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29 Apr 2006 by

Mercury Cougar SOLDYou have been with me for many years. You have seen me through the ups and downs – from heartbreak to blissful love; from fulfilling jobs to unemployment; from the wide open roads of the midwest to the busy streets of Austin. You have met my traveling needs from bachelorhood to married with children. You may never again see two carseats in your limited rear seats, but I thank you for your endurance. May the lanes be wide and spacious under the care of your new owner.

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Weekend of Italian Feasts!

29 Apr 2006 by

This weekend we celebrate two beautiful, holy, and courageous Italian women in the Church!  Today is the feast of St. Catherine of Siena.  She happens to be my patron saint.  Some people claim that I have an affinity of knowing a lot about the Catholic church and I’m not at all afraid to share it.  If that in fact is true, I attribute it of course to God through the intercession of my dear St. Catherine!

Yesterday we celebrated St. Gianna Beretta Molla’s feast day!  This is the second year we celebrate St. Gianna being raised to the altar.  She was canonized May 16, 2004 by Pope John Paul II.  Her life and love is an inspiration to all mothers.  It takes great hope and courage to do God’s will–to suffer and give your life for someone, even your own child.  St. Gianna gave her life so that her unborn daughter might live. To read her story only makes more clear how selfish our society has become to permit a mother to kill her unborn child.  May we all have the humility and grace to submit to our Father’s will. 

Prayer of St. Gianna

Jesus, I promise You to submit myself to all that You permit to befall me,
make me only know Your will.
My most sweet Jesus, infinitely merciful God, most tender Father of souls,
and in a particular way of the most weak, most miserable, most infirm
which You carry with special tenderness between Your divine arms,
I come to You to ask You, through the love and merits of Your Sacred Heart,
the grace to comprehend and to do always Your holy will,
the grace to confide in You,
the grace to rest securely through time and eternity in Your loving divine arms.

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“Go Aggies “?

26 Apr 2006 by

Alright.  To all our Aggie readers…I don’t know when you did it, but undo it ASAP!

When Therese and I have been playing in the last few weeks, I’ve noticed something VERY peculiar.  At one point I’ll be cheering our little flower on when all of a sudden she says, “Go Texas.”  Excellent! But THEN, she’s start saying, “Go Aggies!” When I say, “no, no, no. Go Texas!”  She replies in very playful opposition, “Go Aggies! Go Aggies! Go Aggies!” 

 I know Alexis and the Devman will be quite tickled over that.  However, as a Longhorn-Boilermaker family, we can have no infiltration of rival schools.  So, whoever did this, will you kindly return my child to the loveable Longhorn fan! :)  

 

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The –?– “2′s”

21 Apr 2006 by

I hesitate to call the “2′s” terrible because there are some good moments. However, they are quite challenging indeed at times. Other times they are down right scarey…like today.

I’ve learned the hard way again that when something says “keep out of reach of children,” that you should ACTUALLY keep it out of the reach of your kids. The challenging part is realizing when it suddenly is within their reach. I found Therese in her room today eating Desitin (diaper rash cream). The tube was about 1/3 of the way gone. There was white cream on her lips and the room smelled very Desitin-y. I called Poison Control, and thankfully there is no harm done.

I should have taken the cue as earlier today Therese had stealthily gone to the kitchen and managed to get her jar of snacks. There were 5 empty boxes of raisen and all her Teddy Graham arranged neatly in a pile. She very good at sorting. They way she goes for the sweets and the tubes of Desitin, you would think we don’t feed her. We do…I promise!

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Holy Friends for Holy Week!

12 Apr 2006 by

Adam, being the good spiritual leader of our family, insisted that I make it to confession before the Triduum begins tomorrow.  Although I had a playdate planned with some friends, I emailed my friends and told them I’m going to reconcilation.   Of course my first thoughts were, “Are we all going to fit in the confessional?  What if Therese starts screaming?  What am I going to tell the priest?!”  Being a season of pentance, I decided there was much greater grace to be had by totting my two kids downtown to the Cathedral for confession!

Now, most people’s friends would call you up and say, “Are you nuts?! Can’t you wait until your husband can go with you or watch the kids?  Get a baby sitter!”  But not my friends!!  No ma’am.  My friend Misty calls up and says, “Hey, I got your email about confession.  Can I go with you and we watch each others kids while in confession?”  Did I ever jump at that!  Now that’s friendship! 

I got there first.  As I was walking in, I got some of those, “is she nuts?” stares.  But boy did my Guardian Angels come through.  I was first in line on the side with the priest that does ‘long’ confessions.  (There were ten people for the ‘fast’ side.) Then Misty walks in. The one guy behind me let her go ahead after I told him what we were doing.  (Thanks again Guardian Angel–and God Bless him!)  Misty then tells me that two of our other friends who were going to the park decided to come to confession as well with their kids!

Thank you Lord for the gift of reconcilation and friends who will share that sacred time with you!  God bless these beautiful women and lead us all to greater holiness in our vocation as wives and mothers!

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Holy Week

11 Apr 2006 by

As our priest said last Sunday, this week is filled with more sacred time than any other week in the year!  More than sacred objects, sacred time is a vessel of abundant grace.  So let us take advantage of the grace to be had at the various Masses and services this week. 

We are still debating whether to take the kids to Holy Thursday and Good Friday Mass.  Therese will likely not understand what is going on, but then again it would be a good opportunity to teach her.  We aren’t even entertaining going to Easter Vigil although it is my favorite mass of the whole year.  My two favorite parts are watching the baptisms and spreading the light at the beginning of mass. 

So I have a prayer request for all our readers this year.  Please remember in your prayers all the candidates and catechumens who will be entering into the fullness of the Church!  This is an exciting time for them.  I would especially like for you to pray for Kimberly Francis.  She is a dear friend of mine from my college days that I met through a service fraternity.  She has always had the heart of a Christian in her selflessness and service towards others.  She is taking the name of St. Therese as her confirmation name!  St. Therese, pray for us!

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Health update

05 Apr 2006 by

It’s been a while since we’ve posted.  We have been busier than usual, but we’ve also been sicker than usual.  Last week I was hit with a cold.  Then Therese got a stomach bug on Tuesday that re-presented itself on Wednesday night.  She was kind enough to share it with me.  And I was down for the count on Thursday. 

Adam has been weeping with poison ivy that he contracted when he and our friend Brian went bike riding two Saturdays ago.  Just another indication that my husband is not an outdoors kind of guy.  It’s also a test of that whole, “in sickness and in health.”  If you’ve never had or seen poison ivy, let me tell you, it sure is an eye sore.  Then out of blue Adam went down on Saturday night with the stomach yuckies. 

Little Fulton was spared the stomach bug, but got my congestion and cough.  It’s so mild.  He seems to be on the mend already. 

I went in for my six month follow-up ultrasound of the fibroid in my breast.  Thankfully it hasn’t grown and it’s only about 4mm large.  The sonographer said that I will not likely have to go in again until I’m 40. 

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