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Help save a child with HIV and Hep-C: help her family adopt her!
http://www.ironiccatholic.com/2012/04/great-big-giveaway-for-new-life-for.html Please click on the above link to read an incredible story about a family trying to adopt a little girl who is in dire need of medical care. Her parents have insurance to cover everything once she’s adopted, but need help coming up with $15,500 in the next two months. The fundraiser at this link has already raised half of the necessary amount! Give a little, give a lot, but don’t forget to enter the giveaways. Even $1 gets you in, and you get to feel...
read moreSo much tithing angst!
It’s that time of year again when we feel anxiety over our taxes, our tithing, and whether or not we should ever pay more than interest on our $41,000 in student loans. I read an interesting post here, where the writer was just asking about the morality of giving when one is in debt. I’ve often thought it’s odd that some of my friends who owe their friends and family heaps and heaps of money, and rely on others for regular handouts, tithe when they do get a paycheck. I’ve been in the position to have someone who has...
read more7 Quick Takes
1. I took Wolfie to see a local children’s production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He sat, expressionless for 45 minutes, spent 15 minutes asking if it was time to go home, and when it ended, immediately asked if we could “go again next time.” Loved the show, loved skipping school and work to take him, love how he is making Fierce wear a blanket “coat” around the house today. 2. Zoe is getting to that point where she is not sleeping through the night anymore because she is the size of a truck...
read moreThere’s a Child Running Around My Yard, Screaming
The best purchase we ever made was the chickens. Since their oddball arrival last April (Happy Birthday on the 18th!), they have offered Wolfie hours upon hours of entertainment. It’s like having a babysitter, who’s free and happens to love getting in nature time, regardless of the weather. I just went outside to find out what all that commotion was. Wolfie had no explanation, but there were feathers everywhere. I would say he did something, but the chickens (or as we call them, the ladies) were still following him around with love...
read moreSave Money on Hand Soap
We used to go through about 10 oz. of handsoap a week, if we’re using the regular, non-foaming kind. I buy the giant 64 oz. bottles of it and refill our dispensers. So, ignoring our initial cost of 2 bottles on sale for $1 each, and knowing that the giant bottle costs me $4 at Walgreens when they have their BOGO sale, we were spending $.0625 per ounce, or about 62 cents a week on handsoap, or $32.50 a year on handsoap. So really, a tolerable amount to spend. BUT, we bought a bottle of foaming soap for the bathroom because Wolfie’s...
read moreLent + Nostalgia= Abnormally Satisfying Easter
Last year I got home from Easter dinner and was devastated. It had been one of those dreadful family parties where I drifted through, feeling ignored by everybody. This year: no worries. I had a good time and enjoyed chatting with people. A few things were different. 1.) I have a newborn. That makes me a rock star. 2.) I didn’t try too hard with the one cousin to whom I wish I could be close, but who won’t let me in. 3.) I had a good Lent and a great Easter Vigil Mass. Alright, just got distracted from writing because I was staring...
read moreShunning
I have a cousin who has left the Catholic priesthood and gotten married civilly, has two children, and works as a civil servant. He refuses to have anything to do with my family because some people expressed concern that he should at least get laisized. He sent my sister a horrible email, instructing her to never contact him under any circumstances. This was after she responded in a friendly way to what appears to have been an inadvertent invite to a social networking site. My sister, who was the closest to him, and had hoped that he had...
read moreWho’s the Victim Here?
To be clear, I think it’s marvelous that people, even feminist-types, are talking about female fertility and “waiting too long.” It seems that it’s not so politically incorrect to mention that fertility wanes and not everybody can get pregnant with fertility treatments. That’s good in that maybe some younger women will feel more comfortable choosing family while they’re fertile and focusing on career later. But, can I just bring up the fact that as devastating as a series of IVF miscarriages and non-starts...
read moreHow Buying a Minivan is Like Dating
My mother-in-law loves this. After five years of her telling me how great her minivan is, and me telling her that I would rather die than drive a van, and that a little piece of my soul would die every time I turned the ignition (despite knowing that I wanted a large family), I have decided to get a minivan. Just in time for my 10 year high school reunion! So, I started looking casually online. Zoe is four-months-old, and I’m 28-years-old. If I want six kids, I need to be open to having them a lot closer than 3.5 years apart from here...
read moreBi-polar Parenting
Wolfie has turned another corner, and I can now bear to be in the same room as him for more than ten minutes. We’re back to sweetness, silliness, and a beautiful lack of raging tantrums. It seems like he comes into a good space just as I’m about to put him up for adoption. I feel bad when I hear other mothers exult in the beauties of motherhood, and discuss the discouragements as though they’re easy to handle. My discouragements don’t feel so easy to handle. I just want to throw the towel in and go pack my bags...
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