Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle on May 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Sometimes I think Sundays are the hardest day of the week. It is the day set aside for worship and rest, but both of those are difficult to accomplish when one lives in a household with small children. There is always someone wiggling and giggling during worship that you have to deal with and when [...]
Posted in Around Town, Gabrielle on May 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
Yesterday Raquel and I Went Out. This is a momentous enough occasion to deserve capital letters.
First we met at Seth’s work for some nifty van switching. Then we stopped at Naturally Yours to buy enough water to tide the Ben-Ezra family over until I can get out today. And then the Outing truly started.
We ate [...]
Posted in Quotes, Raquel, Thoughts About Beauty on May 7th, 2007 No Comments »
 ”There are times when it is nourishing to scrub a tub until it sparkles or wax and polish the floors until the smell of wax takes over. Polishing your brass scale until it comes up to a pale yellow shine or caring for your plants or washing a lovely piece of crystal can be a [...]
Posted in Not Much of Anything, Raquel on May 5th, 2007 2 Comments »
For those who are interested, James and Theresa (and Margary) got back safely this evening. Not only did I survive, but so did all the children. Perhaps later I’ll write a longer post about the past three days. Suffice to say we had a token ‘incident’ where the filter in the turtle tank decided to [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on May 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
I hear lots of talk about priorities, how they should be organized, what should be first second last, why we have priorities anyway. One thing people agree on is that one’s priorities change as one gets older. I wholeheartedly agree with that.
In times past I had one set of priorities. I would rush through my [...]
Posted in Dinner at Lansberry's, Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on May 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
I haven’t written a Dinner at Lansberry post in a while. I guess I just got kinda tired of writing them. When I plan to write a blog post about an event when I’m at the event it’s like I’m not really there. I’m just watching, taking notes in my head. Or I’m not taking [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on May 3rd, 2007 2 Comments »
 Early this morning James and Theresa (and Margary) left for parts east and they won’t be back until Saturday evening. So I can have all my wild friends over and make popcorn and put in blue light bulbs… Um, yeah.
Seriously, I think the children will actually do fine (which translates into me not tearing my [...]