On Saturday evening, I set a bottle of Moscato onto the clean, wooden deck to chill.On Sunday evening, I remembered it.Clearly, it’s still winter!So…no going out for dinner yesterday in honor of my husband’s birthday, which is TODAY. He’s 40! Happy birthday, Honey!(Good thing we went out on Friday night to celebrate.)(And a good thing, too, that … [Read more...]
Mean People Got…No Reason
Our first family-sized vehicle was a Honda Odyssey. How HUGE it seemed when I first started driving it. It terrified me, and yet......as you can see, I have since made the adjustment to driving largish vehicles.One of the first things I did when we got the Odyssey was accessorize it--not with fuzzy dice or scented pine trees, mind, but rather...my … [Read more...]
Calling All Catholic Dads!
I'm writing an article about passing the faith onto our children, and desperately need your input. Please email me at mom4life[at]comcast[dot]net if you'd be willing to share your thoughts with me.Thank you! … [Read more...]
Minnesota Winters: How We Cope
Part II(You can read Part I here.)Even though the Arctic air has gone away, we still have thirteen days left in the month of February, and once those red & pink decorations come down, whadda we got? Nothin'! Not 'til the green of St. Patrick's day, anyway, and even then it's still not spring.Not in the great state of Minnesota, anyway.Here we … [Read more...]
Signed, Sealed, Slurped & Delivered
Today was such a very nice day. I ate too much sugar but still, it was nice.This is the photo that we emailed the grandparents. (Sorry, Joe! That's what you get for going to school.) Correction: this is the photo we emailed to most of the grandparents. My mom & dad don't own a computer, so I had to come up with a different plan of action for … [Read more...]
Hearts & Kisses
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.–ShakespeareOr, on a slightly more modern note…Embrace me, my sweetembraceable you!–GershwinHappy St. Valentine’s Day! … [Read more...]
Arachni-Bathroom
I have a really bad habit of leaving my mugs and water glasses lying around. See that coffee cup on the classroom shelf? That'd be Maggie's from two days ago. See that glass on top of the dresser? Yep, that one's been there just as long.What's worse, there is usually a half inch or so of liquid still in the cup, which either A. Evaporates away, … [Read more...]
Food for Thought
“We get robbed of the glory of life because we aren’t capable of remembering how we got here. When you are born, you wake slowly to everything. Your brain doesn’t stop growing until you turn twenty-six, so from birth to twenty-six, God is slowly turning the lights on, and you’re groggy and pointing at things saying circle and blue and car and then … [Read more...]
Minnesota Winters
How We Cope (Part I)Ed. Note: These photos were taken on a winter's day at dusk in Minnesota. They are bluish-cold and coldish-blue. Take pity on the photographer!This was our mean ol' thermometer last week.It's mad at me because of that yarn at its base.I really ought to just cut that off. It's a holdover from a wee frozen wreath that … [Read more...]
Scenes from the Feast
Subtitled: I ate, drank, and made merry...and now this morning I must diet.So tell me. Did you watch the game?And if you did, ate you Doritos?That picture of Angela pretty much sums up our evening: soda, chips, eyes fixed to the screen.~ Photo by Felicity ~ Except at the end when there was that 3-point difference. I couldn't look!(But I … [Read more...]
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