Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
Kiddo#3, on an unseasonable October day, pointed out a snail shell on our front steps. He put it in his pocket. I said, “Leave it outside,” and he said, “No! It’s dead, see?” How could this go wrong? How could…
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Back when I had Kiddo1, my mother told me not to try being a perfect mother, but instead to be a good-enough mother. Since there are no perfect mothers, you’d pretty much kill yourself trying to live up to the…
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We ended up in Build-A-Bear yesterday, and Kiddo#2 exclaimed, “Mom! It’s my bear!” I didn’t know what she meant at first. Last year, one of her bears got recalled, so I thought maybe it was back, but instead she pointed…
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Being the Mom Of The Year takes a lot of hard work. Last week, for example, I brought my daughter to the liquor store. These little mother-daughter field trips are an excellent time to brush up my daughter on the…
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I’m linking to this article again because it’s terribly important. Hollywood has given us a predetermined picture of what drowning looks like (arms flailing, panic, screaming) that is not at all the reality. The Instinctive Drowning Response – so named…
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The post I want to make requires pictures that are still on my camera, and I just got tagged for a meme I don’t know how to answer, so instead I’ll tell you about Hal. Actually, I’ll tell you about…
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Remember this guy? Here’s his buddy, Jerina: Orion is now wearing an adult body, but he’s still got a kitten brain. He doesn’t look and act like a baby anymore, but he’s still a bit crazy (okay, a lot crazy)…
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If yours is a sad Mother’s Day, I am praying for you. If you wanted to be a mother but could not. If you are a mother whose baby or child has died. If you became a mother under unfortunate…
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Kiddo4 has decided to become a baby. Last month, a woman brought her newborn to rosary group. She was working hard to keep him happy, and after a while I took him so she could have a break. It’s the…
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Back when he got engaged, my brother groused that his future mother-in-law had gotten him “service for thirty-six.” He muttered, “If there are thirty-six people over at my house, I’m not going to be one of them.” God has a…
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