Remember all that sunshiney fun we had last week? GONE. All week long (Monday thru Friday, anyway) we had slushy rain. Oh, well...the May Flowers come next, right? There's Addie on April 18th...
Saturday, April 23, 2005
APRIL SHOWERS
Remember all that sunshiney fun we had last week? GONE. All week long (Monday thru Friday, anyway) we had slushy rain. Oh, well...the May Flowers come next, right? There's Addie on April 18th...
This picture was actually taken APRIL 7th when we went out to dinner with my parents and grandparents. We celebrated Heidi's birthday since they were leaving in the morning. The restaurant people gave her ice cream, put this sombrero on her, sang a song in Spanish and took this polaroid. It cracks me up.
Friday, April 22, 2005
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Good Stuff
I was just thinking about some things I‘ve been enjoying lately and decided to share.
First is Booth’s hand cream, now available at Walmart (previously had to hunt it down at the health food store). If your skin is as horribly winter-ravaged and dry and cracked as mine, you will cry tears of joy when you put this stuff on your hands, elbows and feet. But here’s a tip—it absorbs better into damp skin, so I rinse, pat dry, and moisturize. Ahhhh! And it smells good— light honey almond scent.
Online, I googled Natalie Merchant just to see what she is up to (we were friends back in the 80’s, you know). I felt like a slacker fan when I read that she had a baby girl in 2003. How cool for her. On another note, her website is really beautiful and you should look at it.
Another site I was reading was kind of irreverent but really super funny. It’s making fun of baby names and I LOVE IT! After having my first baby in Utah, where baby naming is especially horrific, I had to laugh hard at this commentary.
Our bed. It’s a great bed. When I sleep elsewhere, I realize what a great bed we have. It’s a King Stearns & Foster double pillow top on a log frame made by my husband. I highly recommend the mattress. With 500TC all cotton sheets.
Dole Whole Fruit Bars. Delicious. Nutritious. A decent substitute for eegee's way up here in Montana, even when it's snowing.
First is Booth’s hand cream, now available at Walmart (previously had to hunt it down at the health food store). If your skin is as horribly winter-ravaged and dry and cracked as mine, you will cry tears of joy when you put this stuff on your hands, elbows and feet. But here’s a tip—it absorbs better into damp skin, so I rinse, pat dry, and moisturize. Ahhhh! And it smells good— light honey almond scent.
Online, I googled Natalie Merchant just to see what she is up to (we were friends back in the 80’s, you know). I felt like a slacker fan when I read that she had a baby girl in 2003. How cool for her. On another note, her website is really beautiful and you should look at it.
Another site I was reading was kind of irreverent but really super funny. It’s making fun of baby names and I LOVE IT! After having my first baby in Utah, where baby naming is especially horrific, I had to laugh hard at this commentary.
Our bed. It’s a great bed. When I sleep elsewhere, I realize what a great bed we have. It’s a King Stearns & Foster double pillow top on a log frame made by my husband. I highly recommend the mattress. With 500TC all cotton sheets.
Dole Whole Fruit Bars. Delicious. Nutritious. A decent substitute for eegee's way up here in Montana, even when it's snowing.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Habemus Papa (& A Really Bad Attitude)
The whole pope thing has been very interesting. I realized while watching some of the ceremonies through the funeral and the conclave how much academia took from catholicism, and why Nibley called graduation robes, "robes of the false priesthood." Disclaimer: I don't claim to know much about Catholicism and the following remarks are just gut reactions and observations, not meant to offend ANYONE.
It is so weird to me how people commenting on Ratzinger's selection can simultaneously say they believe the cardinals are acting on God's will (when they elect a pope) and argue that Ratzinger isn't fit to be pope.
And why do people want to be part of a democratic church? Is there security in doctrine that changes according to popular opinion? If you want to be part of a democratic church, I don't think Catholicism is for you (nor Mormonism, of course). I was just listening to a very annoyed nun (Maureen Fiedler) who wanted a pope who would get with the program and allow women to be ordained and endorse birth control and married priests. Um, I think she's looking for a different religion.
