Okay, I shouldn’t say that life here is strange because that would be repetitive and redundant. Life here has been stranger than usual. There’s a new baby in the house and Samuel has whooping cough. The combination here is dangerous. If Justice gets whooping cough it could kill him. So Justice is being secluded up [...]
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…that maple syrup is the concentrated flavor of a tree?
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I should preface this by saying it hasn’t been a bad day. But why does everything that happens have to packed into fifteen minutes where I need to do everything at once? Theresa left to go to the library so we have some books and DVDs for the children while they’re quarantined. She’ll be gone [...]
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Take Gabrielle’s recent post, add a sermon on civil obedience, let it sit overnight, and voila! A ready made blog post. Add in Crystal’s thirty-six hour labour, a new baby, and now possible whooping cough going around, and we have a delayed blog post. But I’m finally writing it. There was something about the predicted [...]
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I was reading an article about a coming of age tradition that a family has started for their sons. They have a big feast with fireworks and then the father presents his son with a sword. The sword is usually symbolic of what the father wants his son to become. The son the article was [...]
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Posted in Gabrielle on Aug 25th, 2005 2 Comments »
Howdy, folks. Recently there has been a comment conversation that got me a little hot around the collar due to the lack of courtesy I perceived in the commenter. As co-moderator of this blog I thought this would be a good time to lay some ground rules as to what is polite and acceptable in [...]
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1. Do a Google search for eggplant parmesan. Click on the first recipe you see, think “Oh, that doesn’t look to hard.” and go in the kitchen to wing it. 2. Decide to start slicing zucchini even though there’s plenty of time before supper. Bread and fry it, pausing occasionally to shoo children out of [...]
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