Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
I blame Calvin and Hobbes: my Patient Husband wants to bike to work. The reason we moved from Angeltown to Angelborough was his commute. The simple act of uprooting our lives, doubling our mortgage, throwing away a third of our…
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There was a rather long thread on one of my forums, since locked, and I wanted to see what you guys had to say about it. Here’s the post in a nutshell: a woman is asked to be screened to…
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Well, now you see how close to the ragged edge of disaster I run on a regular basis. Between trying to write ♥My Book♥ and being sick over the weekend (and I’m still not 100%) I’m burnt out, and that’s why you…
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It’s the feast of the Annunciation, when Gabriel visited Mary and told her about Jesus. Quite a few years ago, I wondered what it felt like to be on the receiving end of such a message, and I got an…
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Today would have been the feast day of St. Gabriel the Archangel (the day before the Annunciation) except that he got moved over to September 29th to share a day with Sts Michael and Raphael. Since I’m still wiped out…
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On Saturday night, the baby woke up at 10PM and threw up all over me. He’s not a spitty baby, so this augured Bad Things. Sure enough, when I woke up Sunday morning, everyone else’s breakfast smelled like compost, and…
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I had to take a second literary pause from ♥My Book♥ because the publisher of my Christmas novella wanted pre-edits. The pre-edits took three or four days. The first day, I was able to write my thousand words for the day anyhow,…
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My Patient Husband’s mother returned from vacation last week to find there had been a house fire in her absence. Somehow before it burned too much, the fire department got it extinguished, and no one was hurt, but there’s damage…
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Kiddo#3 saw my copy of the Settlement Cookbook. “Why you have another cookbook?” he asked. I said that some recipes weren’t in every cookbook, and that this had been Grandma E’s cookbook. He said, “She gave it to you?” No,…
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My favorite method of food donation has backfired, and I’m standing here with soot on my face. I need help. A long time ago I read an article that changed my perception, about a family that donated food to a…
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