Posted in Gabrielle, Not Much of Anything on Sep 19th, 2005 2 Comments »
I humbly apologize for this, but I have turned on the word verification. I was loathe to do such a thing and I was holding out against it, but then I realized that Raquel goes through and deletes all the spam usually before I see it. I hadn’t thought to turn on the word verification [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Sep 17th, 2005 1 Comment »
So I decided to come downstairs and check my e-mail before I went to bed. It’s late, the children are asleep, and all is serene as I sit by the computer screen. Until Peter starts coughing. And keeps coughing. And whooping. And coughing. He’s not really awake but he’s moving around, sitting up. I know [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Thoughts About Heaven on Sep 17th, 2005 No Comments »
My sister Adiel has been sending out e-mails every now and then to our family just talking about things she’s been thinking about. She calls them her “Quotes and Thoughts” e-mails. I was re-reading some of them recently and I came upon the one she wrote for July 19th. It made me cry again so [...]
Posted in Raquel, Real Life Quotes on Sep 17th, 2005 No Comments »
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“Moriah had yarn stuffed down the front of her pants today.”
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“That’s because she was being a super-hero.”
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Sometimes I just don’t want to know.
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Sep 16th, 2005 No Comments »
Every now and then I will be moving through my life and part of my mind says, “Hey, this would make a good blog post.” For instance this morning I was on the phone with my father. I thought this would be a good time to do something I had been planning to do that [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles on Sep 15th, 2005 4 Comments »
We recently got another fix of Babylon 5 from our supplier and immediately set to watching them. We are at the beginning of season four and things have gotten wonderfully tense. There are many themes in Babylon 5 that are profound and it is a worthwhile thing to analyze the episodes and the running themes [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles on Sep 14th, 2005 5 Comments »
I was helping Arianna work on her penmanship today while Seth worked at the table mocking me. See, I have horrible, horrible, handwriting and here I was teaching someone else how to write. He was amused. I said that we all want better for our children and it is my hope that my children will [...]
Posted in Quotes, Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Sep 13th, 2005 2 Comments »
“…Harry was in a mood to deeply appreciate a vote of confidence from somebody who was not wearing radishes in their ears. ” Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix
Sometimes it seems that the people who agree with me are, after all, just the people with radishes in their ears. That I’ll never [...]
Posted in Books, Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Sep 13th, 2005 3 Comments »
I just read The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley. For some reason I felt a great kinship with the main character. Yes, toward the end there are some annoying bits mostly in how the romantic interest is handled. No, the ending is quite as satisfying as the rest of the book. But overall [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles on Sep 12th, 2005 No Comments »
Someone recently asked me a Question I had not been asked before. It is strange because it seems to me to be a rather central question. He asked, “Why do you want to do what you want to do?” I have never been asked that question before. I’ve been asked a multitude of questions about [...]