September 29th, 2006

Post Partum Tears Welling Up Moment of the Day

Ambrose: (as he snuggled baby Daniel) Before a baby is born, he’s just “the baby” and nobody knows what he will be like. But once a baby is born and you see him and know what he is like, you don’t want him to be any different baby in the whole world.

September 29th, 2006

Tomorrow: Free Museum Admission

Take the family to a local museum for free!

On September 30, 2006, for one day only, museums across thecountry will join the Smithsonian Institution in its long-standingtradition of offering free admission to visitors.

More details here. Find a participating museum near you here.

September 29th, 2006

When Nutrition Becomes Religion

Does this mean I am a bad person? I just can’t stop laughing at these people and their fabricated nutritional dramas:

Janet Dracksdorf, an educational publisher in Boston, saidthat a sitter she employed had been taking her daughter — a toddler atthe time — on regular candy runs. Ms. Dracksdorf did not learn aboutthem until “two years later, when my daughter was articulate enough totalk about it,” she said. “Maybe

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September 29th, 2006

September 29: Feast of the Archangels

So today is the feast day of the Archangels Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael.

So that means it’s a name day for two (three if you count Eamon’s middle name) of my kids.

So I am supposed to be baking up angel food cake or some other liturgically correct confection.

But maybe I got up early and made buttermilk apple pancakes thismorning before I even realized what day this is. And

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