By the time the fourth child passes milestones, they often slip past without much fanfare. Not that they don’t get noticed at all, but it is a little more muted. Still, in the first nine days of Advent it’s been fun to watch Michael really connect with this season for the first time. I realized…
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In Which Going to Church With Kids Completes My Entire 7QT Post
My mother told me once, “There were a lot of Masses when you girls were little that we didn’t get much out of.” This week was one of those for me. To wit: 1: Processional Cross A Because I walk with the toddler, I’m always the last one into church. I shepherd Michael through his…
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Mostly Michael (a 7QT post)
___1___ It seems to be one of those universal truths of parenthood that when you reach a frustration point sufficient that you break down, everything automatically gets better afterward. Maybe it’s because of hormone shifts. Or maybe it’s because when you break down in the presence of your kids, it puts the fear of God…
Read MoreMesses, Marriage and Speech Therapy (a 7QT post)
___1___ I am beginning to accept an incontrovertible truth: if there is a mess to be made, Michael will make it. Wednesday morning, he turned over a cooler half full of water and ice, which we’d been too busy to empty after taking snacks to baseball Tuesday night (that was the end of a marathon…
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___1___ I’ve been so busy lately, I just now realized I never shared this! We are running a giveaway of This Little Light of Mine on Goodreads. Six copies available, to be “drawn” by Goodreads on May 1st. Click on over and sign up! ___2___ I think every woman–probably everyone–is well aware that the reproductive…
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There are many mysteries in the world. Like my computer, which for some reason decided recently to require Control-Alt-Delete before giving me my login screen, after eighteen months of bringing it up automatically. The fact that Java has to be given permission every single morning to “make changes to my computer” since I downloaded an…
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Kathleen M. Basi 