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IF: Who me???

So, you get married, and, as we Catholics like to say, are open to life.  As newlyweds the bedroom is a happening place. Heck, so is the living room, basement, shower, back seat of the Buick, wherever....

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Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for. . . * Your comments– Your comments on my last post, the first of the IF series, were so encouraging.  When I set out to write that series I had something specific in mind, but...

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Things you don't expect your husband to say

Honey, watch out for the skull by the back gate.Huh???Oh!

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IF: Surviving

Read part 1 here.I can't run.  I can't hide.  This is my life.  I've got to deal with it.How? Dear Lord, how?When Himself and I got married we both wanted “a lot” of children, at least four or five....

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Martha vs. Mary

On Monday I was talking with my neighbor when I went over to fetch Jack who had run off  to play with Lucy.  It was a beautiful evening at the end of a beautiful day.  Kim doesn’t work on Mondays and...

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Sewing will never be the same

Sunday morning while we were drinking our coffee Himself and I were talking about some sewing projects I want to work on.  The hem fell of out a favorite skirt so I need to redo it.  Himself asked if I...

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Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for . . .* Joy Beyond the Cross - She did an excellent month-long series on the saints in October.  I really enjoyed reading about some of my favorites and learning more about ones...

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Everything old . . .

. . . is still old.  I love antique shops.  They are like museums where you can touch and hold things, and, for the right price, even take something home.  On Friday we ventured out of the house with...

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Thru the lens of my BlackBerry

We had sunshine today after almost two weeks of gloomy, wet weather.  These were a few things that caught my eye today.AMDG

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IF: Surviving 2

Read part 2 hereLearn your body.  I assumed that since my cycle was regular, every twenty-eight days like clockwork, everything was good.  Having had severe PMS, since almost the onset of menses as a...

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Guest Post: Be Not Afraid

Wednesday morning I woke up to the news on my clock radio.  I learned that the birthday present I wished for the day before wasn't to be.  We would not be getting the hoped for new president.  I was...

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IF: When to ‘quit’

Read part three here.So, you’ve been actively been trying to conceive for how long?  Two years?  Five? Ten?  Just when is it time to throw in the towel?You have been charting.  You’ve had the month...

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40 days

Have you looked at the calendar lately?  Thanksgiving is next week, Advent follows right behind it, and Christmas sneaks in right around the corner.  Uggh!  Christmas is only forty, yes, count them,...

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And they called it Puppy Love

Last weekend we went to the wedding of Himself’s eighty-two year old aunt.  I have to admit, it was a curiosity to me.  After all, what is a wedding for an older couple like?In a word – beautiful!Not...

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Now that was a first!

In honor of Small Business Saturday, Himself and I went to the local town square to browse the shops and do a bit of shopping.  There’s one I’ve been wanting to go into for quite a while, a yarn and...

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas???

I have to admit I don’t get the whole Black Friday shopping event.  Yes, the prices are good if you can get the items.  But, it seems to me the stores only stock so many and if you really want that...

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Did you know. . .

. . . that you can get Poison Ivy even when the vine has no leaves?  I didn’t, but I do now!A week or so before Thanksgiving I did some end-of-year yard cleanup and decided to pull out a vine that was...

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Thankful Thursday

This week I am thankful for. . .Prayer buddies– If you haven’t yet, there is still time to sign up.  Check This Cross I Embrace for all the details.JBTC– I was lucky enough to win M’s give-away...

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IF: Does it get easier?

Read part four here.Yes.And no.It may be reluctant acceptance.  This is my life.  Deal with it.  It might be blessed grace.  This is my life, the one God gave me.  Or it’s time or age or sheer...

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There's no place like home

Last week I had to travel for work.  To get to the west coast we first flew to the east coast - Washington DC to Washington state.  That made for a not-so-fun, very long flight.  It didn't help that my...

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