tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923314151300902512024-02-21T20:05:54.786-05:00My Mark of HumilityA Catholic-Homeschooling-Wife-Mom & Artist Trying to Live a Life of Virtue.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-53188900440164119032014-12-02T08:17:00.002-05:002014-12-02T08:17:30.980-05:00My Sad, Lonely, Little Blog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As you can see, it has been a while since I have visited this little corner of my world...<br />
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I have been seduced by the ease and convenience of Facebook : (<br />
I need to figure out how to link "Mark of Humility" to my Facebook page, but at the moment,<br />
our computer is in its last throes of death...<br />
It won't even let me go back and "edit" what i am doing right now.<br />
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It has been a crazy year...<br />
Scooter was diagnosed with Asthma,<br />
Tilly was hospitalized & diagnosed with Type I Diabetes,<br />
Snorkie ended Thanksgiving in the ER with a mild concussion...<br />
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We are getting through it all with the support of family, friends and most of all Faith!<br />
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Wishing everyone a Blessed Advent!<br />
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and we will see if I can spen some more time in my lovely little Blog world this year....<br />
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-74084260737601679882013-01-23T16:27:00.002-05:002013-01-23T16:27:34.903-05:00A slow, lazy, yucky sort of day...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My sweet little guy is feeling awful today...</div>
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fever, slight cough, runny nose, nausea...</div>
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Daddy is away on business and not feeling very well either.</div>
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Down sort of day...</div>
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Watching movies and finally nibbling on some food...</div>
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Say a prayer for a quick recovery for both of my guys, please.</div>
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Thanks : )</div>
Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-51179324764959968142012-04-20T17:47:00.000-04:002012-04-20T17:47:56.043-04:00My Favorite Renovation: The Girls' Room<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When we first bought this house in 2005</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The "medium" sized bedroom</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">was set up for the girls to share.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The canopy is made from @ 7 yards of light yellow chiffon that </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I found at "W"mart for $1.00/ yard : )</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I used screw in supports and screwed cup hooks into them,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">then used small cafe rods to hang the canopy from the cup hooks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Easy up, easy down to wash, dry and rehang : )</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The doll boxes were built to fit 18" x 24" white picture frames.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I glued the glass into the frame then hinged the frames to the</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">boxes and added magnetic latches (they are hinged at the top).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The lovely toy box with the blue cushion left the room rather quickly...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">we needed two desks sooner than I thought we would : )</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">I stayed up WAY too late last night (1:40am)</div><div style="text-align: center;">reading <u><strong>A Night to Remember</strong></u></div><div style="text-align: center;">It is truely a wonderful book and </div><div style="text-align: center;">so very sad to realize that when it was published (1955),</div><div style="text-align: center;">those who had survived the Titanic disaster were</div><div style="text-align: center;">aging and would not be around to consult anymore...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Well worth reading...(I only started it in the afternoon)...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have to remember to talk to my family members more often.</div><div style="text-align: center;">All those thoughts and dreams and memories</div><div style="text-align: center;">will be lost if they are not shared.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I also have to remember to write things down for</div><div style="text-align: center;">my own children. My own memories, hopes and dreams.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-54390743517742441492012-04-09T16:00:00.000-04:002012-04-09T16:00:05.437-04:00Latest Cakes...Catching Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Somewhat out of focus "Princess Cake"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnyLFOV8TAobAWLa2bcN9cJo8DNkS1zW7ScneOaVMCkxJuEInOkzK-_gZzalRdM3k80PSUgI3JURWD_jNM9x2BKwsTJJ1lVfN40ljT5aCfYGHobk_OKlD_q39kBegbfqLS7MdoZ-u8oHE/s1600/Feb+2012+050.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" nda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnyLFOV8TAobAWLa2bcN9cJo8DNkS1zW7ScneOaVMCkxJuEInOkzK-_gZzalRdM3k80PSUgI3JURWD_jNM9x2BKwsTJJ1lVfN40ljT5aCfYGHobk_OKlD_q39kBegbfqLS7MdoZ-u8oHE/s320/Feb+2012+050.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The cake is 4 yellow cake layers with chocolate fudge filling...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Covered with almond flavored fondant...yum.</div><br />
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</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-59206946743974627692012-03-24T11:31:00.000-04:002012-03-24T11:31:15.564-04:00Our Proud Cub!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX0tevSZYpe0zHnb-45Mx4LvFgAmjthOk6xPeKXjLmjvELajyZW6RJERD4CDM25lRMYXjjLbzLuPDFSB5GAfkS95-9RSJ4rIW8WS2-4RTF8PmRcSZMYRD9zJEu8fk-oyRZzWNaWZ3258Y/s1600/Feb+2012+105.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX0tevSZYpe0zHnb-45Mx4LvFgAmjthOk6xPeKXjLmjvELajyZW6RJERD4CDM25lRMYXjjLbzLuPDFSB5GAfkS95-9RSJ4rIW8WS2-4RTF8PmRcSZMYRD9zJEu8fk-oyRZzWNaWZ3258Y/s320/Feb+2012+105.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is our "big guy's" first year as a cub scout</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">His car came in second place...by HUNDREDTHS of a second</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in our Pack's Pinewood Derby!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He is Soooooo proud of his accomplishment!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Little man is having lots of fun in scouting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Day camp type events, over night at the Franlin Institute,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">nature hikes, making bows and arrows...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">such wonderful boyhood adventures!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He follows a long family line of Boys scouts including his big brother,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Grandpop, uncles and two cousins who both made Eagle : )</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">May he continue the tradition!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">God Bless you little man!</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-85069342016592618142012-03-15T20:03:00.000-04:002012-03-15T20:03:20.383-04:00The Newest Members of the Family : )<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is Zalia curled up on the living room couch</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She's put on some weight since she came home with us...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She was only 6 1/2 pounds when we got her...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">she has gained at least a pound since then...lol.