Just because it’s been awhile.Here’s a totally random question, and I’m winging it at you from left field:What do you do when you’re feeling lonely? I’ll tell you what I do:I check the computer for anything new. I eat. I pray. (Yes, in that order, which is pretty backward if you think about it.)Feel free to double up on another commenter’s answer. … [Read more...]
I Love My Husband (Part II)
We’d tucked the kids in and were talking quietly.Joe going off to school next year…colleges…how to encourage religious vocations among our children.The themes were heavy—perhaps too heavy for my tired mind on a Friday.I needed cocoa.As I was about to whisk up some Nestlé Quik and milk, my husband joined me in the kitchen. “Would you like to try … [Read more...]
South Beach Update #2
…is on deck. I have much to say after reading your comments and emails (which have been wonderful and helpful and encouraging and wonderful), but first I must go on a date with my husband! Yep, my friend Tina has graciously offered to watch our brood this evening so we can go stare at Mr. Pitt.Did I just say that?In any case, my husband’s … [Read more...]
South Beach Diet Update
The comments made in the post below made me cry. Why? Because these women are friends of the heart who both cared (and dared) to challenge me.The truth is, I hadn't researched the effects of Phase I on a pregnancy before deciding to attempt it, and I haven't talked to my doctor to see if she approves.The ugly truth is, I was hoping to lose some … [Read more...]
Pity me. (The South Beach Version)
After two weeks of holiday feasting and every sort of culinary excess, I am beginning Phase I of the South Beach Diet today.Ask my husband if I’ve been…moody. Right now the kids are snacking on red & green malted milk balls and I am eating cold brussels sprouts with balsamic vinegar.I eat them cold to pretend they’re ice cream. It’s not … [Read more...]
Back to Blogging
Or am I?Do you ever feel as if you have everything to say and nothing to say? That's where I'm at today.I would like to do a Christmas recap with some photos from the past few days. We spent Christmas Day in Central Minnesota visiting John's family, and then we made our way gingerly up to North Dakota (passing car after car after truck after car in … [Read more...]
Close Enough for Rock & Roll
Or, in this case, a good stirring version of “O Holy Night.”I am totally ready for another blogging break. Mind, I do not mean another long month’s worth of silence. No, I mean plopping down gratefully at the computer to take a well-earned break from the baking, the wrapping, and the newsletter-writing. (Our newsletter is always an Epiphany … [Read more...]
Still Sick
Are you sick of reading about it? : )This thing is cycling through the family, its most recent victims being Joe & Jem. Poor kids, they were supposed to go hunting with John today and when Joe woke up in the middle of the night—his stomach in that telltale knot—he was devastated.Normally I’d think it was nice to be a family today…if only I felt … [Read more...]
7 Quick Takes Friday
Courtesy the invitation of Jen from Conversion Diary. I am loving this week off from the children’s formal studies and am using it to catch up on all my lesson-planning DVD-viewing. I am nearly finished with this series, alas, and must savor the last two episodes. Are you as fond of war movies as I? Or do you avoid them like the plague? If you are … [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday
The Late Night EditionSubtitled: When Pregnant Insomniacs Party … [Read more...]
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