Lots of Coffee, lots of kids. It's a peaceful life.
This post is dedicated to everyone who's feeling boxed in by life: the fed-up, the lonely, the huddled, the cold. The temperature is {minus} ten degrees right now. I get the idea of being huddled and cold. I would like to go back to my "Voices" post today, in part because it was just so darn cheerful. ("Cheerful" in, like, the total buzz … [Read more...]
Notes from the Chesterton Gala "There are no uneducated people. Everybody...is educated, only most people are educated wrong." G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World Seven years ago this March, my husband and I were in Hawaii. {sigh} I mention this trip for two reasons: one, it's 0 degrees outside right now and those memories of … [Read more...]
Who am I kidding, anyway? I'm just an ordinary mom with a stupid little blog. And Philip Seymour Hoffman was just an actor. * * * There are voices in our heads—more so in the artistic types, perhaps—that constantly try to define who we are by comparing us to what we are not. We look for love and seek affirmation constantly; we overeat, get … [Read more...]
Subtitled: On what it means to be truly Catholic. “It never occurs to the critic to do anything so simple as to compare what is Catholic with what is Non-Catholic. The one thing that never seems to cross his mind, when he argues about what the Church is like, is the simple question of what the world would be like without it.” (From The Thing by … [Read more...]
{The Abbreviated Arctic Edition} Outside my window... Ridiculously cold. The kids are off school again this morning. No school last Thursday, either. At least my house is getting cleaned. {ironic snort} From the kitchen... What's with me and this cabbage craving? Seriously, I opened this big Sam's Club-sized bag yesterday and … [Read more...]
George, this morning: Are the beenanas ripe? Me, in response: Yes, the "beenanas" are ripe. Would you like one? George: Yup. George, passing by the computer as I typed this post: I didn't know you could spell “four” with letters! Me: {heart melting} Do you have a 4-year-old? Are they not awesome? I think when it comes to … [Read more...]
...and their thoughts on deer. I can honestly say that my husband is one of the best influences in my daughters' lives. For all his obnoxious sarcasm when they just want a straight answer...for all his stubborn insistence that they play at least one sport...for all the ways that he pushes them to “stay the course” when it comes to, say, … [Read more...]
We've had a big Pro-Life sign in our garage since the '04 election. George W. Bush. Remember him? I wondered out loud if we should put it on our lawn today, second-guessing myself every step of the way. Who wants to be thought of as a zealot by her neighbors? And then Felicity in all her 11-year-old frankness said, "If you don't put it out, how can … [Read more...]
I never knew my grandparents. My godfather is dead (may he rest in peace) but my godmother? She's one of my very best friends. What a gift, then, to get to know one's extended family! When I am old and gray and full of sleep, these memories will sustain me. That...and embarrass my children, of course. "Do you remember how Mom always had … [Read more...]
Here we Minnesotans go again. Although the start of the week brought us balmy temps, (We saw the 30's! A heat wave!), the mercury is expected to steadily drop today and by tomorrow... Photo Credit: Felicity ...we're expecting a "high" in the low teens with wind chills way below zero. What's more, parts of the state are … [Read more...]
