Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
I think this article is important enough to send it to everyone I know. Unless you live in a desert and you’ve only ever seen water in bottles, please read about why Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning. Imagine for a…
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Kiddo#2, as only she can, found a nest of baby rabbits in our front lawn. In a hollow about the size of a grapefruit, covered over only with some dry grass and clumps of white rabbit fur, were a jumble…
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Wednesday is the day for the Glorious mysteries, the third of which is the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles. When the Holy Spirit descends, He’s described as shaking the earth and making the noise of a loud…
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For Father’s Day, we made root beer floats. (Among other things. I wanted to find a wonderful way to celebrate my Patient Husband’s Patient Fatherhood, but I couldn’t do that sufficiently, so instead we bought root beer and ice cream.)…
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Kiddo#1 wrote this as an exercise for class, and usually they get a check mark, but this got a check-plus and an exclamation point. He’s quite proud of it, so today, he’s our guest-blogger. — Energy Star This morning, Dad…
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Here’s a list of some charitable organizations that are reaching out right now, in material ways, to those affected by the Gulf oil disaster. Please consider helping out if possible, and of course prayers too for those who are right…
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One of the pop-psychology tidbits I hear all the time are about unmet needs, and the unhelpful things people do to meet them. The St. Michael chaplet I pray every day asks for protection against the snares of the devil,…
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I’ve been following the Gulf oil disaster story, and I’m increasingly more horrified by what we’ve done to our world. It’s looking now as if we’re going to be facing the worst case scenario, and that due to damage to…
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Ever since I was a kid, it has happened sporadically that I’ll know what song is about to come on the radio. I’d be walking along and as the current song was ending, I’d get a sense of what would…
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Yesterday I mentioned weeding, and how my son thought it would take a decade to finish the job. Kiddo#1 (and Kiddo#4) are currently enamored with outer space, and so I’ve been paying attention to things like Mars and Jupiter a…
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