Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
This is the nicest story I’ve heard about this holiday, so I wanted to pass it along. Over at EtiquetteHell, there’s a very long, very emotional thread going on about a nursing home where, due to administrative changes, the donors…
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As I finished up Christmas cards, I realized there are two people I’d really like to send cards to, and I have no address for them. They moved in the last year. One of them has a name so common…
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Yesterday I mentioned that 1H might not get any gifts other than the one I tucked into the Christmas dinner box. Here’s a sad story: back when I used to drive for an organization that brought the elderly and the…
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My father is going to get me rabbits! Very, very cool. I’ve done shopping for a CC family, 1H. For once, the experience didn’t reduce me to tears. I think I did it okay. Very cool too. I pray that…
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We had one of those magical moments this morning, when I wish I had a camera but I know a camera would capture none of it. My Patient Husband took the Kiddos to shovel snow (ostensibly to help; not sure…
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I loved the story and the song of Rudolph when I was a kid, and nowadays, the Kiddos love it too. I went to college at Cornell, which has a significant geek population. Suddenly I fit right in. (No, really,…
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I’ve put my finger on one reason I’m overwhelmed. Because most of the shopping we do (perforce) is online or at the very least mailed, the Philangelus family is essentially throwing our gifts over the wall. We select something, click…
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A fly got into our house. It’s been cold lately, so I’ve no idea where this fly came from, whether it spontaneously generated inside the house or came from outside. It’s huge and slow-flying and annoying. My first reaction was,…
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