So how are those New Year's Resolutions going?...
I'm enjoying this break way too much. Now that we are back to a normal routine I have so much I want to do and so little time. Yeah, lots of things to work on over here for 2012. I think I need the...
View ArticleNot back yet...
Just testing out typing on my lap. Hubby moved computer (and other things) around and computer no longer has it's own surface....He just read that and said "It has it's own surface.Your the surface."...
View ArticleBreaking news
I am not perfect, but you already (I hope) knew that.Next revelation--you are not perfect either. We are all works in progress. In the last month or so any sense of pride I had has been shattered. I...
View ArticleMonth in review
So a lot can happen in a month. This has been quite a month and has required much personal growth on my part.1) I may as well start off with this one: In retrospect, my high pain tolerance could have...
View ArticleBecause I couldn't have said this better myself...
http://misfitpolitics.co/2012/02/y-u-no-like-boobs-selective-feminism/
View ArticleThis is excellent.
I didn't say this, Mark Twain said this. "If you don't read the news, you're uninformed; if you read the news your misinformed." Here--For those of you who don't know here is an excellent article on...
View ArticleThe day that changed everything
Three years ago today, I was probably complaining (There's a surprise.) about having gestational diabetes. Now, I'm glad I had it--without having had it, my son would probably be dead right now.I went...
View ArticleBe Not Afraid
I had never heard of picking a word for the year, one on which you think God wants you to work, before sometime in the middle of last year. I didn't pick a word for the year--instead God gave me...
View ArticleExcept this has me a little scared....
Um, yeah--does this sound like freedom to you? Not so much!http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=HcBaSP31Be8&vg=medium
View Article"The Trap" Part One--How I fell in.
I talked last week about falling into a trap, the trap of emotional adultery. I am going to spend the next few days talking about it so here is my story.April 2005--I got engaged.June 2005--I met a...
View Article"The Trap" Part two-How to avoid falling in to begin with...
So, yes, I was in deep. So deep, in fact, that when I thought I saw him at a distance a few weeks ago I called him just to see how he was doing. But I could not separate some of the old feelings.I then...
View Article"The Trap" Part three-How to get out of the well...
The short simple answer is to fall back in love with your spouse. For me this meant letting go of any past hurts from or feelings toward others. I never realized till this recent situation how much...
View ArticleDear "Baby J"
It has been three years today since I learned you would be given the boy J name and not the girl's.Three years since we all held are breath, not about which name you would have, but seeing if you would...
View ArticleWhat more appropriate topic to talk about today than...
Sex. That's right S-E-X.There seems to be this misconception that the Catholic Church hates sex. People get the idea that we just have a bunch of don't do this, don't do that rules. Which, yes, I can...
View ArticleSnapshots
Last weekend I read another book. (Surprise, me reading a book! -see book list) It was all about When Bad Christians Happen to Good People. In one section the author was making the analogy that most...
View Article"I feel sad for Protestants."
Yes, I actually said this about a half hour ago to my husband. We were just sitting down to dinner and he was asking how I was.I had just come back home and heard very sad things on the radio....
View ArticleTruth be told...
Yep, truth be told I am more than a little angry about this whole HHS mandate thing. My wild imagination gets the best of me and I think of all sorts of worst case scenerios.I think what most upsest me...
View ArticleI hate Lent!
I know, I know--it's only day one. But, oh, is it going to be a long one. And not even because I am going to attempt to give up chocolate and limit my internet time. (Heaven help us!)No, Lent is long...
View ArticleWe are sick.
As I just said in an e-mail "Functional, but sick." Still this is not fun and I am busy doing other things as well and just can't wrap my brain around a good Lenten reflection type blog post for today....
View ArticleSo what is "Biblical womanhood" anyway?
Truth be told (again), after some research, I'm still not exactly sure. You may be surprised, however, to find that I am much more "liberal" on this issue than my fundamentalist counter parts.I don't...
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