Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
My Patient Husband hails from the midwest. The real midwest, with the Great Plains and Unbelievable Flatness. Angeltown, where we’ve settled, is neither on the Great Plains nor Unbelievably Flat. As kind of a “signature,” he keeps a plastic buffalo…
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My Patient Husband and I are having Naming Woes about our upcoming Kiddo#4. Part of the problem is that within five minutes of discussing names, one of us will suggest something like Hrothgar Samwise, and from there the whole thing…
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In the final post on Judas, I stated that Satan’s ultimate temptation is to offer us something good that God will eventually give to us anyhow. This is the ultimate temptation for two reasons.
If you followed the comments on the CSI Jerusalem series, (here, here and here) you noticed that it’s impossible to come to an agreement about Judas. Individuals give different weight to the different conflicting Biblical passages and that leads us…
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An interesting way of fundraising, via Happy Catholic: Good Counsel Homes, Inc. is a non-profit organization that serves pregnant women throughout the State of New Jersey and New York by providing much needed services including shelter, food, medical care, education,…
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Sometime in the next 24 hours, we’re going to reach 10,000 hits on my weblog. Surely they’re not all my mom! That’s totally cool, and not bad for a scant five months online. My Kiddos, my Patient Husband, the household…
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Kiddo#3 still uses a potty seat on the toilet (aka, “the toilet ring”) to prevent him from falling in. The previous one was trashed after being used for two other Kiddos, so we picked up another one. There are only…
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Yesterday we spent twenty-five minutes in the attic getting down all the baby gear we have from Kiddos Number 1 through 3, in preparation for giving birth in a couple of weeks. Based on what we have brought down from…
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A few nights ago, Kiddo#3 and I read two books before bedtime. He chooses them at random off his shelf, and for the first one, he picked The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. I loathe that book. I detest it….
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A quickie pub-board nonupdate: we’re still in a holding pattern, but I think that’s good. If last week’s answer were “heck no,” that would have come down the pike immediately. Last time, we got a “no” the day after the…
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