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March 13, 2008 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: Food and Drink, Hearth & Home, Minnesota Me 28 Comments

We have a depressingly long list of errands to run this morning—dentist at 9:00, doctor at 10:00, piano at 11:00. Bleh! Lately we are not home schoolers but rather, back-of-the-van paperback bookers.Fortunately, there is a light at the end of the morning’s tunnel in the form of this store—one of my favorite little shops, truly—where I will be … [Read more...]

Wordless Wednesday

March 12, 2008 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: Minnesohta, Minnesota Me, Wordless Wednesday 12 Comments

Ad Jesum per Mariam, … [Read more...]

Temps in the 40’s 50’s!

March 11, 2008 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: Family Fun, Minnesohta, Minnesota Me 13 Comments

Not that we’re excited or anything.Ad Jesum per Mariam, … [Read more...]

Is it still penitential if I complain?

March 10, 2008 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: Excessive Caffeine Consumption, Lent, Minnesota Me 17 Comments

It will surprise you not a whit, I should think, to hear that my primary Lenten penance involves coffee. As in, (I told myself at the start of Lent), I just wouldn’t have any.Coffee, that is.As in, I would instead start my day with tea.Given that the drinking of tea is firmly associated in my mind with a 4:00 p.m. teatime and not a 5:00 a.m. … [Read more...]

Springing Ahead

March 9, 2008 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: Current Affairs, Minnesohta, Minnesota Me 6 Comments

…was not my choice.Springing ahead on the 9th of March meant, for this Minnesotan:Driving through snow and ice to get my very early morning holy hour.“Resting in God” during my very early morning holy hour.Waiting for my replacement to arrive at 5:00 a.m. Resting in God some more.Greeting my replacement at 5:45 a.m. “Did you know that the time had … [Read more...]

O Happy Fault:

March 7, 2008 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: Conversion, Growing Up, Minnesota Me, Spiritual Growth 22 Comments

The Story of My ConversionPart II: The Age of Reason Subtitled: “Smoking, Stealing and Sins against the Sixth Commandment”You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; … [Read more...]

A Little Life Welcomed and then Lost

March 6, 2008 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: Minnesota Me, Miscarriage, Prayer 1 Comment

Please join me in praying for KC and her family in their time of grief.We love you, KC. We understand.“And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” (Rev. 21:4) … [Read more...]

On the Pursuit of Happiness and the Cleverness of McDonald’s Marketing

March 6, 2008 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: Cultural Commentary, Minnesota Me, Spiritual Growth 6 Comments

Every Wednesday afternoon we have a choice. The older three have choir for an hour at our church, and that leaves just the littles and me. Sometimes we run errands, sometimes we hang out in the van outside the church, and sometimes we visit the McDonald’s playland down the road.My girls clamor for the third option, not surprisingly, every single … [Read more...]

Wordless Wednesday

March 5, 2008 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: Minnesota Me, Wordless Wednesday 3 Comments

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Spring Cleaning for the Soul

March 5, 2008 by Minnesota Mom Filed Under: Hearth & Home, Minnesota Me, Spiritual Growth 14 Comments

Oh how precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it. Who can assure us that we will be alive tomorrow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice of the royal prophet: “Today if you hear God's voice, harden not your heart.” Let us not put off for one moment to another what we “should” do, because the next … [Read more...]

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