Faith

June 7, 2009: This is long. Also churchy. I AM WARNING YOU.
Comments: 14 | Categories: Faith
[This has been in my drafts folder for months. I'm posting it now because the only other thing I wrote today? EVEN CHURCHIER. With a large helping of Controversial Topic so OBVIOUSLY that one REALLY needs to sit a few...

May 20, 2009: No more joining
Comments: 12 | Categories: Faith
I decided not to join another church committee. I have one last meeting in June, and then I'm done. Finito. I think I decided this several months ago, when I was driving to one of my meetings and feeling very...

April 7, 2009: Impossible request
Comments: 7 | Categories: Faith , House , Jack's friends
My two close friends from college were here with their kids this morning. Three of us, six children. We looked at each other: strapped into Baby Bjorns, wiping spit up off the floor, mixing pureed peas into rice cereal, singing...

March 29, 2009: My frillionth exercise in humility
Comments: 16 | Categories: Faith
We had Jack sit with us in church today. Sure, the nursery is easy, but 1) everyone comes down with something vaguely Plague-ish on Mondays, tired of that and 2) I miss him. I want him to sit in church....

March 3, 2009: Lent: A Reorganization. ALREADY. I KNOW.
Comments: 12 | Categories: Faith
Yesterday I ran half an hour on my treadmill, which amounted to about two and a half miles, and afterwards I was positively bursting with Thoughts On Running. I then wrote eleventy frillion running-related posts at Hot By Thirty, only...

February 24, 2009: The Obligatory Catholic Blogger's Lent Post
Comments: 9 | Categories: Faith
Not that I consider myself a Catholic blogger. I am merely a blogger who HAPPENS to be Catholic and HAPPENS to read a heap of very interesting, challenging and insightful Catholic blogs and HAPPENS to wish she were a bit...

October 27, 2008: Event 1 of Dutiful Catholic Parenting: CHECK!
Comments: 10 | Categories: Faith , Family , Jackson , Molly
Molly's not a pagan baby anymore or a holy innocent or whatever you call those unbaptized babies WHAT A RELIEF THANK GOODNESS. We got quite a few pictures of the baptism. Really good ones. Of course, none of them are...

April 10, 2008: I'll shoot for something funny tomorrow
Comments: 10 | Categories: Anxiety , Faith
For the Annoying Church Meeting I am supposed to read a chapter from a book called We Worship: A Guide to the Catholic Mass. Also known as Church for Dummies Like Maggie. The chapter I read last night (in a...

February 26, 2008: Worth
Comments: 11 | Categories: Faith , Rants , This Mom thing
Some time ago Phillip sent me a link to Suze Orman's new book Women & Money, which he swears he downloaded legally from Oprah's site. (What he was doing on Oprah's site and why he thought I would read this...

February 5, 2008: Lent: grumble grumble
Comments: 12 | Categories: Faith
So today is Fat Tuesday. Or Mardi Gras. Or Carnevale, as it is known in my house. We don't do much to take advantage, seeing as how Fat Tuesday always falls on a TUESDAY, but there was one year when...

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