December 22nd, 2006

Bass Pro Shops Gift Update #2

Okay Ladies, Dan tells me that in the gift guessing contest we have going on here, someone has already gotten the correct answer. Oh, how I am holding out for that Larry the Cable Guy DVD!

December 22nd, 2006

O Emmanuel

O Emmanuel God with us, our King and Lawgiver, the Expected of nations and their Saviour; come and save us , O Lord our God!

O Antiphons

December 22nd, 2006

A Christmas Tribute

Please do go read the beautiful essay NCR editor Tom Hoopes has writtenin honor of his mother on this, the first Christmas he’ll spend withouther. And please do consider making a Christmas donation to All for Suzette, a memorial fund for a church to be built in Mrs. Hoopes’ Southern Arizona desert community of Sonoita.

December 21st, 2006

O King of Nations

O King of Nations and Desired of All, You are the cornerstone that binds two into one. Come, and save poor man whom You fashioned out of clay!

O Antiphons

December 21st, 2006

Cheating

Since it’s already getting late and my brain is fried from a daylongbake-a-thon and an evening shopping excursion with the girls, I thoughtI’d share this column of mine that ran in the National Catholic Register last year:

Keeping Christmas

Last year, the week before Christmas found me in a culinary panic.In a last minute fit of anxiety, I wiped the family calendar clean ofall outside activities and in red marker

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December 20th, 2006

O Rising Dawn

O Rising Dawn Radiance of the Light eternal and Sun of Justice; come and enlighten those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death!

O Antiphons

December 13th, 2006

Note to the Pediatrician’s Billing Office

If you are going to make me wait on hold for 25 minutes just to tell you for the second timethat your claims to our insurance company are being rejected becauseyou stubbornly insist upon calling my son “Daniel Beanjr” instead of“Daniel Bean Jr,”

Jose Feliciano’s rendition of Feliz Navidad will do little to improve my frame of mind.

December 13th, 2006

According to my husband,

My problem is that when I happen upon scenes like these, my first impulse is to run and get the camera.