...so help me, if I don’t find that single, snotty piece of paper I am going to SCREAM! There is nothing—nothing, I tell you—like a dose of disorganization to send me careening off into a thousand different directions.“What’s up with this messy closet?”“When’s the last time this drawer’s been cleaned?”“School? Who’s got time for school?”(Not … [Read more...]
Feeling Social Saturday
The On Being Budget-Minded EditionTell me: are you the coupon-clipping type? I try to be, but it does require a bit of foresight. And oy, all those little scraps of paper!I’m much better at grabbing the grocery store circular on the way into the building, which, I know, means tearing out the coupons at the checkout. So annoying.Still, I’m all for … [Read more...]
7 Quick Takes Friday
(Vol. XV for Me)The Busy-ness Edition~ Take 1 ~Between sacramental prep, the start of baseball and continued work on my upcoming talks, the month of April has seemed more like Advent. So much to do, so little month! It’s not that I mind any of these obligations, mind you—it’s not like I’m, say, spending my days at the oncologist’s or anything like … [Read more...]
Bonny Blue Give-Aways
Friends & fellow Catholic moms, lend me your ears! Mary Ellen Barrett is hosting an entire week's worth of give-aways! I've seen the list. I want it all.Check out her generous give-aways here.If you win, I get to share it. ;) … [Read more...]
And you thought this was a post about baseball…
The booze cake recipe is up at Come for Coffee.Here’s the link. … [Read more...]
Poverty: The New Definition
The kids were enjoying a post-baseball game treat of ice cream—Joe’s team won! Yay!—when Angela proceeded to voice a complaint. It seems that after dinner last night she got neither ice cream nor cake—the sad consequence of not finishing all her supper.“Angela.” Felicity was properly indignant, sensing as she did the impropriety of complaining … [Read more...]
Thirsty?
Er...that is to say, hungry?Recipe to be posted soon, right after we get back from my son's baseball game.(It's the 2nd game of the season. Only 4,327 to go!) … [Read more...]
On the Virtue of Silence
Christ: “My child, there are times when you ought to keep to yourself and avoid conversation. There is no profit in unkind talk, rash talk, or indecent talk. What is the good of wasting time with idle disputes or with boasting?True, there are times when light conversation brings needed relief and necessary recreation, but talk which does not help … [Read more...]
7 Quick Takes Friday
(Vol. XIV for Me)~ Take 1 ~I’d like to begin and end this week’s Quick Takes installment with a quote. Here’s the first one.Yesterday we attended Our First Baseball Game of the Season. (This is an event of such significance and magnitude that you must put it all in caps.) My oldest son Joe is playing on not one but two local teams, and tell me how … [Read more...]
(Almost) Wordless Wednesday
The I-cut-his-bangs-and-now-he-looks-like-Uncle-Charlie Edition(He really needed that trim, too. Here’s the “before” shot.) … [Read more...]
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