Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Apr 28th, 2009 3 Comments »
I’m scheduled to have surgery in about two weeks. There’s about a fifty percent chance that the selenium I’m taking will shrink the cyst before then, and I won’t need surgery. In that case I finally close that chapter of my life (except for lingering bills and paperwork) and move my attention to hoping [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Heaven on Apr 28th, 2009 No Comments »
(Written last night)
So here I am. My Internet is down and keeps giving me fits. I’m trying trying trying to fix it so that I can do, I don’t know, something. Something interesting for about 30 minutes and then I can go to sleep. I’m tired, see. A deep, weary sort of tired. I’ve got [...]
Posted in For Amusement Purposes Only, Not Much of Anything, Raquel on Apr 27th, 2009 No Comments »
A -B -Cs
You’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with the ABC’s of YOU. At the end, choose 26 people to be tagged. You have to tag me so really you just need 25 more people. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you – but not [...]
Posted in All About Words, For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Apr 27th, 2009 2 Comments »
I was very excited earlier today. My sister had sent me a picture that sparked a story thought in my head. I got the first few sentences and had a beginning so I quickly sat down and started typing it out. Yes, yes, I thought, And where does it go from there? Ah, I answered [...]
Posted in All About Words, Life, Children and Dishes, Poems and Stories, Raquel, Thoughts About Heaven on Apr 26th, 2009 3 Comments »
This isn’t really the traditional baptismal blessing, but bits of this poem started coming during Hope’s baptism, and I don’t know why, but I think it’s for her.
Hope
It’s the tiny dying scream
of a heart that’s going down
It’s the never quite content
of a perfect day on earth
It’s the pain of Heaven’s call
when you’re trapped down [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes on Apr 26th, 2009 No Comments »
This is a tag I filled out on Facebook last Thursday, and since I was informed that I should ‘multi-task’ and post such things on my blog too, here are the 100 things that really, no one is likely to want to know about me, but I answered anyway. Enjoy!
I refuse to inflict [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Reviews on Apr 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Warning: For those of you who are in the midst of watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and are pre season 5 there are some serious spoilers in this post. You have been warned. Please don’t hate me if your eyes accidentally slide over this warning and proceed onto the post which, as I’ve just said, [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts About Heaven on Apr 20th, 2009 1 Comment »
Friday was a perfect day. The children and I spent most of it at friend’s house out in the sun. The sky was the shade of blue poets write about and the weather was like all the best days of spring come at once. We were with people who had asked us over so that [...]
Posted in All About Words, Quotes, Rants & Rambles, Raquel, Thoughts on Being Womanly on Apr 17th, 2009 5 Comments »
“The Valkyries were the shield maidens who kept the halls of heaven. Odin used women warriors as his honor guard because if he’d used men, they might have been worshiped for their own strength and skill and cunning. He could glorify himself through women warriors because he was the source of their strength and [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Projects on Apr 16th, 2009 1 Comment »
I’d recently taken up the task of teaching Noah and Justice their letters, colors, numbers and parts of their bodies. We made up flashcards and we got into a routine. Then I decided that it would be a lot of fun to teach a short course on the basics of how a human body works. [...]