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My dad is in Haiti this week, taking a group of Virginia Tech students to visit their twin parish, inspiring the Creole numbers for this post. Please keep them in your prayers!
Port-Au-Prince 2008
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I’ve been in a lot of pain this week. It is what it is. I’m still waiting on that divine revelation about why God wanted me to have a broken bladder. So far nada. I’ll tell y’all when I figure it out.
Twa
This is what I saw outside of the window the other day:
Really we see deer all the time on the hill behind our house. And all sorts of other things – birds, people walking their dogs, foxes, college kids smoking pot. But the point is, that’s a lot snow for March!
Kat
Your kind compliments inspired me to finish the project that’s been waiting in my knitting bag for months.
I am never knitting stripes again. So many ends to sew in! Also, these mittens are made of camel hair. While darling, they shed like crazy. Seriously. I think there will eventually be no yarn left. A full grown dog can’t shed this much hair.
Senk
I don’t know what I’m giving up for Lent yet.Or if I will give up something. My diet is already so restricted it wouldn’t be healthy for me to give anything else up. And I’ve already given up all the good stuff. I usually like to add one thing and give one thing up. Any ideas? What are you doing this year?
Sis
We need to do dishes like woah. And have no plans to. ‘Cause we still have a few clean forks left.
Set
I’m doing my first real deal anthropological interview tomorrow.
I hope to look as good as Emily Deschanel while doing it.
Those mittens are super cute! Love them! I got my first pair of mittens this year, other than when I was little. It was very exciting.
Thanks! Aren’t mittens great? So warm. I love the kind with the fingers and the part that flips over.
Wow, it looks like you really do still need mittens up there. Hahaha college kids smoking pot. I’m hearing the Discovery Channel host voice in my head, “And here we see the red-eyed Scholarless Cannibis in his native environment, hiding from the predator Responsibilitatia Parentus.”
How about you decide to do something instead of giving up something? Volunteer, go to daily Mass more often, pray the Rosary more often or donate more money during Lent.
Haha Responsibilitatia Parentus – that’s hilarious. Sometimes it reminds me of a kids book. Where you open the flap and say “what’s outside the window today?” A couple times we’ve seen people cross-country skiing by, and its just so surprising!
Maybe I should volunteer somewhere. Haven’t really since I left JVC
As for Lent, I think giving up is good but doing can be better. One time I gave up complaining for Lent. Another time I used it as an opportunity to work on not judging people. I’m thinking about recycling those ideas this year b/c I’m still so bad about it! I also know I’m going to do an act of service for my husband every day. Exercises in self-emptying, you know.
I’ve heard of doing this thing where you place a rubber band on your wrist and switch it every time you complain. I’ve wanted to try it. I think I’m a big whiner.
two years, i crocheted a square a day to be put together into a blanket donated to charity. it was a reminder every day of Jesus and made me mindful.
i also miss all the wildlife that we had when i lived in big sky country, especially the bunnies that lived around our house.
I am a fellow dish putter-offer. Do you also end up having to hand wash forks sometimes if you don’t run a load of dishes soon enough? Our dishwasher is portable, and a huge pain, so I hand wash almost as many dishes as I run through it.
Also, good luck with your interview! Channel your inner Emily/Temperance.
We don’t have a dishwasher. Except my husband. He’s the dishwasher.
another idea is saving your spare change during lent and donating it to charity or donating the money that you would normally spend at $tarbux or something.
I did this as a kid and enjoyed it. The problem is that now I hardly ever spend cash.
One year in college I gave up buying snacks/meals on campus. If I was too lazy to pack a lunch, I skipped. It was interesting to see how much money I wasted on that kind of thing. It was really good preparation for JVC.
OK, three wonderful things:
1. I have a lot questions for God when I get there about the challenges I was given. Because seriously. seriously.
2. Mittens are adorbs.
3. Good luck on your interview!
Sometimes I have this idea that the first thing we do in Heaven is watch a video tape replay of our lives where we can pause and ask God, “okay what was going on there?”