Posted in Gabrielle on Aug 30th, 2005 1 Comment »
The last post I wrote seemed sort of tired and blah. That could be because I’m feeling very tired and blah. So in the interest of me (which should be the focus of everything) I will post a poem I found somewhere. I really liked it and it made me feel not quite so tired [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles on Aug 30th, 2005 2 Comments »
(I read this after I wrote it and it didn’t really come out how I wanted. I wonder if it is more honest than what I had in mind. “Questions.” “I don’t have answers.”) Last night I rewatched The Last Samurai and I finished the last Louis L’Amour book about the Sacketts I have in [...]
Posted in Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Aug 29th, 2005 4 Comments »
I would have told myself not to be nervous, but that would have defeated the purpose. It just would have reminded me that I could be nervous. So I put it out of my mind. Almost. I didn’t know what questions they would ask, but I knew it would probably start with a general testimony. [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Aug 29th, 2005 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Not Much of Anything, Raquel on Aug 27th, 2005 1 Comment »
…that maple syrup is the concentrated flavor of a tree?
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Aug 26th, 2005 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Aug 26th, 2005 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles on Aug 26th, 2005 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Projects, Raquel on Aug 23rd, 2005 2 Comments »
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 [...]