Kitty-kitty, who are you?
Since we moved to this new house, I’ve seen a cat wandering around. I think she’s an owned cat. First off, she’s orange and white, and the white is VERY white. Stray cats with white tend to become stray cats…
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Monthly Archive: October 2008
Oh yeah.
I was getting the baby dressed when I heard my daughter singing, down the hall, “Just some old-fashioned cat barf…” I did not hear if it was comin’ down in three-part harmony. It’s gonna be a terrific week.
Sending the kid to money-school
Kiddo#1 asked for an allowance, and instead he got sent to money-school. We had a system last year: at the beginning of the month, he selected whatever hot lunches he wanted off the calendar for the month, and I’d pay…
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dragons and virtues, oh my
I’m still having fun collecting dragons. As I acquire new eggs and hatchlings, I rotate them through the sidebar to help them hatch and then grow up, but it’s pretty low-maintenance now that I’ve figured it out. At first I…
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The best way to keep a secret
At the dinner table last night, Kiddo#1 abruptly said, “Do I have autism?” Back in April when we got his diagnosis, the neuropsychologist told us not to tell him until we had him in treatment with a trained professional who…
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Happy feast day!
Happy feast day to all our household guardian angels! We’re so blessed to have you around, even if we can’t draw you guys very well. (Picture circa 1990. Thank heaven for tracing paper.)
How my guardian got his nickname
Early on after I “discovered” guardian angels and how cool they were, I read an article in a youth magazine which mentioned one could give one’s guardian angel a name. My reaction to this was “Nah-uh.” Naming in the Bible…
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an angel moment: language
Back in 2005, I said one night to my guardian angel, “If you could have me get rid of one sin, what would it be?” I wouldn’t call myself a mystic by any means, but I could have sworn I…
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