching back out into a raging Minnesota … [Read more...]
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