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvxUkRcGLRhiOmSWNZXo0qpxpJvK2_B3rMOymHnvY3jO9HDRXs350sijg6zc0hbHv0550FH_TJpJtJX8AjEaOYZElGQT50_3l-JCpwkMxC4qp2-eDoYc3YzcdY09Tzn9nfn-LrlGjLGvg/s1600/zalia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvxUkRcGLRhiOmSWNZXo0qpxpJvK2_B3rMOymHnvY3jO9HDRXs350sijg6zc0hbHv0550FH_TJpJtJX8AjEaOYZElGQT50_3l-JCpwkMxC4qp2-eDoYc3YzcdY09Tzn9nfn-LrlGjLGvg/s1600/zalia.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Hunny" in the yard with the wind in her hair : ) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She is doing well as the newest member of the household...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hunny and I at the store before we brought her home!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She is a 4 month old "Morkie"...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1st generation cross of purebred Yorkie and purebred Maltese.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She is a "Butterscotch/ Blonde/ Golden Morkie</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She fits right in with the rest of the blondes around here : )</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPnh82hRGcZ0rwFm2c3iAvVsreXLk7duefu0Mqr4ZEzOU0QOdiVR97ZKUdBUuFP3JQ0_8_KH2lbhaJ__1nwpiOM_3rIyfg2mwbkGs8wXw0oLK2cfindpV2comvUpHYASRqx6Ynu-nYg3o/s1600/Joanne+and+Zalia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPnh82hRGcZ0rwFm2c3iAvVsreXLk7duefu0Mqr4ZEzOU0QOdiVR97ZKUdBUuFP3JQ0_8_KH2lbhaJ__1nwpiOM_3rIyfg2mwbkGs8wXw0oLK2cfindpV2comvUpHYASRqx6Ynu-nYg3o/s1600/Joanne+and+Zalia.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Zalia is a one year old Tortois Shell/ Calico Mix...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We hit the "kitty Jackpot" with this one...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She LOVES to cuddle!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-50335460009733469742012-02-29T17:40:00.000-05:002012-02-29T17:40:12.463-05:00Pretty Kitty<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">We got a New Kitty Cat!</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">Her name is "Zalia" (zah-lee-a)</div><div style="text-align: center;">that's the name she had at the animal shelter and it suits her</div><div style="text-align: center;">She is a Calico/tortois shell mix</div><div style="text-align: center;">she was @ 6 pounds when we brought her home but she is </div><div style="text-align: center;">seven pounds now and on "weight maintenance" food!</div><div style="text-align: center;">She LOVES to eat!</div><div style="text-align: center;">She also loves to snuggle, be petted and,</div><div style="text-align: center;">unfortunately</div><div style="text-align: center;">take swipes at Lumpy's face : (</div><div style="text-align: center;">He loves her anyway!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaZryFnWqOvZ4QjnpLU2I8LONtT3dUtor1fatcCqn-8FqPPoUFm9uh17emQtikTD-gpxioRTlzbT1Fb-JeU2Wnt2tQVPHuDzWTo4PSUGPIzR7dYXee68H4q_l2gXtcwMZKRMyCCgZS4o/s1600/Feb+2012+056.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaZryFnWqOvZ4QjnpLU2I8LONtT3dUtor1fatcCqn-8FqPPoUFm9uh17emQtikTD-gpxioRTlzbT1Fb-JeU2Wnt2tQVPHuDzWTo4PSUGPIzR7dYXee68H4q_l2gXtcwMZKRMyCCgZS4o/s320/Feb+2012+056.JPG" uda="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Scooter thinks she's leaning out of the photo ; )</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">There are lots more great photos...but the are on the girls' </div><div style="text-align: center;">cameras and i-pods...I'll get some up here soon!</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"></div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-21973361739105636612011-09-24T18:36:00.000-04:002011-09-24T18:36:56.590-04:00We Know Not the Day or the Hour...<div style="text-align: center;">I spent some time last week (10th, 11th 12th) </div><div style="text-align: center;">trying to figure out what to say about my <em>personal 9-11.</em></div><div style="text-align: center;">35 years ago </div><div style="text-align: center;">my mother had a massive coronary on September 2nd...</div><div style="text-align: center;">she spent nine days in ICU and never regained consciousness.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Each of us: Dad, brothers, sister, myself, had some time to </div><div style="text-align: center;">come to terms with the fact that Mommy was </div><div style="text-align: center;">simply not coming home ever again.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> She died on September 11, 1976...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am 47now... 35 of those years have been "Motherless".</div><div style="text-align: center;">This year was more difficult than many...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I finally figured out</div><div style="text-align: center;">- with the help of the Holy Spirit-</div><div style="text-align: center;">what was bothering me...</div><div style="text-align: center;">My eldest daughter is now the same age as I was </div><div style="text-align: center;">on that awful day...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I prayed so hard that she would not have to experience</div><div style="text-align: center;">the pain of a loss like that at so young an age.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We had a wonderful day on Saturday the 10th at a Healing Mass,</div><div style="text-align: center;">and having some spiritual direction as a family.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Seeker Man was approaching a big legal date</div><div style="text-align: center;">that we have been praying about for many months.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was a difficult weekend, but we made it through...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then Tuesday morning the phone rang.</div><div style="text-align: center;">My Sister-in- Law sounded horrible...</div><div style="text-align: center;">her voice caught...</div><div style="text-align: center;">she told me that my brother had a heart attack...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I waited to hear that he was in the hospital...</div><div style="text-align: center;">he was not.</div><div style="text-align: center;">He was dead</div><div style="text-align: center;">at 52.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcXEQiM_zZfzNRXR7nB3zsu0HMfCfB5-Hy1q3xAOAJtED8SO29whEEbzF147R7heWaN0fM-qCzAi2x4M5yUDwDLfyn2hq6wLSy4LxzQyY7_zQIFVaCamF-1hR97HJeyXq78EDTYpG1vkc/s1600/Autumn+2008+079.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcXEQiM_zZfzNRXR7nB3zsu0HMfCfB5-Hy1q3xAOAJtED8SO29whEEbzF147R7heWaN0fM-qCzAi2x4M5yUDwDLfyn2hq6wLSy4LxzQyY7_zQIFVaCamF-1hR97HJeyXq78EDTYpG1vkc/s320/Autumn+2008+079.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(This photo was from one of his 50th birthday gatherings)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He was my eldest daughter's God Father.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">In the last week, I have seen my Dad and Step-Mom,</div><div style="text-align: center;">My eldest brother and his wife from Florida,</div><div style="text-align: center;">My sister and her family who live in Illinois,</div><div style="text-align: center;">Many cousins and Aunts and Uncles...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I <u>loved and hated</u> every minute of it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We laughed alot and cried alot...</div><div style="text-align: center;">and prayed so very much.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Surely, we do not know the day nor the hour...</div><div style="text-align: center;">make those phone calls.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Write those letters.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Say "I Love You" more often.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Give big hugs.</div><div style="text-align: center;">You will be glad you did.</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-38440192908252920472011-09-03T08:59:00.000-04:002011-09-03T08:59:51.756-04:00So many things to say...<div style="text-align: center;">Well, I HAD intended to use the summer months </div><div style="text-align: center;">to catch up and try to post AT LEAST weekly...