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7 Quick Takes Friday

by Filed Under: Family Fun, Minnesota Me, Special Events, The Faith 8 Comments

[Vol. XVIII for Me]The “Help! I’m-Trapped-in-the-CVBS-Nursery!” Edition~ Take 1 ~Having taken last summer off to—oh, I don’t know, have a baby or something—I am back in the Bible School daycare this year as a volunteer.~ Take 2 ~My son is happy with this choice, as it affords him ample opportunities to flirt with the teenage helpers.~ Take 3 ~I do … [Read more...]

On Seeing the Author Kate DiCamillo

by Filed Under: Minnesota Me, Special Events 12 Comments

(And On Gushing When I Did So)It’s hard not to get one’s hopes up when attending a famous writer’s talk. Will I get to meet her?Will she think I’m cool?Will we become fast friends and coffee buddies?The answer, in this case, is a single word: No.No, no, and again, no.What’d I expect? It was Kate DiCamillo.And there were hundreds of other people … [Read more...]

My Tiny Dancer

by Filed Under: Felicity, Growing Up, Minnesota Me, Special Events 22 Comments

Part II(Read Part I here.)We only have one daughter who’s in dance right now—my middle girl, my littlest girl.“Little” as in petite itself.Petite as petite can be.Now then. What with all my blogging about baseball and soccer—all the good-natured complaining about simultaneous games and chilly venues—I haven’t said much about Felicity’s sport. I … [Read more...]

Faith and Freedom

by Filed Under: Friends of the Heart, Gratitude, Minnesota Me, Special Events 8 Comments

I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m freeAnd I won’t forget the ones who died who gave that right to meAnd I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land…God bless the USA. (from “God Bless the USA,” written by Lee Greenwood and sung by Dolly Parton) There were many, many times … [Read more...]

11 Years Ago Today

by Filed Under: Minnesota Me, My Boys, Special Events 6 Comments

…it was also Memorial Day, and I was in a hospital in Newton, Mass. delivering my newborn bundle of baby boy!Sigh. It seems like yesterday.Happy Birthday, Jem!You are everything we’d hoped for in a 2nd son—down-to-earth, responsible, and hilarious. With your brother away at school this past year, you have stepped up to the plate in ways unexpected … [Read more...]

Catholic Home Educators Unite!

by Filed Under: Homeschooling, Minnesohta, Minnesota Me, Special Events 12 Comments

The 2010 EditionWell, the Minnesota Catholic Home Education conference is over and now it is time to pay the piper. That is to say, it’s time to clean my neglected house...and do the laundry...and feed my family.Because I haven’t done any of these things for the past two weeks.And it was worth it.That vine-covered building in the photo up there? … [Read more...]