Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Dec 21st, 2005 1 Comment »
Last night I was sitting in the kitchen peeling potatoes when Crystal said, “There’s a knot in my intestine!” No, this isn’t a medical condition you should be worried about. We were making sausage. Every Christmas Eve my family eats a traditional Swedish meal. My mother’s side of the family is Swedish. The main dish [...]
Posted in Gabrielle on Dec 20th, 2005 No Comments »
O King of the Gentiles and their Desired One, the Cornerstone that makes both one: Come, And deliver man, whom you formed out of the dust of the earth. Amen. Jesus came to the World. He did not come to a small group of people. He came for the Gentiles. I am not completely a [...]
Posted in Poems and Stories, Raquel on Dec 20th, 2005 2 Comments »
What can I say to one who knows
better than I how sadness goes?
I have for you no words of cheer
but those you’ve giv’n for me to hear.
Please don’t think my silence cold.
I feel more than words can hold.
I’ve wept for you through long [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Dec 20th, 2005 No Comments »
Peter and I set out to make some brownies this afternoon. (Theresa ground wheat yesterday and today, so we currently have plenty of flour.) Before long we’d mixed them up and poured them in the pan and a horde of children descended to lick out the bowl. The brownies were in the oven so quickly [...]
Posted in Gabrielle on Dec 19th, 2005 No Comments »
Tonight was kind of weird. I started dinner with the kids without Seth and Crystal because life happened to us. When Seth and Crystal got home I lit the fifth candle and the darkness took a step back. O Dawn of the East, brightness of light eternal, and Sun of Justice: Come, and enlighten those [...]
Posted in Gabrielle on Dec 18th, 2005 No Comments »
“O Key of David, and scepter of the House of Israel, who opens and no man shuts, who shuts and no man opens: Come, and bring forth the captive from his prison, he who sits in darkness and in the shadow of death. Amen. Tonight Arianna lit the fourth candle. Jesus has come to open [...]
Posted in Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Dec 17th, 2005 No Comments »
There’s a blog post that’s been sitting in my head for weeks now. I tried writing it once but I couldn’t figure out how to express all of it without writing pages and pages of explanation and connections to other thoughts. In this post I’m just going to try to communicate the core idea. If [...]
Posted in Gabrielle on Dec 17th, 2005 1 Comment »
Last night was Seth’s work’s Christmas party and so we missed a day. Tonight we celebrated the third day of our Chanukah. O Root of Jesse, that stands for an ensign of the people, before whom the kings keep silence and unto whom the Gentiles shall make supplication: Come, to deliver us and tarry not. [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Dec 16th, 2005 1 Comment »
Well, I just rigged an iron out of boiling water, a spray bottle and a metal bowl. By all rights this shouldn’t have worked. I finished a project I’ve been working on for the last couple of days and it needed to be ironed before it would be completely done. I won’t tell you what [...]
Posted in Gabrielle on Dec 15th, 2005 No Comments »
My brother Seth is very strange. I know I have mentioned this before. His wife Crystal is equally strange though in a different way. As Seth and Crystal have gotten older their idea of what a celebration looks like has changed and grown. Add in the fact that we Ben-Ezras have a hefty dose of [...]