Splinters

25Aug09

I found out today the church of my childhood has decided to allow “partnered gay and lesbian pastors” into ministry at their church.  It is pretty much a given that this decision will result in people disagreeing and breaking off to form their new church.  I won’t delve into the details of why or how [...]

Filed under: Catholic thought, Questions, Religion   |  5 Comments

Donating your body to science

20Aug09

Being the true engineering nerds we are, my husband and I agreed to donate our bodies to science! Now! Ha, we’re actually participating in a study on natural family planning through Marquette University to determine the effectiveness of two internet based methods.  It’s pretty awesome.  No more paper charts for me!  Its a randomized stud.  [...]

Filed under: NFP, Woman thangs   |  2 Comments

26 reasons to not be against the “Institution of Marriage”

19Aug09

This is first of what I hope will be many reflections on marriage and its place in our society, in part due to the experience I had at the Ruth Institute Student Conference. Sociology of Marriage I’ve been working on this post for a couple days, but I had a new inspiration for how to [...]

Filed under: Dating, Marriage, Religion   |  3 Comments

That’s green-house gas coming out those diapers

17Aug09

Interesting opinion piece on the idea of equating births merely to carbon footprints.  Definitely goes against all traditional Catholic/christian thought. It reminded me of this T-shirt I saw once that said: “I heart the pitter patter of little carbon footprints!” Some excerpts: “When Mr. Murtaugh runs the numbers, he finds some alarming results. Take an [...]

Filed under: Family Friendly?   |  2 Comments

Here we go again….

17Aug09

Last week the paperwork on our home was progressing nicely and we were super happy to hear that the appraisal went off without a hitch!  Our new home was appraised at a value much higher than what we are paying for it.  Yay! (Mostly due to the really nice houses going up all around it [...]

Filed under: Home   |  2 Comments

August 14th – The Day That Would Never Come

14Aug09

August 14th has a special place in my heart for reminding me that things do happen eventually and if I’m just patient enough, things will come in their right time and place. More specifically, August 14th, 1999. I was in 9th grade and had just survived a move from Nebraska to Virgina a year earlier.  [...]

Filed under: About Me, Memories   |  2 Comments

Take 7 (3)

14Aug09

11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 I’m up doing quick-takes at this hour because my husband and I have developed an extremely bad habit of pushing the snooze on the alarm clock for the requisite 2 hours before it finally gives up on us and stops….and we keep sleeping.  Seriously, when I wake up at 10:30am and realize that my [...]

Filed under: Quick Takes   |  10 Comments

More than a “Friendship Certificate!”

11Aug09

Before I write the series on marriage, I first wanted to shed light on the current popular perspective on marriage by doing a little movie analysis in light of what I learned this past weekend on a movie that you may remember from a while back, “He’s Just Not That Into You”. When I saw [...]

Filed under: Dating, Marriage, Movies, Woman thangs   |  4 Comments

Enlightening Weekend!

10Aug09

Hello again! We’re back from a very long and eventful weekend and I have SO much to share here.   I am very excited about it all!  Any feelings of trepidation were taken away this past weekend as I saw that I am not alone in my views and that there is an entire community [...]

Filed under: Marriage   |  2 Comments

I have a new name…

05Aug09

…and its Auntie Ali!!  I’m literally the most thrilled person on earth, maybe apart from my sister and her husband, who welcomed this little bundle of joy into the world (officially) yesterday afternoon.  I cannot wait to meet him come next weekend. It looks like he has his beautiful mother’s beautiful hair!

Filed under: About Me   |  2 Comments