</div><div style="text-align: center;">HA!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here it is September 3rd and I have been away from</div><div style="text-align: center;">this blog for months again.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I blame all the fabulous bloggers out there who</div><div style="text-align: center;">attract my attention with their wonderful writing</div><div style="text-align: center;">and keep me reading other's work</div><div style="text-align: center;">instead of writing my own!</div><div style="text-align: center;">I really have to do some housecleaning on here to </div><div style="text-align: center;">update the blogroll, etc. I have been behind</div><div style="text-align: center;">in keeping this place organized...</div><div style="text-align: center;">sort of like my house : )</div><div style="text-align: center;">I want to try to catch up on some of the things we did</div><div style="text-align: center;">this summer: <em>Catholic Familyland</em>, family funeral,</div><div style="text-align: center;">family wedding, the girls trip to <em>Morningstar Camp</em>,</div><div style="text-align: center;">the boys and I in Massachusetts while the girls</div><div style="text-align: center;">were in New Hampshire...</div><div style="text-align: center;">oh, and the eternally ongoing </div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>"minor"</strong></em> kitchen renovation...</div><div style="text-align: center;">as well as planning for our homeschool co-op...</div><div style="text-align: center;">the first time I am teaching something more </div><div style="text-align: center;">difficult than the art classes...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Middle School History!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pray for me!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-21463995154945853872011-06-28T10:40:00.000-04:002011-06-28T10:40:17.018-04:00It's been a long, long time...<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">On the 16th of June we had our "Portflio Review" </div><div style="text-align: center;">and "officially" ended our school year...</div><div style="text-align: center;">of course we still have things to do and to finish </div><div style="text-align: center;">over the Summer, but we are done with the heavy stuff...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I still have to drop the portfolio off the </div><div style="text-align: center;">School district for review...but that is a formality.</div><div style="text-align: center;">You'd think I'd be nice and rested this week...<br />
But last week was Vacation Bible School and I was a teacher.<br />
We ALL had a great time, but it is flat out <br />
EXHAUSTING!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It has been ages since I posted last...<br />
(March 29th to be exact)</div><div style="text-align: center;">so many things have happened,</div><div style="text-align: center;">gone on, are in the works or are happening...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I cannot talk about some of it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I cannot remember all of it...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I would like to share a few things...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I would like to get back to my original intention</div><div style="text-align: center;">for starting this blog...I had such plans!</div><div style="text-align: center;">HA! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">God has His own plans and HIS purposes for everything.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Today I read an article encouraging Catholics to just </div><div style="text-align: center;">BE</div><div style="text-align: center;">on electronic media. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I like that idea. </div><div style="text-align: center;">My Catholicism, My Faith, </div><div style="text-align: center;">should be evident in my life & in my posts...</div><div style="text-align: center;">no need to hit anyone over the head...</div><div style="text-align: center;">no need to preach...just be.<br />
I am going to try to post more often, though<br />
with summer upon us and a couple of trips planned, <br />
I won't PROMISE anything : )<br />
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</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-54022457583585505122011-03-29T15:37:00.000-04:002011-03-29T15:37:23.479-04:00Confirmation!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4pRjPNvM96A1ZVtp42gSTFX4VT2LoGdRlCHupzhUkGww1dd6TYPYVV9VjOJ7SQ_VsV6Cvbrc6cW15blg9CHVz4EK8EwKk3_bGGkTLS2ok5E9Ro30uv3Dsf6-eiv-PP9jtrLPkP49T5VM/s1600/March+2011+056.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4pRjPNvM96A1ZVtp42gSTFX4VT2LoGdRlCHupzhUkGww1dd6TYPYVV9VjOJ7SQ_VsV6Cvbrc6cW15blg9CHVz4EK8EwKk3_bGGkTLS2ok5E9Ro30uv3Dsf6-eiv-PP9jtrLPkP49T5VM/s320/March+2011+056.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not a great photo of Scooter...but the only one we took </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">with just her and her sponsor with the Bishop...</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqvGmqgjV3Fw9aemBOoswM4GtKrTAskPlmnc8eyQFzrB7m-s8fHbyHk4k0gaBtHAzZA6DywiHn2Gx_PfelHab7xhQTIQHstZ-Lg19033KqYC8mfH3UOoSk0sv78JJs7Kmq0aOlDitq6nY/s1600/March+2011+058.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqvGmqgjV3Fw9aemBOoswM4GtKrTAskPlmnc8eyQFzrB7m-s8fHbyHk4k0gaBtHAzZA6DywiHn2Gx_PfelHab7xhQTIQHstZ-Lg19033KqYC8mfH3UOoSk0sv78JJs7Kmq0aOlDitq6nY/s320/March+2011+058.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Much better photo with the whole family!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXWVLreHi-4iMFu3JNHEOkrJjX9VgHPPyRl6ogYB9Jt2hAn7rx-D1d1jJxCnkhoHL1wNFCmVFdSr_5IUkC36TsUoeyVlO6vL-KEEbD5e6zC98g22883RasEH6WFbhhHq1ihoRMGqY4L_U/s1600/March+2011+065.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXWVLreHi-4iMFu3JNHEOkrJjX9VgHPPyRl6ogYB9Jt2hAn7rx-D1d1jJxCnkhoHL1wNFCmVFdSr_5IUkC36TsUoeyVlO6vL-KEEbD5e6zC98g22883RasEH6WFbhhHq1ihoRMGqY4L_U/s320/March+2011+065.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a very fancy dinner out for our newly Confirmed Catholic!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I used to waitress at this restaurant...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">LOVE the tableside cooking!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjunwKcpiW-om00QbPic1y4oUPHY71kh_RayjdnMtKIjwW2UYei63tWmMFh8yq5xhLOQIudMnxa4DHAFXNor6RKEMHzNjwxEb9ago90FYtRbPALqxNGyfvwXRlAa5-U0iU0PzrxOGcyGuU/s1600/March+2011+060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjunwKcpiW-om00QbPic1y4oUPHY71kh_RayjdnMtKIjwW2UYei63tWmMFh8yq5xhLOQIudMnxa4DHAFXNor6RKEMHzNjwxEb9ago90FYtRbPALqxNGyfvwXRlAa5-U0iU0PzrxOGcyGuU/s320/March+2011+060.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">CONGRATULATIONS Scooter!</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-9208628991233987012011-03-15T21:59:00.000-04:002011-03-15T21:59:25.088-04:00A Pi Day Celebration<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ever since my kids watched </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Night at the Museum: </u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Battle of the Smithsonian</u>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">they have all ('cept the baby)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">been able to quote "Pi" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">to eight decimal places....</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>3.14159265</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We love that scene with the Bobble Head Einsteins...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Soooooooooo</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">we <u>HAD</u> to celebrate </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>PI Day</strong> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">March 13th</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">(get it...3.14) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">some go so far as to </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">celebrate at exactly 1:59 pm...