....sent your way with love this Sunday! I had no idea my review made such an impression! Fancy Nancy is number 4 on the New York Times Best Seller list. (Huge wink to be inserted here.) A copy of my baptismal certificate arrived, to my delight! Now isn’t this sweet: I was just a wee 1-week-old baby when I was baptized! Hmm, the date did … [Read more...]
Upon Our Return to Ordinary Time: Part Three
An Ordinary Post by an Ordinary Gal: the Third and Final Post in this Series Warning: it is the intention of this series to deal head-on with the crippling effects of selfishness, envy and depression. If you yourself are more consistently prone to selflessness, joy and optimism, you may want to just move on. III. Depression Well, it is … [Read more...]
Guess Who’s Got a Birthday?!!
For those of you who stopped by today looking for a post on “depression,” I’m afraid I am going to have to ask you to wait another day. I have a much more joyful post to share!You see, a dear friend is having a birthday—and I’d like you to fête her with me!Happy Birthday, Dawn!May your day be every bit as lovely as you are!I doubt that I will be … [Read more...]
Too Sick to Sip
You know that Minnesota Mom is sick if not even a cup of coffee looks appealing.That's right. The stomach flu lottery came 'round again and this time--hooray!--my name was chosen.If you need me I'll be over on the couch. … [Read more...]
Upon Our Return to Ordinary Time: Part Two
Warning: it is the intention of this series to deal head-on with the crippling effects of selfishness, envy and depression. If you yourself are more consistently prone to selflessness, joy and optimism, you may want to just move on.II. EnvyToday I want to take on envy, and I want you to join me.Do you not just hate the way it makes you … [Read more...]
Upon Our Return to Ordinary Time
An Ordinary Post by an Ordinary Gal (The First in a Series)Warning: it is the intention of this series to deal head-on with the crippling effects of selfishness, envy and depression. If you yourself are more consistently prone to selflessness, joy and optimism, you may want to just move on.I. SelfishnessSo. Directly following the publication of my … [Read more...]
Feeling Fancy?
Read Fancy Nancy!My 6-year-old daughter was given this book for Christmas, and both she and her four-year-old sister just love it. Proof of their affection: they carry the book with them from room to room and know most of it by heart.That is because Fancy Nancy speaks directly to the heart of a little girl's fancies. This book is heavy on all … [Read more...]
A Happy Outcome
A copy of my baptismal certificate is speeding its way toward me!It was as simple as placing a call to the parish where I was baptised, which, in my case, was the Church of St. John in the little Minnesotan town of my birth.Which was this town, if you're wondering.The church secretary, a lovely and helpful lady, exclaimed when she heard my maiden … [Read more...]
The Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord
Question: Do you know when and where you were baptised?Or the name of the priest that administered the sacrament?My goal for today is To Find Out.I know some of the details of my birth...that it was late at night when my parents left for the hospital and that the neighbors, who were returning home from a party at that time, hollered out many jovial … [Read more...]
An Early Morning Exchange
Between myself and my four-year-old daughter.Subtitled, "Oh. I see."After seeing her brother and sister pass through the stomach flu and (one might add) directly after playing on the sit-n-spin, Avila announces: "Mommy, I think I am getting a cold because I feel like I’m going to fwoh up!"Me: "Well, you know what to do if you have to, right? … [Read more...]
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