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7 Quick Takes: August 27, 2010 (Vol. 50)

~ 1 ~ This week, Molly started in the religious education program at our parish, since she’s in kindergarten now.  She was so excited, especially since she is in class with her two BFFs. Yes, my five year old does call her best girlfriends her “BFFs.” ~ 2 ~ Because I don’t spend enough time [...]

Our Kids’ Supply Caddies

There have been several comments about the cool supply caddies that my kids have for their school things, so I wanted to talk about them briefly.  (I have one too and it has little monsters on it — love it!) They were made with scrapbooking papers and embellishments on Pampered Chef tool turnabouts.  Now, before [...]

An Update on My Mom’s Heart Procedure

Thanks so much to those that have left comments, emailed me, sent me messages on Facebook and Twitter, as well as to those who didn’t pass along word that you were praying, but you prayed anyway. My Mom went in for her heart catheterization on Friday, after having had continued chest pains (when doing even [...]

The Birthday Present That I Can Never Top

Have you ever given someone a gift and realized that it was so good, so perfect, so wonderful that you will never be able to give that person a better gift? Maybe you wandered through a vintage thrift store and found your best friend one of those plastic charm necklaces that you guys used to [...]

I Converted for the Guilt

During a recent trip to visit my Grandpa (“Papa”), who is now my only living grandparent (he is the husband of 62 years to my Grandma that passed in May), we visited his new church with him.  It is the new location of a church that I belonged to as a child when we lived [...]

My Mom Says I Saved Her Life, But She’ll Appreciate it More Later

It’s hard to imagine right now that exactly two weeks ago, my Mom was fine (or at least we thought she was), and we were gearing up for a week of visiting with my eldest sister and her family.  It’s funny how some of the most life changing things are those that you just completely [...]

Top Ten Reasons I Know I’ve Been at The Hospital Too Long

Regular readers may have noticed that I haven’t been posting much (or at all) in the past week.  I’ll write more about the specifics later (soon), but this week has found me mostly hanging around the hospital after my Mom had emergency open heart surgery at the end of last week. This was quite shocking [...]

Ten Reasons I Love My Husband

1. He is a good husband. He doesn’t usually fuss at me, even though he probably has reason to do it.  He is supportive and understanding. 2. He is an excellent father. Sure, I do fear that if I wasn’t around for several days the kids might exist on chicken nuggets, macaroni & cheese, and [...]

A Reflection on my Grandma’s Passing

I’ve been putting off writing about my Grandma’s passing.  Unfortunately, I also don’t feel like I can write anything else until I do it.  So, this may jump around a bit, but I’m going to try to just sit down and sort out some things today, which is exactly two weeks since she passed away.  [...]

My Funeral Reading for My Grandma

I’ve been home for four days now, and I’m having a hard time getting back to writing here. I have been taking care of a lot of other things that I needed to do online, but I’m just having a hard time coming back to write. I think that my biggest problem is that I [...]

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