It will be Thanksgiving the day after tomorrow (unless you live in some other country, and then I don’t know when yours is or even if you have one. If you’d like to share with the class….we’d be interested to hear it.)Here is the beginning of my grateful list. 100 things I’m grateful for in random order. 100. My husband’s warm body on early Fall mornings when I’m cold.99. The smell of warm oatmeal bread baking in the oven.98. Children... Read more

We all have people who bring out the worst in us. People who somehow trigger the selfish, mean, unstable parts of our personalities which we normally keep under tight control. These people can be mean themselves, or just nice people who bring out the worst in us. To quote a friend of mine, “They make us into juniors in high school all over again.” It is very hard when these are people with whom you have a shared history, or... Read more

I like it when big companies keep promises. I like it even more when they make silly promises in jest, and then keep them anyway. Put your money where your mouth is. That’s the way I like it. Dr Pepper told the band Guns N’ Roses that they would give everyone in America a free bottle of Dr Pepper if their new album came out in 2008. It comes out next month and Dr Pepper is ponying up. “We never... Read more

#1 has made the announcement that after 5 years, thousands of dollars, and an incredible amount of time and dedication, she is tired of Irish dancing for now. She may come back to it later, but for now she wants to cut back to one day a week in order to try new things. Of course she has a new thing already in mind. Why am I not surprised? She wants to try triathlons. Thank you, Imelda. I wonder where... Read more

#1’s new dogteeth, fur, energy, and lovewith a squeaky bark Please, oh Daddy, pleaseand a puppy came to uspush-over parents Read more

I don’t even have words to describe how bad this is. If you are a Catholic, please wrap your head in duct tape as a safety precaution before watching this video. That way you have all the pieces when you go to the Emergency Room after your head explodes. http://www.gloria.tv/flvplayer.swf?file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gloria.tv%2F%3Fembed%26video%3Dpwxa9jff7gs5kldzpiu7%26width%3D512%26height%3D288&type=flv&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gloria.tv%2F%3Fembed%26image%3Dpwxa9jff7gs5kldzpiu7%26width%3D512%26height%3D288&autostart=false&showdigits=true&usefullscreen=false&logo=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gloria.tv%2Fimage%2Flogo_embed.png&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gloria.tv%2F%3Fvideo%3Dpwxa9jff7gs5kldzpiu7%26amp%3Bview%3Dflash&linktarget=_blank&volume=100&backcolor=0xe0e0e0&frontcolor=0x000000&lightcolor=0xf00000 h/t to the American Papist Read more

Please pray for the person who got to my blog today by googling “will my baby be ok after taking ru-486?” God bless her that she has had a change of heart. Please pray for God’s protection on her and her baby. Read more

Only one of the following is not true. Can you guess which one? 1. I went shopping for my wedding dress with two drag queens 2. I went to finishing/charm school 3. In college I went to get a tattoo, but chickened out 4. As a girl, I had a pet squirrel 5. My first job was helping my grandfather castrate calves when I was 12 6. I am deathly afraid of spiders 7. I hated #2’s name for the... Read more

“Barack Obama must have had a hard time at school when he was a kid because his initials were B.O.” Now back to our regularly scheduled blogging. Read more

A few days ago, I gave readers the chance to ask me anything they wanted to know about me. If you have a question for “the Mom” then there’s still time to ask. Therese asked:what is your favourite thing about having many children?The laughter. I laugh more at myself, at the weird things they do and say, and at life in general. They bring so much joy to our house. So, yeah, the laughter. What is your worse thing about... Read more