Every Season-Nichole Nordeman

This song came on my mp3 player last night. I never really listened to it until then. Every evening sky, an invitation To trace the patterned stars And early in July, a celebration For freedom that is ours And I notice You In children’s games In those who watch them from the shade Every drop [...]

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7 Quick Takes: Hockey, Commercials and a New Shirt.

1. Liturgy of the Hours As you know since Lent began I’ve been trying to pray the Liturgy of the Hours. I’ve got it figured out now, I’m aiming to do 3 offices each day: Lauds and Vespers morning and evening, and the office of the readings during my toddler’s naptime. It’s kind of too [...]

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My Demons Defeat Me but Canada Defeats Russia

The evening didn’t start very well. I was a little confused over whether there was a hockey party or not, but someone said she had been told she’d be welcome there and I would be too, so I decided I would go. DH had promised to come to the Gold Medal game Sunday, but was [...]

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Escaping Distraction

Today I went to Mass at St Mike’s instead of my usual parish. It’s a bit complicated, but the main reason I went there is because Mass was 30 min earlier so there would be just enough time to squeeze in lunch at mom’s before the hockey game at 2pm. The priest there is an [...]

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Lauds

Two excerpts from the Liturgy of the Hours this morning. I thought the first was really beautiful, and the second described me. 1. Psalm-Prayer “Lord, you are fullness of life, of holiness and of joy. Fill our days and nights with the love of your wisdom, that we may bear fruit in the beauty of [...]

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Crepes

For Shrove Tuesday this year I decided to try making my own crepes. (I’d already had fluffy pancakes for breakfast and lunch so I was wanting a change anyway, and I love my mom’s light crepes with sugar and lemon juice. Since no one else was going to make them for me I decided to [...]

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7 Quick Takes – The Olympics, a Pretty Swimsuit and Barbie

Happy 3rd day of Lent everyone, I had an assignment I had put off just a little in favor of other things and I was finishing that up earlier today, so I’m a little later getting this Quick Takes post up. Photos etc to come later, my toddler has been down here for 5 minutes! [...]

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This Season of Lent

For Lent last year I tried to give up complaining and it worked really well for about 2 days, and then just fell by the way-side like a New Year’s resolution. This year it was pretty clear to me I’m being called to spend less time on my computer (Jen’s internet fasts, my struggle to [...]

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Why Gender Matters

Feb 16, 2010 “The bottom line is that the brain is just organized differently in males and females. The tired argument about which sex is more intelligent or which sex has the ‘better’ brain is about as meaningful as arguing which utensil is “better”, a knife or a spoon. The only correct answer to such [...]

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Progressive supper

Feb 12, 2010 Tonight was CCO’s Progressive Supper. The word for the night was Hospitality. It was so awesome to see these families opening their homes to us (I mean we’re not living on the street going hungry but it was still such a gesture of hospitality and love. Our first stop was at the [...]

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