November 30th, 2009

Heading Into Advent Daybook

Outside my window … Bright, sunny, and COLD. The menfolk have been busy, though, and there are tall, neat stacks of wood out there too.

I am thinking … that it matters what we allow ourselves to think. If we let ourselves mope, complain, judge or criticize — even if only in our own heads — that attitude translates into our words and actions. Even if we don’t mean for

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November 29th, 2009

Three Years Old

9 months of gestation, 15 months of nursing, 4,380 diaper changes, and 506 loads of laundry later …

The boy is told to eat his dinner and dares to respond with:

“I hate you, Mama.”

I sent him to the corner. And consoled myself with his mashed potatoes.

November 29th, 2009

Mute Monks’ Halleluia

Very cool performance by some creative high school students. HT: Mark Shea via Suzanne

November 26th, 2009

And Doggie Too

November 24th, 2009

Good Goodness for Thanksgiving

Over at Faith & Family Live we’ve got lots of good stuff going on for the upcoming holiday …

In today’s feature column, Sherry Antonetti shares her humorous take on five traditional Thanksgiving conflicts along with her proposed solutions. Rebecca has announced an up and coming Fall Pie Contest where you will have a chance to win a $40 Pampered Chef gift certificate. As our resident Pie Aficionado, Rebecca

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November 23rd, 2009

Grace at Thanksgiving

You can read about my first “married” Thanksgiving in my Husband & Wife column at Fathers for Good this week:

Grace at Thanksgiving

November 23rd, 2009

Pre-Thanksgiving Daybook

Outside my window … are gray skies and plenty of puddles. November always brings a damp, dark, waiting for winter kind of feeling.

I am thinking … about my birthday girl. Sweet Juliette is turning 10 today. 10! If I can kick her out of the kitchen long enough, I’ll make her favorite caramel cheesecake this morning.

I am thankful for … an abbreviated school week. We’ve been working hard

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November 21st, 2009

So Let’s Start Giving

I have had “We Are the World” running through my head all day. Don’t ask me why. Maybe I heard it somewhere or maybe I caught a glimpse of a man wearing a bandana on his head all Bruce Springstein-like and my brain got the subliminal message to sing about “saving our own lives.”

I don’t know.

Finally, this afternoon I got annoyed with this particular ear worm and got

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