Tag: <span>celebration</span>

A report card: Third week of first grade, first full week of preschool.  19/20 on the spelling test.  Self-portrait created with some semi-identifable body parts.  Yoga class attended (headstand progress…

Five Minute Fridays

Dear Big Friend, Little Friend and I will dash to the store in a few minutes in search of the perfect present for you.  Little Friend is admanant about the…

Thoughts and Musings

“And one does one do on the Fourteenth of July?  Does one celebrate Bastille Day?”  These are the opening lines from my favorite David Sedaris essay, “Jesus Shaves.”  As a…

Thoughts and Musings

Christ of the cross and of the empty tomb, strengthen us to bear the burdens of the day, to seek you amid the hurts and questions, and to trust you…

Thoughts and Musings

“Hoppy Birfdy, EB.  Hoppy Birfdy.  Hoppy–” It sounded like a Gregorian monk’s chant coming through the monitor this morning.  Actually, it sounded like the Gregorian monk’s chant who got sent…

Thoughts and Musings

If 2010 was the year of the bull, then allow me to dub 2011 the year of the cup.  Back pedal.  2010 wasn’t technically the year of the bull in…

Thoughts and Musings