Posted in Children, Family, Life, Parenting, Saints on Sep 23rd, 2008
When we visited Dormition Monastery last month, I had the extreme privilege of making confession with Father Roman Braga. I had seen the documentary on his time in the Pitesti prison and was humbled to be in the presence of such a godly man.
He asked me several questions and ended our confession time by saying,
Love [...]
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Posted in Family, Prayer on Sep 17th, 2008
As many of you know, my Uncle Bob has been in the hospital for several weeks now. He has emphysema and is very ill. He is now in ICU. Today the doctors have a procedure to do that will hopefully prolong his life and give him a fighting chance. But they aren’t sure if he [...]
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My Uncle Bob is doing a little bit better! He is still in ICU, but he is breathing much better and more aware than he was a few days ago. Thank you for your prayers.
My mom has already had a bone scan, chest xray and CAT scan. The technician who did the bone scan told [...]
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Posted in Family, Prayer on Sep 10th, 2008
My mother’s brother, Bob, has just been moved to ICU. He has emphyzema and got a cold several weeks ago. The cold made him so ill that he was placed in the hospital, where it was touch and go for a while. He still has pneumonia and also an bacterial infection in his lungs. The [...]
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Posted in Children, Family, Websites on Sep 9th, 2008
My mother bought me a Brian Andreas print just after my son was born, and I found one (above) for my husband’s first father’s day. Take a minute to browse through the storypeople site; you can even send ecards.
Thanks to Simply Victoria, who posted about this site on her blog.
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Posted in Family on Sep 6th, 2008
Isn’t she lovely?
Heavenly Father, physician of our souls and bodies, Who have sent Your only-begotten Son and our Lord Jesus Christ to heal every sickness and infirmity, visit and heal also Your servant Dorothy from all physical and spiritual ailments through the grace of Your Christ. Grant her patience in this sickness, strength of body [...]
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Posted in Family, meme on Sep 6th, 2008
I walked around a store for an hour, sang in the car and tried to not think about anything. Taking deep breaths, praying or thinking too much all make me cry. Please pray for my mother.
Found on “in the process of weeding out”
Two word survey, no more, no less…
1. Where is your cell phone? ……………… [...]
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Posted in Family, Prayer on Sep 6th, 2008
We just found out that my mother has a tumor in her hip.
My mom, Dorothy, has been having severe pain in her hip for several months now. Once, the pain was so debilitating that my father had to rush her to the emergency room. My mother is a very strong woman; she has three older [...]
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We recently acquired a few small icons for the kids’ room. I decided that I wanted to have a little icon corner to put them in. Here is how I made the little display case:
I took the bottom part of a shoe box and cut it into two sections: one about 2/3 of the box [...]
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Posted in Children, Family, meme on Sep 2nd, 2008
I’m a little late, but I thought this looked like fun (found at Charming the Birds from the Trees).
How long were your labors?
I was induced with both of my kids; once due to preeclampsia and the other because she was past due and I had been having consistent/semi-consistent contractions for a week straight. With my [...]
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