Memo (please file under “guardian angel training”)

Date: January 25, 2009
From: Guardian Angel Supervisor
To: X Family Guardian Angels
Subject: Toddler sleep patterns
Since the mother in question has been feeling a little superior over the fact that her children still take naps at six and four years old, respectively, while her friends’ children all quit taking naps by two or three, it has been [...]

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Speaker Pelosi Likes Leather

Apparently, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi enjoys the taste of shoe leather.  First, she insisted that she knew more about Catholic theology than the Catholic Church, and continued to insist (loudly and publicly) on her allegedly Catholic wisdom after the bishops corrected her grossly flawed “understanding” of abortion in Catholic thought for the last two thousand [...]

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7 Quick Takes

Jennifer over at Conversion Diary started this thing where she does a “7 quick takes Friday.”   Well, I didn’t make Friday.  Oh, well.  But I had such a smattering of short comments today that I thought it was just the idea I needed.

1.  During the March for Life, we passed the usual display of graphic abortion [...]

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36th Annual March for Life

Amazingly, our local paper actually covered the March for Life this year.  I was fairly surprised; usually they avoid any mention of the fact that more than 100,000 people show up for this thing every January.  I suspect it was mostly because they already had a  reporter there or something, but at least it was better than [...]

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The Inauguration

In spite of having put in more than a few hours working against the election of Barack Obama, we watched the inauguration tonight, pausing frequently to discuss things that were said (dvr’s are a great thing) with our older children, aged 6 1/2 and five.  (The two-year-old was not appreciating the historical value of a peaceful [...]

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The Night Before the Inauguration

The election is over, the decision (for various lousy reasons, including, “I want to be part of history and help elect the first black president!”) was made, and, tomorrow, Barack Obama will be my president.
To say that I am less than thrilled is an understatement.
A liberal writer on the editorial page enthused that only the most hard-bitten [...]

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250 words?!?

Occasionally I read the updates WordPress puts out.  They do a nice job, I’m very thankful for their site, and I like to know what’s going on, especially when the headline has anything to do with “change,” and particularly when said change involves the administrative interface.
One of the interesting things is that someone in the comments [...]

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Sneers and jealousy

Not nice things, certainly.  Even uglier when thrown around in the “mommy wars.”  But I was reading my paper in between homeschooling lessons (“Let mommy finish the paper, honey, and we’ll play a game.  Yes, the whole paper.  No, I’m not done yet.  Yes, I’m sure you won’t collapse of boredom without me for five minutes.  [...]

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The Political Housewyf’s Chinese Beef

In the middle of the chaos of reorganizing the library (formerly known as the formal dining room (which I have no need of, since the view from the table in the kitchen is much, much nicer, and what I really needed a room for was our gigantic book and fragile international souvenir collections)), trying to [...]

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New Year’s Housecleaning

To judge from the magazine covers, I’m not alone in suddenly going into a cleaning frenzy after New Year’s.
I love everything that goes with Christmas.  We do lots of lights, wreaths on the windows outside, greens with faux sugared fruit and lights inside, a sprawling Nativity set, at least two trees (one in a safe [...]

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