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">For dinner, w</span><span style="font-size: large;">e had </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">homemade Turkey Pot "Pi"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and simple baked apples </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">in Spelt flour "Pi" crust...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">(dad gave up sugar for lent)...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was so much fun, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">especially because Scooter </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">just finished studying the </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Area and Perimeter of a circle!</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tilly and Snorkie have been doing fractions this week...</div><div style="text-align: center;">"pieces of the pie" and Scooter started Pie Charts!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Perfect Timing!</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhckrqIVqat_S7hB5w8Py6wfe37MwncMoMbIFn8wlkO-_Jz0wnDNWBDfZ8NWZA1Bd_ni8_eaZunfnyt9zGOnw_XJqlYn37ugyxeLaXuvf0HICo8tJWKhAr2hToOQ5wXLb-_58S2cw7PBrk/s1600/Easy-as-apple-pi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhckrqIVqat_S7hB5w8Py6wfe37MwncMoMbIFn8wlkO-_Jz0wnDNWBDfZ8NWZA1Bd_ni8_eaZunfnyt9zGOnw_XJqlYn37ugyxeLaXuvf0HICo8tJWKhAr2hToOQ5wXLb-_58S2cw7PBrk/s1600/Easy-as-apple-pi.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> (found this image and thought that I will </div><div style="text-align: center;">HAVE to do this next year...</div><div style="text-align: center;">it is an Actual apple Pie</div><div style="text-align: center;">baked to look like a math book, </div><div style="text-align: center;">with Pi cut into the top crust!)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-82046417054059379232011-03-07T21:03:00.000-05:002011-03-07T21:03:56.605-05:00Mardi GrasHere it is...the feast before the fast...<br />
a few decadent photos before Lent begins...<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Scooter and Snorkie's </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Voyage of the Dawn Treader cake...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">they are 12 nad 6 this year...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">:::sniff:::</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Amazing how time flies...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the ship is 4 layers of brownie...yum.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the ocean is yellow cake and Aslan on the beach is plastic</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A "Despicable" birthday event....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvjDdLAREESwvwK0wffU4F7H_kOSOGuv0EJWPzHX5rViaVBZnhTY4HB1cazi8MmqrXG2uoxdPzWjm71VcOy9IDJ89BihuQPIfdfIR5txgR6K_OUVnciyvrb1CGx8nKZLSbmFDCVoK_FO4/s1600/February+2011+019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvjDdLAREESwvwK0wffU4F7H_kOSOGuv0EJWPzHX5rViaVBZnhTY4HB1cazi8MmqrXG2uoxdPzWjm71VcOy9IDJ89BihuQPIfdfIR5txgR6K_OUVnciyvrb1CGx8nKZLSbmFDCVoK_FO4/s320/February+2011+019.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Snorkie's "Best" friends party...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Welcome Minions!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">9 little minions in flannel minion shirts with felt goggles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We had so much fun...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">all the little minions after games...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Munching Minions....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Snorkie wears his shirt at LEAST</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">once a week...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We had all minion food...Goldfish crackers, cheese doodles,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">popcorn, mini pretzels, lemonade...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH8_3ByjMn79mT3OI3Z9gytCGqchWfHn4s0_Nh-mBBJVWmBq8L7QfjgrAfr6703dCwQAKgUK3hQPAHEMBaLLoCxNYZg_cMJKyJF3KkCf-ugTY3z68l_yuHh-qCkGjt8RmmtWkkKe6idsc/s1600/February+2011+025.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH8_3ByjMn79mT3OI3Z9gytCGqchWfHn4s0_Nh-mBBJVWmBq8L7QfjgrAfr6703dCwQAKgUK3hQPAHEMBaLLoCxNYZg_cMJKyJF3KkCf-ugTY3z68l_yuHh-qCkGjt8RmmtWkkKe6idsc/s320/February+2011+025.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My FAVORITE Minion</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">::::hugs::::</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Can you believe that he's 15 month old already???</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-47933329710896259532011-02-16T13:45:00.000-05:002011-02-16T13:45:36.389-05:00Happy Birthday Scooter!<div style="text-align: center;">Today my beautiful Scooter MacDougall turns 12!!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Eeeeek</div><div style="text-align: center;">She got her ears pierced for her birthday gift </div><div style="text-align: center;">(yesterday)</div><div style="text-align: center;">and we had the "party" last weekend</div><div style="text-align: center;">(cake photos to follow).</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tonight we are having her "choice" of dinner</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Bacon and Eggs</div><div style="text-align: center;">(the<em><strong> real</strong></em> stuff)</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm going to try homemade English Muffins...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Amazing how time flies!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-29515132437551095542011-01-26T11:09:00.000-05:002011-01-26T11:09:43.413-05:00Catch-up Wednesday<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is a snowy day in Easten PA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I will have to shovel in a little while...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">BUT...I can waste some time by</div><div style="text-align: center;">catching up on some of the photos </div><div style="text-align: center;">accumulating since November.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis5sJB-7nzUr87NXGiGqa-YkGTFLIINqeIewmnNc0rBZMkDcGtgewFZ9qOe1J5AggWSonC096V6695O93Kqg8U5W9kp_do3du82lNHw7awkY5-slupRapZH74m7YwSLXTJM2fYW-3steg/s1600/December+2010+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis5sJB-7nzUr87NXGiGqa-YkGTFLIINqeIewmnNc0rBZMkDcGtgewFZ9qOe1J5AggWSonC096V6695O93Kqg8U5W9kp_do3du82lNHw7awkY5-slupRapZH74m7YwSLXTJM2fYW-3steg/s320/December+2010+002.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tillie's family Birthday Party cake...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mommy Hedgehog and 12 babies...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(German Chocolate cake with Chocolate Mousse icing)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">encrusted with chocolate sprinkles...YUM</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgECkynQhNRsI2EnBZAj2sEaLl6sQuXwwCWHW2Q-iPrF4mSEnvgNtU4XF5OcnWwV-81KivMIA7BJpDninmUAa9qzxscLQ3BhrNtSMXHKo5PsUJiz7TqGKdgwfYkzuUJF5UDmiPAzqcRdeQ/s1600/December+2010+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgECkynQhNRsI2EnBZAj2sEaLl6sQuXwwCWHW2Q-iPrF4mSEnvgNtU4XF5OcnWwV-81KivMIA7BJpDninmUAa9qzxscLQ3BhrNtSMXHKo5PsUJiz7TqGKdgwfYkzuUJF5UDmiPAzqcRdeQ/s320/December+2010+004.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lumpy is my "Turtle Man"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the red looked more "brown" without the flash...</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqKjGWNff6f6ljLZtoK5ycdH8l-33iF9U1Ebg0PoWZ9Y1buSNWImmTrJ9Qt_kg1kpcq8gzuWnramrFSOkfoalYjn-EKBw33xwLzOr9WsYnrd1sg26wlGPH7HhgW0kWyNXjijhrrKTvsTo/s1600/December+2010+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqKjGWNff6f6ljLZtoK5ycdH8l-33iF9U1Ebg0PoWZ9Y1buSNWImmTrJ9Qt_kg1kpcq8gzuWnramrFSOkfoalYjn-EKBw33xwLzOr9WsYnrd1sg26wlGPH7HhgW0kWyNXjijhrrKTvsTo/s320/December+2010+001.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The hedgehog baby faces were Hershey's Kisses</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">covered in fondant...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tilly did the faces and ears for all the babies...