Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
*¨*•♫♪¸¸.•*¨* Celebrate with me!! *¨*•♫♪¸¸.•*¨* Well, first let me back up a bit. Today is a book birthday for a book, but it’s also the would-be 17th birthday of my daughter, Emily Rose. For anyone who hasn’t been around the…
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Long after bedtime, Kiddo4 appeared at my elbow. “Orion is drinking from the fish tank.” Apparently it’s okay for the cat to drink the fish’s water, but it’s hard to convince the boys of that. They now have a betta…
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Kiddo4 has always listened to everything, but it’s more obvious lately. Driving with the radio on a couple of weeks ago, I heard him say, “Mom? What’s ‘dignified’?” The word had just appeared in a song. How do you explain…
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Kiddo#1 is at the end of the first term, and he says he’s getting a hundred in calculus. Awesome, right? He says, “I got a 92 on one of my tests, though, so I wasn’t sure.” I think there were…
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Daughter needed to get maybe a handful of speech therapy sessions to correct a persistent lisp. Brought her to a nearby SLP place and had her evaluated. Noted at the time that it was the most unfriendly waiting room I…
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It’s that time of year when the world’s best toys fall from the sky. This is the time of year when no actual raking gets done, but if I hand two boys a pair of rakes, I receive in return…
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As I type, I’m being interrupted every minute or so to spell a word. It started this morning when I set the breakfast table. “Who’s reading Howl’s Moving Castle?” Howl’s Moving Castle is an amazing book and I’ve read it…
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Beatlemania continues unabated. We’ve now seen both the Help! and A Hard Day’s Night movies, and my Kiddos have large swaths of Beatles songs memorized. They argue about which songs they would give three, four or five stars, and…
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Time to make good on my offer to donate $1 to Heifer.org for every copy of The Wrong Enemy preordered. (And it’s also over at Amazon.com now! That makes me feel more official.) And…{drumroll}…they’re getting a goat! Heifer International tells…
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In honor of tomorrow’s feast of guardian angels, today I’m going to give you another one of my “this was an angel…maybe” stories. A month ago, I started thinking about how one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is…
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