It bothers me when people despise orthodoxy. I have a lot of respect for churches and institutions--and people, for that matter--who can hold on to their beliefs even when they go out of fashion with the general public. One of the most annoying things I heard along these lines was from Christianne Amanpour during the mourning of JPII. She talked about how the church needed to elect a pope who would make it "relevant" in the new millennium. She said this while overlooking a crowd of millions of people. Faithful people, who would beg to differ. How can you say something is irrelevant when it has been important enough for the media to cover for almost a month now, and when there are 1.1 billion Catholics in the world? Granted, not all of them agree with the pope, and even fewer heed is counsel, but to imply that the church is irrelevant because the doctrines don't fit our modern mores is so silly. And arrogant.
And speaking of arrogance, did anyone see Oprah today? Holy self-congratulations, Batman! And I almost hurled when they had the special segment celebrating the woman who got the courage to leave her husband by reading O Magazine. "Yay, us! We're breaking up families everywhere! You go, girl! Way to be self-centered!" Granted, they didn't mention if he had been abusive--if he was, then okay. But if he was cramping her style or crushing her dreams or what ever--PUH-LEEZ, ladies. The next segment was about a stay-at-home mom who felt like an unfulfilled loser at home doing her thankless mommy job, so she found the courage to start a home business and make something of herself so she wouldn't just be another SAHM with nothing to contribute to society (I mean, besides healthy, happy, upstanding, responsible citizens of planet earth--cuz that doesn't really count). Maybe I am just irritable today, but man, that show made me SICK!
Leave some coments with your thoughts--I am taking my cranky self to bed!
It is so weird to me how people commenting on Ratzinger's selection can simultaneously say they believe the cardinals are acting on God's will (when they elect a pope) and argue that Ratzinger isn't fit to be pope.
And why do people want to be part of a democratic church? Is there security in doctrine that changes according to popular opinion? If you want to be part of a democratic church, I don't think Catholicism is for you (nor Mormonism, of course). I was just listening to a very annoyed nun (Maureen Fiedler) who wanted a pope who would get with the program and allow women to be ordained and endorse birth control and married priests. Um, I think she's looking for a different religion.
It bothers me when people despise orthodoxy. I have a lot of respect for churches and institutions--and people, for that matter--who can hold on to their beliefs even when they go out of fashion with the general public. One of the most annoying things I heard along these lines was from Christianne Amanpour during the mourning of JPII. She talked about how the church needed to elect a pope who would make it "relevant" in the new millennium. She said this while overlooking a crowd of millions of people. Faithful people, who would beg to differ. How can you say something is irrelevant when it has been important enough for the media to cover for almost a month now, and when there are 1.1 billion Catholics in the world? Granted, not all of them agree with the pope, and even fewer heed is counsel, but to imply that the church is irrelevant because the doctrines don't fit our modern mores is so silly. And arrogant.
And speaking of arrogance, did anyone see Oprah today? Holy self-congratulations, Batman! And I almost hurled when they had the special segment celebrating the woman who got the courage to leave her husband by reading O Magazine. "Yay, us! We're breaking up families everywhere! You go, girl! Way to be self-centered!" Granted, they didn't mention if he had been abusive--if he was, then okay. But if he was cramping her style or crushing her dreams or what ever--PUH-LEEZ, ladies. The next segment was about a stay-at-home mom who felt like an unfulfilled loser at home doing her thankless mommy job, so she found the courage to start a home business and make something of herself so she wouldn't just be another SAHM with nothing to contribute to society (I mean, besides healthy, happy, upstanding, responsible citizens of planet earth--cuz that doesn't really count). Maybe I am just irritable today, but man, that show made me SICK!
Leave some coments with your thoughts--I am taking my cranky self to bed!
Sunday, April 17, 2005
OUR WEEK IN PICTURES
On Monday, we had one of our first SPRING DAYS, so the girls and I celebrated by taking along walk, feeding the ducks, and playing at the park. This was Heidi's first time really playing at the park--at first she wasn't sure she liked the swing, but soon she started to love it and was giggling with delight along with Addie.
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