</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy9cPEISrMcA8mkr9AA4WEu0B3gw210QEDyCFNxeCukG5EfNnSA0O9uwcn8hdKcRpZ3-9jFcJQhGyD0-MaSOJxiaoYy2pdGvs9aMG2kEHTnkdaaWube6nubQOOrPiwchI32JNJ9fAvuIg/s1600/December+2010+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy9cPEISrMcA8mkr9AA4WEu0B3gw210QEDyCFNxeCukG5EfNnSA0O9uwcn8hdKcRpZ3-9jFcJQhGyD0-MaSOJxiaoYy2pdGvs9aMG2kEHTnkdaaWube6nubQOOrPiwchI32JNJ9fAvuIg/s320/December+2010+005.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lumpy's cake was <em><strong>RATHER</strong></em> Large...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">three layers of orange cake with vanilla icing and</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">covered with almond flavored homemade fondant.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We took all the leftovers to my sister's house...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">we left the next morning to get there...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8giTvPIJ6hOtFZ9bcMDiu1JpDzmq3AAz9Be6vwFYisLQZ2OqdLMDoAhIH5AIj7UQV-5oHG7Ft0fFaSMsYmNyeTym9U5yt2vR7QNaWxjQUqlYYaHHkOjf6NMgemuWBsX_D_ezkx4cpINg/s1600/December+2010+019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8giTvPIJ6hOtFZ9bcMDiu1JpDzmq3AAz9Be6vwFYisLQZ2OqdLMDoAhIH5AIj7UQV-5oHG7Ft0fFaSMsYmNyeTym9U5yt2vR7QNaWxjQUqlYYaHHkOjf6NMgemuWBsX_D_ezkx4cpINg/s320/December+2010+019.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At my big sister's house in Illinois...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Grandpop and Grandmom celebrating all five</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">November and December Birthdays...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(two of my kids & three of my sisters)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the Day after Thanksgiving : )</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We celebrate Thanksgiving, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">five birthdays and Christmas...in three days!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tillie's "friend" Birthday Party was a </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><strong><em>The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe</em></strong></u> theme...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We had bows and arrows to shoot at the witch's wolves,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">put the tail on the Beaver and a white witch's wand piniata...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">she had @ 20 boys and girls at the house for the day!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoCvZdvK7VOBFqwizmRr31UpKL0d4WZ0kQlbryRa1sT5iwKxzJVefQuCYfiNZiLB1n12LQKBltfCap9xnTaX32LF9uAAPCO7CgvMLKbETW3-huo_iZEzi9pNl0vzslNPjLgomHxHtPr_g/s1600/New+York+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoCvZdvK7VOBFqwizmRr31UpKL0d4WZ0kQlbryRa1sT5iwKxzJVefQuCYfiNZiLB1n12LQKBltfCap9xnTaX32LF9uAAPCO7CgvMLKbETW3-huo_iZEzi9pNl0vzslNPjLgomHxHtPr_g/s320/New+York+007.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I made a "mold" for casting </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the wardrobe pieces out of craft foam...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">we drew the light chocolate designs first, and then</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">poured the dark chocolate over top for an "inlaid" look.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This party was actually in Early November : )</div><br />
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</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-78704942147986810332011-01-21T10:45:00.000-05:002011-01-21T10:45:55.282-05:00This Year's Christmas Pajamas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcKobkS4Rjz0Otut6I6dBE3j0YRJPD6JYlWOMWe2WPgI7W3Rd_vMGhdeNMJoqGYegaTYevTlRBo0b_RdzdVA0Z2LgaPQODLbo0qPcHGk337Muvw2KSDJcS1PRGFGnaWcshRl2u9CK8nc8/s1600/January+2011+017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcKobkS4Rjz0Otut6I6dBE3j0YRJPD6JYlWOMWe2WPgI7W3Rd_vMGhdeNMJoqGYegaTYevTlRBo0b_RdzdVA0Z2LgaPQODLbo0qPcHGk337Muvw2KSDJcS1PRGFGnaWcshRl2u9CK8nc8/s320/January+2011+017.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Back in 1964, my very first Christmas,</div><div align="center">my father got an 8mm movie camera,</div><div align="center">So, basically, my entire childhood (at least major events)</div><div align="center">has been captured in 30 second increments....</div><div align="center">(that film was EXPENSIVE)</div><div align="center">Anyway, I think this was the origin of the </div><div align="center">"New PJs on Christmas Eve"</div><div align="center">tradition in my family...</div><div align="center">(sometimes it was a new bathrobe and slippers)</div><div align="center">This allowed us to look cute in those films</div><div align="center">that Dad made on Christmas morning...</div><div align="center">no holes in our footies or torn jammie pants.</div><div align="center">So, now, even if my kids have perfectly presentable PJs,</div><div align="center">I generally make them something new.</div><div align="center">I love to sew.</div><div align="center">This is one fun way to keep</div><div align="center">all the kids matching</div><div align="center">at least for bedtime.....LOL.</div><div align="center">My "eldest" has been trying </div><div align="center">to sleep in her sweatshirts all year...</div><div align="center">So....I decided to make this year's jammies</div><div align="center">out of <strong>sweatshirt fleece</strong>...</div><div align="center">I had a 50% coupon for a single cut of fabric...</div><div align="center">I snuck out of the house on Friday evening...</div><div align="center">and the only color they had enough of...</div><div align="center">was<strong> WHITE</strong>.</div><div align="center">THAT gave me the idea for sailor suits...</div><div align="center">and the rest is now family history.</div><div align="center">Little guy looks so cute </div><div align="center">running around in his sailor outfit!</div><div align="center">when he sways like a drunken sailor, he cracks me up!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Thanks Mom, for the tradition!</div><div align="center">Thanks Dad, for the home movies!</div><div align="center">Thanks Big Brother, for making me a video copy</div><div align="center">of so many of those home movies...</div><div align="center">THREE HOURS worth!</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-28713170383479683182011-01-18T19:51:00.000-05:002011-01-18T19:51:20.887-05:00Belated Christmas photo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0KWA5mblDUpXahoufcYpSSe-nQgl3qnQqxvdSBEpTE-nnjffbmXWHD9ZlUTkjA-UydviWujhgqwq9BthkQMHdKNcQ-pVh-qi75U7w8Ln5Mb41-M1__WF_Hn3TpQR6KGDEKGxm1TcP-o0/s1600/christmas-2010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0KWA5mblDUpXahoufcYpSSe-nQgl3qnQqxvdSBEpTE-nnjffbmXWHD9ZlUTkjA-UydviWujhgqwq9BthkQMHdKNcQ-pVh-qi75U7w8Ln5Mb41-M1__WF_Hn3TpQR6KGDEKGxm1TcP-o0/s320/christmas-2010.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lovey's company holds a </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Christmas Party for the Children </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">the first weekend in December.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Santa is Wonderful, Lovable &</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">OH, SO, Real.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We have known him for years</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and my girls have grown up with him.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gotta love a happy Santa picture!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">BTW: the last two years have been </div><div style="text-align: center;">a Pajama Party!</div><div style="text-align: center;">They get their pictures taken with </div><div style="text-align: center;">Santa and then have a craft (decorating</div><div style="text-align: center;">sugar cookies) then they have milk and cookies</div><div style="text-align: center;">and got crayons and a coloring book.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Santa gets into HIS jammies </div><div style="text-align: center;">before he reads the kids a story...</div><div style="text-align: center;">They also get neat gifts...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Good Time Was Had By All!