"Aaaarrgh, Matey!" Before I get to the important stuff, a few kid quotes to start off the week with a smile. Heard recently via Nick, age 4: "Mom, know what makes me mad about Skittles (the cat)? Sometimes, I don’t know how, but sometimes she just shoots out her nails and gets me in the [...]
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faith fridays: what’s with the catholic stuff anyway?
I didn’t launch Peace Garden Mama with the thought that faith would be such an integral part of it. Little by little, however, my zeal for my faith began to spill into my posts. Then, during Lent last year, I divulged more of my faith life here. Doing so surprised me. I felt my writing [...]
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thursday thrills: mr. potatohead, i love you!
On days I have meetings or appointments that don’t lend themselves to having a 4-year-old tagging along, I have two wonderful helps at my disposal. One is a part-time sitter, Kristi, who has immeasurably blessed my life over the past several years. Another is a drop-off childcare business that, lacking a permanent grandmother in the [...]
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writing wednesdays: motivation
What is it? What is it that compels us to put thought to paper, to fashion a sentence…and another and another…to rework and rewrite and then, finally, to send those pieces of our soul off into the world? Is it that we desire fame and want to be noticed? "Hey, look at me?" Is it [...]
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mama mondays: brett favre’s mom and my mom #2
Kid Quote of the Day: Nick, age 4: "Mom, I didn’t get to use the computer yet today, or even yesterday, or even the day when it wasn’t yesterday yet!" Yes, you are indeed looking at a photo of Brett Favre’s mother with her arm around the shoulder of my dear mother-in-law (Mom #2, [...]
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the gift of faith: finding the cathedral of st. paul
While plotting a weekend trip to the Twin Cities a few weeks back, I was delighted to find my travel companion, Marie, and I on a very similar wavelength about how our Sunday might go down. "I kind of enjoy going to Mass when I’m traveling," I said, wondering if she’d think me strange. After [...]
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the gifts that emilie gave
Though this post will comprise the crux of a weekend trip I’ve been unwrapping little by little throughout the week, I know it’s going to be the most difficult of the five to write, simply because what I’m about to share cannot be fully understood in earthly terms and thoughts. “It only makes sense [...]
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the gift of extended family (a.k.a. the good day cafe with aunt betsy)
Photo by nobody@flickr.com (swirlspice) When I realized my hoped-for trip to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area to celebrate a special birthday occasion was going to happen, I knew I’d want to make use of every hour of my mama-away time. It’s not everyday a mother has the chance to watch the dirty dishes and piles of [...]
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the gift of old friendship
"Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other’s gold. A circle is round, it has no end, that’s how long I want to be your friend." (Girl Scouts of America song) Yesterday, I spoke of a weekend filled with an assortment of gifts. As promised, I’m going to continue unwrapping [...]
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mama mondays: bottomless gift
I’m having a hard time putting into words my feelings from the weekend that has just come to an end, so I’m going to have to unwrap each gift that came from it slowly, throughout the week, to reveal a little at a time. This might mean more, but shorter, posts this week. At the [...]
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