InsomniMom

Big world.

Little sleep.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Peek-a-boo

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I was on my way from Hobby Lobby to Kroger today when my mobile buzzed. "Hello?" I said after pressing my speaker phone button. ...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Human nature [mine specifically]

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If I were, say, in a parking lot. And there was someone backing out of a parking space who did so in a manner that struck me as being bonehe...
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NUNDAY: The hour of mercy

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With so much crazy going on in the world right now, I wanted to take a moment to thank all the cloistered sisters -- mostly Poor Clares and ...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

The unbearable brightness of seeing

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I've been invited, on Facebook, to participate in something called "Earth Hour," an event of which I was previously unaware. A...
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FRENCH FRIDAYS WITH DORIE: Beggar's Linguine

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I had to make the executive decision (as CEO of the kitchen here at the home place) to skip over the scallops with caramel-orange sauce that...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

FISH ON FRIDAY: The Tuna Casserole Project

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This week's revolting casserole might as well have saved the money on that flat-leaf parsley garnish because did you ever see the likes ...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Please feel free to call me honey

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I went to Aldi today to do the weekly food shopping and I went alone for once. I usually take at least one of the girls with me because Aldi...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

NUNDAY: How to have fun during Lent

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These sisters chose to work a picture puzzle during their recreation time on Ash Wednesday and it looks like the postulant in the foreground...
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Sunday, March 20, 2011

It is COMING. It CANNOT BE STOPPED.

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These may be daffodils. Or maybe tulips. For all I know, they could be flesh-eating plants from the Little Nursery of Horrors - I don't ...
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Saturday, March 19, 2011

FRENCH FRIDAYS WITH DORIE: Salted Butter Break-Ups (Broyé)

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Kayte, Katie and I have been really inconsistent in our posting of recipes made with the internet cooking group French Fridays with Dorie, w...
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FISH ON FRIDAY: The Tuna Casserole Project

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Here is this week's offering, shown to you because? At your Catholic high school? The cafeteria ladies hate you.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

20th Anniversary approaching!

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I just got a telephone call from my husband, who said, "You know, with our twentieth anniversary coming up in June, I thought it would ...
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I'm a happy Catholic; a wife; a homeschooling mother of one teenage daughter and one college-aged daughter; a writer; enthusiastic crafter of countdown paper chains; a Buffy fan, a reader; a Shakespeare teacher; a literature teacher; a composition teacher; a former soap-maker; a minivan driver; an inward grump; an outward sweetie-pie; a history geek; a dog lover; a rehabilitated and repentant former thief of bandwidth; a killer of plants; a soft-hearted taker-in of strays; a reformed housekeeper; an insomniac
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