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The girls are wearing the satin nightgowns,</div><div style="text-align: center;">lined with flannel, </div><div style="text-align: center;">that I made for them last year </div><div style="text-align: center;">for their Christmas Eve gift...</div><div style="text-align: center;">A tradition started by my mother...</div><div style="text-align: center;">THAT will be another post : )</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">(Lumpy is in "Clifford" jammies</div><div style="text-align: center;">complete with ears and tail...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Snorkie is wearing Star Wars flannels...</div><div style="text-align: center;">of course.)</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-36842256499523459852011-01-17T14:01:00.000-05:002011-01-17T14:01:10.529-05:00My New Toy<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have been reading...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">(the Blogs I follow as well as some classic Lit)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">doing Crossword and Sudoku puzzles, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">checking email, searching ebay....</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">all while lounging in my recliner, nursing the baby...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">My Darling Hubby got me a ColorNook for Christmas!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">woo hoo</span></div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-51201842288904084562010-11-07T19:49:00.000-05:002010-11-07T19:49:11.217-05:00Voyage of Discovery<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lovey and I were married on </div><div style="text-align: center;">October 12, 1996</div><div style="text-align: center;">Columbus Day</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We chose the date for several reasons...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">not the least of which is </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">low humidity in New Jersey in Oct.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and as I have always said...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Marriage <strong><em>IS</em></strong> a Voyage of Discovery!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We were married in the morning </div><div style="text-align: center;">with an early afternon reception.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We had a 4 day Honeymoon in Ocean City Maryland</div><div style="text-align: center;">Amazingly, the church we attended that weekend was having </div><div style="text-align: center;">their annual 40 Hours Devotion.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We went.</div><div style="text-align: center;">My husband was not yet Catholic : )</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Every year Lovey brings me one red rose </div><div style="text-align: center;">for each year that we have been Married...</div><div style="text-align: center;">This year, there were 14!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center">Beautiful, aren't they?</div><div align="center">All flowers are offered to the Blessed Mother</div><div align="center">in this house...</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Some things that I have learned on this Voyage...</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I am capable of loving my husband even more today </div><div align="center">than</div><div align="center">the day that I married him!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We can look forward to the next 14 years with </div><div style="text-align: center;">fascination and excitement!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am amazed at the faith life and desire for sanctity</div><div style="text-align: center;">that my husband has.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He is one of the most loving people I know...</div><div style="text-align: center;">and I don't tell him that often enough.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He is an AWSOME DAD!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center">I wish we were young enough... </div><div align="center">to have a <strong>dozen</strong> children together!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I know I will think of 20 more things after I post this,</div><div align="center">but, I had better go...</div><div align="center">Lovey will be home from his Holy Hour with Snorkie soon</div><div align="center">and Chewba is calling...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-21459678003817305872010-10-20T20:45:00.000-04:002010-10-20T20:45:07.067-04:00Florida Vacation Photos!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It has been so long since </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have written anything meaningful...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I <u><em>still</em></u> don't have time...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I thought I had better </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">put some of these vacation photos</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> on the blog...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Before Christmas arrives!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">(we left home on Sept 15th and arrived home on Sept 27th)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">These are totally mixed up </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I'm not taking the time to try </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">to arrange them chronologically... : p</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">(This is one thing that drives me crazy about blogger)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is one of the "Jesus" players at the Holy Land Experience...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Notice Snorkie is very happy!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also at the Holy Land...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Of course, my kids were playing "Narnia"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">with "Aslan"</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here we are at the Magic Kingdom...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Notice Snorkie is NOT thrilled to meet Mickey & Minnie!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is Lumpy with his sweet Uncle ...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He liked the crutches.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Uncle Silly-Man is my "Biggest" brother who lives in Florida...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He and His wife came to the Townhouse we were renting</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">for dinner...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And Birthday Cake!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">His Birthday was the month before...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We stopped in St. Augustine </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">on the way to Kissimmee from Jacksonville Beach...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We did the Trolley Tour and stopped at the little shrine to </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our Lady of La Leche...I thought it was appropriate</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">since Lumpy nursed any time he had a chance!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(the ENTIRE vacation)</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the little church we attended </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in Orlando on Sunday morning.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sacred Heart Parish</span>...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Traditional Latin Mass...so Lovely</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the site in St.Augustine where the </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">first Mass was celebrated in the "New World" !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(it was the first thing that they did)</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With Lovey's Aunt & Uncle in Jacksonville Beach...