I got a call at work Thursday afternoon from a local TV station doing a segment about how mom bloggers will effect the presidential election. They were looking for someone from MinnMoms.com to speak on the topic. I consulted with my boss about whom we should send. He pulled me into the editor’s office and ambushed me. “You’re going to do it,” he said. The two of them came up with more reasons why I should than I came up with reasons why I shouldn’t. I took until the next morning to get a hold of the producer who...
Recent Catholic Mass changes are stupid
When I told Mark at church this morning that I was going to write a post about the new wording for the English Catholic Mass, he asked if I was going to write about how I can’t remember the changes and am always saying the wrong thing. I said,...
Review of “Smitten”: Four (very similar) stories in one
After a good start on my reading goal, I read only one book in the past two months. Or was it four? “Smitten” is a book by four Christian fiction authors (Colleen Coble, Kristin Billerbeck, Diann Hunt and Denise Hunter) that makes sense as a whole but each story can...
Veggies are (becoming) this girl’s best friend
I have been (mostly) gluten-free for about a month now. It has not been as hard as I expected it to be. I have found some gluten-free replacements for my favorite gluten-based foods that are rather good. And some that really are not. I’ve also found plenty of other...
Connor quotes
Connor is always saying things that crack me up. Many of them go unrecorded but here are some that made it to Twitter or Facebook this year. Some of them seemed funnier at the time but I’ll include them anyway. Mark and I and his grandparents were talking about...
Health goal: Move from “not sick” to “healthy”
Though my new journey to health began when I thought wheat was causing my severe itching, working with my health coach has already helped me realize there is a lot more I’d like to change about my health. I’m not sick, per se, and I know all western-medicine doctors would...
Meet me on Monday
I have another health journey post coming but in the mean time, I just discovered this weekly blog link-up called “Meet Me on Monday.” I LOVE answering random questions about myself so I couldn’t help but play along. I hope you do too, either in the comments or on...
