We prayed…and got our May baby.He wasn’t due until the 8th of June, you know, but what Mary wants, Mary gets! Especially when it’s at the request of another momma! : )To our Stephen, Happy Birthday! And to the rest of you, a very blessed Feast of the Visitation!Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com … [Read more...]
Watch this Space
Because we finally bought a camera and will finally be able to post some photos.Just in time, eh? : )Thank you for all of your recommendations! We went with a Canon PowerShot, which will hopefully give us a lot of bang for our buck before we bang it to bits like the last ones. … [Read more...]
Purely Anecdotal
Son Number 1 to Son Number Two: “Guys like you should not be using tasers.”This is what I overhear as I am passing by the kitchen computer.Just keep moving, Mom. There’s a nice relaxing game of “Okay, you be the mommy kitty and I’ll be the baby” going on in the next room.* * * * *My daughter spilled half a box of cheerios … [Read more...]
Maggie’s Weekend Update
The Point/Counterpoint Version On the one hand, I got so sick on Pentecost Sunday that I was not able to attend Mass after all. And here I had so looked forward to greedily gathering up all those graces! (A plenary indulgence! Sigh!) There was no way I could have attended, as I was visiting the bathroom (Hello! How are you? Me? Well, I’m a bit … [Read more...]
Memorial Day 2007
~ To all our fallen soldiers withlove and gratitude ~You are gone but not forgotten.In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and … [Read more...]
A Pentecost Primer
I love the feast of Pentecost and could probably spend all year preparing to celebrate it. As it is, I am just busy enough these days to be happy with a week’s worth of preparation, which is the time I had this time around.I know the Holy Spirit understands. ;)This past week, then, found us learning (and relearning) the seven gifts of the Holy … [Read more...]
In Memoriam
In honor of Poetry Friday, yes, but also (and more importantly),in honor of all our soldiersL. Be near me when my light is low,When the blood creeps, and the nerves prickAnd tingle; and the heart is sick,And all the wheels of Being slow.Be near me when the sensuous frameIs rack’d with pangs that conquer trust;And Time, a maniac scattering dust,And … [Read more...]
The Receipt Meme
I followed with interest the bag meme, as seen here and here and here and innumerable other places. Alas, because of my recent debacle with a smallish black electronic object (aka our Nikon), I was unable to participate. (I did, however, come away with the idea for a great new bag for Mother’s Day!)Feeling somewhat lip-quiveringly left out of the … [Read more...]
Planned Parenthood is Evil
This is where I rail.The FDA has approved a birth control pill that ends a woman’s monthly period.According to an article published in the Washington Post, “Lybrel is designed for women who find their periods too painful, unpleasant or inconvenient and want to be free of them.”What a wonderful world it will be when we women are delivered from … [Read more...]
Fun with Metaphors
You know your husband has been obsessing about his fish tank stuff too much when, upon turning the corner and nearly stepping on his daughter, he exclaims, “Oh! Little floor-covering sponge!”I am always humored (or chagrined, depending on how clean the linoleum is) at how my children think nothing of being splayed out in a heap in the middle of the … [Read more...]
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