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On their Balcony right on the ocean.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Snorkie got a stuffed snake at the gift shop</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">at th Jacksonville zoo...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tilly got an Ostrich...adorable!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">PapPap's 80th Birthday celebration at Red Lobster...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Lovey's Dad and Step Mom live in Bradenton and </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">came to stay with us for three days while we were down there)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...turns out the waitress was from Doylestown, Pa...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">about 20 minutes from my house...Small World.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After Sea World, we went to <em><strong>Downtown Disney</strong></em> for dinner.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was a Dinosaur themed restaurant with a </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">meteor shower every 20 minutes and moving</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">lifesized dinos! WOW!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Ha! Hadn't noticed that Scooter looks so thrilled...LOL</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tilly is happy with her tall bone shaped slurpee).</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now my yearly <em>Marathon</em> starts...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Halloween / Holy-Ween costumes...</div><div style="text-align: center;">November Birthdays Tilly (10) and Lumpy (1)! </div><div style="text-align: center;">(yikes, that was fast)</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thankgiving trip to my sisters in Illinois</div><div style="text-align: center;">(we celebrate 5 birthdays ((three of hers, two of mine)), </div><div style="text-align: center;">Thanksgiving and Christmas)</div><div style="text-align: center;">Christmas at home</div><div style="text-align: center;">Followed by February birthdays...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Snorkie (6) and Scooter (12).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Late Summer is often a lovely time, but this week has been yucky.</div><div style="text-align: center;">60's overnight and overcast or rainy days make lousy weather </div><div style="text-align: center;">for getting in a few more pool adventures.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I still have to make my own swim Skort...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Chewba loves the water and wants me to take</div><div style="text-align: center;">him in whenever I can...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I desperately need to order books...</div><div style="text-align: center;">today...</div><div style="text-align: center;">actually, now would be good : )</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Chewba is almost exactly 9 months old RIGHT NOW</div><div style="text-align: center;">(it's 9:55am and he was born 10:12 am)</div><div style="text-align: center;">He needs me soon...</div><div style="text-align: center;">He has been eating everything he is given lately...</div><div style="text-align: center;">doesn't like baby food, just the real stuff.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh, and nursing...though those teeth are becoming</div><div style="text-align: center;">rather....painful : (</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(for me)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We started back to school last week.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I like to do 2 or 3 weeks of half days before the </div><div style="text-align: center;">BIG SHOW...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Our Co-Op starts to meet next Thursday!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Looking forward to regular time with all of our friends.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We have TONS of new families joining us this year.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Yippee!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Trying to get Chewba to spend some time in his own bed at night...</div><div style="text-align: center;">not easy...</div><div style="text-align: center;">it would be easier to just leave him in my bed...</div><div style="text-align: center;">It is nice to be able to cuddle with the Hubby </div><div style="text-align: center;">once in a while, though...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Without a baby between us!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Another playdate today...three this week...eek!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Trying to catch up for an August that slipped by me...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pax Christi!</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1992331415130090251.post-23275643737032137572010-08-13T18:53:00.000-04:002010-08-13T18:53:09.715-04:00Morningstar Camp & the Benedictine Abbey & Modest Swimwear!<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">WARNING:</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">This post is a mess </div><div style="text-align: center;">and I don't have the energy to figure out how to fix it...</div><div style="text-align: center;">it IS similar to a 7 quick takes, but I don't have</div><div style="text-align: center;">the umph to link up there, either...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The last few weeks have been pretty interesting...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Scooter planned all year to go </div><div style="text-align: center;">to Morningstar Camp in New Hampshire</div><div style="text-align: center;">with her best friend...The camp is run by </div><div style="text-align: center;">the Sisters Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...</div><div style="text-align: center;">in FULL Habit. </div><div style="text-align: center;">They are amazing.</div><div style="text-align: center;">She developed a cough in the week before camp started...</div><div style="text-align: center;">it wasn't too bad...</div><div style="text-align: center;">until I dropped her off on Sunday : (</div><div style="text-align: center;">Thankfully we were staying at </div><div style="text-align: center;">a Benedictine Abbey in Still River, Mass-</div><div style="text-align: center;">just two hour south of camp...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tuesday night I had to drive up and pick her up.</div><div style="text-align: center;">She loved the camp and wants to go back next year.</div><div style="text-align: center;">hmmmm.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I made it to evening prayer several times </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and morning Mass Mon, Wed, and Fri...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Chewba is a high energy guy...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">it is like wrestling a baby crocodile during Mass-</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">trying to keep him quiet!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Compline was easier because he would nurse</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and the Monks chanted the prayers so I didn't need</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">to worry about following along...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Monks were SO gracious...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'll be going back again, I'm sure.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I could not have gone a week away from my husband </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">without my friend "J".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Chewba just loves her and she made it possible </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">for me to actually EAT a meal once in a while.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is Chewby visiting with a gal named "L" who lives</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">at the Abbey. They had SOOOOOO much fun </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">making faces at each other!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have to send a copy of this photo to her!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxHuNMoarIOh1LHyjyiRvDzCuMaH8yXLvcuqx1o-F1GNRImm6l-tJWDU81HZuxk1d40_7RkaqjD3Rkgpu6-naJgwFCDa9s1pSRcZQ7YNw4yiZgZFKlwLDvvX3dE81ZDrsw2iQcVGu8LJU/s1600/MassachusettsVacationCamp+053.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" bx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxHuNMoarIOh1LHyjyiRvDzCuMaH8yXLvcuqx1o-F1GNRImm6l-tJWDU81HZuxk1d40_7RkaqjD3Rkgpu6-naJgwFCDa9s1pSRcZQ7YNw4yiZgZFKlwLDvvX3dE81ZDrsw2iQcVGu8LJU/s320/MassachusettsVacationCamp+053.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">As soon as we got home Chewba started crawling "for real"</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">He had been scootching around and cruising a little,</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">but now he is officially ON THE GO!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I have been meaning to link up to<br />
