By the time you read this, I’ll be knee-deep in preparations for our annual New Year’s family celebration. Over the years, we’ve developed a tradition of just hanging out here at home, having a bit of a New Year’s Eve feast, usually complete with some catawba, shrimp cocktail, lefse and other goodies, and taking part [...]
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Dec 20
mama mondays: impending light
A reflection on light, one week before Christmas
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mama mondays: a phone date with donna-marie (and other bullet points)
I’m posting a bit early, since tomorrow will be filled to the brim with activity. After the five-kid, mad-dash drop-off in the morning, I’ll be heading over to the Real Presence Radio station to co-host with Tanya Watterud on "Real Presence Radio Live." During the final half-hour time slot at 10:30 a.m. [...]
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faith fridays: finally winter, finally advent
School Advent Program 2009 I still remember the year our firstborn was old enough to know what a birthday is, but too young to understand seasons and time. So we told him that his birthday would happen when it started snowing. That year, it started snowing the week of his birthday — mid-December. It was [...]
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soulful saturdays: resistance
Soulful Saturdays: Resistance I can already feel myself tensing up, anticipating the resistance within that seems to be coming earlier and earlier with each passing year. My daughters feel it, too. I’ve passed it on to them, through both quiet murmurings of annoyance as well as louder pronouncements of unresolved grievance. "Halloween is barely over [...]
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