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Pickle Week in Review

by Filed Under: Food and Drink, Give-Aways, Minnesota Me 11 Comments

And you thought I’d forgotten.Well, I haven’t.The winner of (2) (Count ‘em) 2 (!) bags of pickle-flavored Giants sunflower seeds is:Jenny! Please send me your address, Jenny, so that I can mail your prize and stop tormenting my sons, who keep asking for permission to Eat. Your. Seeds.No, Joe, you may not have those. Sorry, Jem. Those are for … [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...]

On Being One (Part II)

by Filed Under: Growing Up, Minnesota Me, New Baby 7 Comments

So yeah. I’m definitely more comfortable with crawling at this point.Hey, everybody’s different! Mom says that my brother Joe was walking by his first birthday and so was my sister Cate.The rest of my siblings, though? Slackers all, like me!In fact, my sister Felicity had a nickname. Mom and Dad called her “the paperweight” because wherever you sat … [Read more...]

On Being One (Part I)

by Filed Under: Growing Up, Minnesota Me, New Baby 6 Comments

Hey! There’s a great big yard back there.You know what I’m thinking? I’m thinking I’m gonna just go on down and have some fun.I’m thinking I need to be down in that grass. I’m thinking I’m gonna walk down there. I’m gonna do it! I’m totally gonna walk down there!What? You don’t believe me?Fine. I’m letting go now.See? I did it. Now I just need to … [Read more...]