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</div><div align="center">1</div><div align="center">We handed in our Homeschooling portfolios on June 29th...</div><div align="center">you'd think I would have gotten them picked up by now : (</div><div align="center">Too many activities going on...</div><div align="center">Play Dates for instance...</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">2 </div><div align="center">Went to see <em><strong>Despicable Me</strong></em> with the kids and a friend </div><div align="center">on Wednesday...I really enjoyed it..</div><div align="center">I loved the accents and critical Mamma's change of heart...</div><div align="center">It looked very PIXAR-ish to me...</div><div align="center">Very sweet story in a "fractured fairytale" way.</div><div align="center">The Minions are hysterical! He He He...</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">3</div><div align="center">We have to start baby-proofing again...</div><div align="center">Lumpy is ready to go...</div><div align="center">This week he pulled himself up at the ottoman </div><div align="center">and took a "cruising" step...</div><div align="center">He also crawled a bit and </div><div align="center">can scootch himself around pretty well.</div><div align="center">Add the LONG ARM of the BABY and we are in TROUBLE</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">4 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixV3n8alS-kVTUCzcSh060ZDcbZIffphze0pyOP8sOkps0UKYi2lvkV9fv0oUdp4jvxaN6RAUXV2ZrmkrmfG6e4WafF15z7UKapkXATYgqz_CwYukG6cn3mM9iR8gxD0Kqpz0UvYg4AmY/s1600/April+2010+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixV3n8alS-kVTUCzcSh060ZDcbZIffphze0pyOP8sOkps0UKYi2lvkV9fv0oUdp4jvxaN6RAUXV2ZrmkrmfG6e4WafF15z7UKapkXATYgqz_CwYukG6cn3mM9iR8gxD0Kqpz0UvYg4AmY/s320/April+2010+006.JPG" /></a></div><div align="center">The biggest trouble is the fact that my house is covered with these</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYonFKDU1fkn9EeSpcvN5YSedDtJ1wMLpBxSukjb-x3ZbdGLM87vStFUZgpn3APyllE1qy7FtJgm5cDijVIdLU_XC1i0rq6ibi6HAz7yNpcd337JVlnCWGJ6gPgbootq3wply1Jh7T0UQ/s1600/April+2010+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYonFKDU1fkn9EeSpcvN5YSedDtJ1wMLpBxSukjb-x3ZbdGLM87vStFUZgpn3APyllE1qy7FtJgm5cDijVIdLU_XC1i0rq6ibi6HAz7yNpcd337JVlnCWGJ6gPgbootq3wply1Jh7T0UQ/s320/April+2010+001.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and these...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also those adorable little erasers in many shapes..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">not to mention marbles and action figures...ugh!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All choking hazzards to a baby who </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">puts EVERYTHING in his mouth!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">5</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I missed doing anything for the </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I should get to the local </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Carmelite Monastery for Mass,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but probably won't...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have lost my momentum lately in my prayer life...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">By the Grace of God I can get back</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">on track SOON...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">6</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Scooter and her best friend are going to </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a camp in New Hampshire the last week in July...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so much to do to prepare...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is called Morning Star Camp & </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> is run by the Sisters Slaves of the immaculate Heart of Mary...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They have Latin Mass every morning and must wear </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">modest clothing and swimwear!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(I have one more swim dress </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">to make for Scooter before she leaves)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">While there, her best friend's mom & I </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">plus the rest of my little ones</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">will be staying @ two hours south at the </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">St Benedict Abbey in Still River, Mass...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have been wanting a retreat forever...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">just not sure how the little ones will do...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pray for us Please!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">7</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lumpy O'Toole has acquired another nick name...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He makes these hilarious noises that sound just like </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Chewbacca from Star Wars...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and he CHEWS EVERYTHING...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Plus he grabs anything he can from your hands, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so his Father has dubbed him:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chewba Grabowski</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3HhcVNkA1oq_i-Jk_GlX_QiXKo6Tz5uwefsGpLvN-Q47ktfsOKhZonwwXrm5sX4Ky7mEiRLJXSo8iirTWHxJ2vEagMW4CCCvUEtNzjbPckHF5KZyb6ylbF6mrBMX5P1Set3PeyaIZydw/s1600/June+2010+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3HhcVNkA1oq_i-Jk_GlX_QiXKo6Tz5uwefsGpLvN-Q47ktfsOKhZonwwXrm5sX4Ky7mEiRLJXSo8iirTWHxJ2vEagMW4CCCvUEtNzjbPckHF5KZyb6ylbF6mrBMX5P1Set3PeyaIZydw/s320/June+2010+004.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He just Devours books!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sometimes he DOES go to sleep...just not very often...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8OXp-cuUj_PQ1pk1KIlZKD0BT4cpNG2eEzEml_Axwqk_hHpGHtmYlMUp4pfD27Rb8oxCYG_GBqjvEqd48EhkzM3luePXPulnRSgsJVwT11qV7EK8f0hk1C14TROoyYHNRtr2ekJTUxE0/s1600/VBS+St+Ignatius+021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hw="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8OXp-cuUj_PQ1pk1KIlZKD0BT4cpNG2eEzEml_Axwqk_hHpGHtmYlMUp4pfD27Rb8oxCYG_GBqjvEqd48EhkzM3luePXPulnRSgsJVwT11qV7EK8f0hk1C14TROoyYHNRtr2ekJTUxE0/s320/VBS+St+Ignatius+021.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Chewba really liked his babysitter at VBS this year!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Can you believe he will be EIGHT months old next week???</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pax Christi to you all!</div>Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505258364895249347noreply@blogger.com0