A couple of people have written to me privately, asking for updates on the Big Life Shift. I hadn’t realized it was so long since I’d posted, so an update is long overdue.
Now that we’re over the first shock — it’s actually not so bad. The day after I wrote that gloomy assessment, I mentioned [...]
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R Word, Part 2
Posted in family on October 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Ya Win Some, Ya Lose Some
Posted in family on September 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My sister’s daughter was married yesterday. There is no way to describe what a beautiful wedding it was, in a beautiful setting — well, I felt bad that they chose to hold the ceremony at a country club, but the garden where it was held had a little gazebo, and overlooked the golf course lake. [...]
Mimi’s Meme
Posted in Music, My Life in Christ, Needlework, Orthodox Christianity, Personal, domestic domovaya, family, home on July 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Can…not…resist…Must…do…Resistance…Is…Futile…
5 things I was doing five years ago:
Trying to get used to the idea that my son had moved away from home
Working on an analoy cover for church
Trying to get used to the idea that I was actually a grandmother
Anticipating a new daughter-in-law (the less said about that, the better)
Having my kitchen redone, which was [...]
Thanks to all for Happy Anniversary wishes. I just thought you’d all get a kick out of knowing how we actually spent the day.
After church we headed out to the coast of Maine. Some years ago — both kids were still living at home — we had lunch at a very nice restaurant right on [...]
I DON’T BELIEVE IT
Posted in People, Personal, family, home on May 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Forty years.
We hear about the people of Israel wandering in the desert for forty years and think, “Holy cow, how did they ever stand it?!” Think about it — a baby born at the beginning of that journey would be middle-aged (by today’s standards!) by the time it was over.
For that matter, think about how [...]
Family Affairs
Posted in News from the World of Transportation, family on April 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As the Buddhists say, “After ecstasy, the laundry.” We all know that feeling. I’m sure I’ve blogged about this before, but it bears repeating: The story told by Kathleen Norris (in, I think, The Cloister Walk, though it may have been in The Quotidian Mysteries) about the woman who said she was going to have [...]
Thanks…
Posted in My Life in Christ, Orthodox Christianity, family, spiritual warfare on April 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
…to all who responded to my last post. As so many of you noted, all we can do is pray for our children, and hope that they figure it out before it’s too late. Meanwhile, our daughter’s birthday is coming up, and my husband doesn’t want me to send her anything, not even a card. [...]
Groan Kids
Posted in family on March 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
My husband, bless his heart, desperate for news of our son, googled one of the groups we know he belongs to, and found his blog. It makes for entertaining reading, overall, but in his next-to-last post, we learned that we were almost reading his last post: Apparently, he came within two feet of sliding down [...]
From “The Simple Woman’s Daybook”
Posted in Needlework, Personal, domestic domovaya, family, home on January 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I got this idea from Philippa, and have been wanting to do it for some time. So!
From The Simple Woman’s Daybook:
FOR TODAY, January 26, 2009…
Outside my window… It’s pitch black, not unreasonable for 4:45 am on a January morning. (I couldn’t sleep.) Over the past two weeks there was a lot of snow, and the [...]
Oh, the Weather Outside is Frightful…
Posted in The Body Politic, family on January 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
…and I’m not feeling very delightful, because the current total is seven inches of snow, it’s still coming down, and there is no possible way I can get to church. I hate missing church.
What’s new in life…not much. Dad has been moved back to the nursing home where he was after he broke his hip, [...]
