Lessons Learned in 2009

Please disregard the notes at the bottom I’ve seen other people write posts like these, and it might be a good idea to centralize the things I need to remember so I can better put them into practice. 2009 has been a big year for me I discovered CCO and my whole outlook on faith [...]

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SH Reunion

This morning I went to a mini SH reunion brunch. SH is my high school. I gather they’ve been doing these reunions during the Christmas holidays for a couple years, but I didn’t find out about them until after I was on facebook, and before this year I’m not sure I was ready to go. [...]

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My Advent/Christmas Journey – Part 4 Reflection and Photo Session

This year my knowledge and understanding of advent took on a deeper meaning. I was reflecting a lot on two posts I read on other blogs, but especially this line from the first one: That little infant, born to die, is the absolute, final, and only necessary Word. Powerful stuff. 1. The Education of Man [...]

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My Advent/Christmas Journey – Part 3 Photography

The holiday season always provides me ample things/moments to photograph – leading to an inevitable backlog of photos to go through when the excitement dies down. So, here are a handful of the photos I took of all things Christmas. Our Tree I had 2 strings of colored lights with the built-in white lights and [...]

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My Advent/Christmas Journey – Part 2 Christmas Day

Christmas eve after I got back from church DMIL and I set up the living room. We placed the presents under the tree. DH took a reluctant toddler to bed. DH said he wished him a Merry Christmas but from the screaming we all concluded it didn’t really help. Once my toddler had gone to [...]

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My Advent/Christmas Journey – Part 1 Christmas Eve

This evening I went Christmas Eve mass. It didn’t work out for me to go with my mom and brother, so instead I left the kids at home and went to the 7 o’clock Mass at our church. My mom doesn’t like that one because it’s usually crowded. It was. I was running a little [...]

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Nativity Set

I just wanted to share a little about one of the nicest little toys for any Christian family. When I spotted this in the sears wishbook I just thought it was the cutest thing, and what a great toy it would be for my toddler, and my other children when they’re older/born. A great toy, [...]

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Winter Fun-Love and Snowmen

Yesterday morning DH and I took our toddler out to play in the snow. The snow was good and packy so we made a snowman. I found some nice big rocks that I borrowed from a neighbors landscaping (with permission) and with a scarf and a trucker hat she was all ready to go. With [...]

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Some semi-recent photos

These are all from around the beginning of December. When we went to our couple friend’s place for the first time Race car in Truro DH’s birthday DSIL’s place of work Baby pics almost smiling Playing in the snow Winter with my MIL

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Baby’s Baptism

Unlike with my toddler, baby’s baptism day had a snow storm. Today was baby’s baptism, and somehow among the chaos around me and in my head, in a moment of stillness I found peace in my baby’s sweet little face. This morning was just crazy. I was rushing around and nothing was going right. My [...]

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