Posted in Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles on Oct 29th, 2009 3 Comments »
I’ve been listening to lies this week. I listened even though I knew they were lies. And then I kept being surprised when I felt upset about it.
So, Tuesday I went out shopping. It’s my official errand day where I run around like a crazy person doing grocery shopping for myself and some for Crystal. [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on Oct 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
This title of this post isn’t really true, but I’m really not sure I can make it sound interesting either. I’m posting because I have remembered why we have a category called ‘Life, Children and Dishes’, and why that category has more posts in it than any other category on our blog. Aside from [...]
Posted in Around Town, Friends & Family, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, On Being Single, Raquel on Oct 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
Yesterday was a crazy day. Due to circumstances beyond our control, which partly just means it didn’t get realized until too late, Go Play Peoria and the Reformation Day Faire were on the same day. So naturally we proceeded to devolop a complicated plan involving two major events, two vehicles, and nine [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts About Heaven on Oct 19th, 2009 7 Comments »
It’s always a frightening thing to reread a book you haven’t read for a while. We change so much sometimes in just a few years that a book that was once the beginning and end of catharsis for our emotional state is just whiny and dumb. The character who’d once stood on the pedestal of [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Beauty on Oct 14th, 2009 1 Comment »
This past Sunday an old man stood in the pulpit of Providence Church and talked to us about Jesus. He walked with a cane and with great care, but he spoke from the pulpit with power and authority. He spoke about his Lord. Sometimes I didn’t quite know where he was coming from or where [...]
Posted in Around Town, For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Oct 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
I like to think that I am fundamentally insane; that this almost-mannered, nearly-rational persona is just a thin facade and that in reality I am truly a crazy, wild person. I have no idea if this is true so sometimes I have to do bizarre things to lie to myself- I mean, reassure myself that [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, On Being Single, Raquel on Oct 12th, 2009 8 Comments »
On some reflection, I may have lied several times yesterday. Several people asked me yesterday how I was and my reply was either, “Tired,” or “I’m okay, but tired”. The tired part was really true, but I’m starting to think that maybe I’m not okay.
I keep thinking I must surely be okay [...]
Posted in Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Heaven on Oct 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
This past Sunday was Life Chain Sunday, a day people from all over the country stand in silent protest of abortion. When I was growing up we participated each year. I remember being incredibly bored as a child and not really understanding what was going on. At some point it fell off our radar [...]
Posted in I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Projects, Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Oct 8th, 2009 No Comments »
If you take the definition of humility as looking at yourself honestly (neither more highly or lowly than you ought to), this post is not nearly as arrogant as it might sound. I just thought I’d clear that up at the beginning.
I realized today that I am an intelligent person. Hey, stop laughing. Yes, you, [...]