Does Your Teen Get Enough Rest?
Posted by Danielle Bean in Health on Thursday, June 25, 2009
Since ending our school year, I’ve noticed a new trend in my household: Some of the kids actually sleep in the morning.
One recent morning, I found myself poking, prodding, and begging my almost 13-year-old son to get out of bed at 9:30 am.
The irony was delicious.
“Are you the same child who ten years ago used to pounce on my legs and drag me out of bed to make him breakfast at 5 am?” I asked.
“Mrrrrphhh,”... READ MORE
Early to Bed, Early to Rise? Maybe Not
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Tuesday, June 09, 2009
I thought yesterday’s Coffee Talk discussion about family bedtimes and Arwen’s ongoing discussion of sleepless babies made for some very interesting reading.
Bedtimes are something I’ve thought about a lot in recent years.
You see, we used to be a 7:30 pm bedtime kind of family. I loved that!
But then those grade school kids we were so fond of pushing around had the nerve to grow up into middle-sized... READ MORE
Thituation Ethicths
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Tuesday, November 18, 2008
So we’re having a bit of a dilemma around here and I’m curious to see how you would handle a similar situation.
Our son, we’ll call him “Augie,” has this tooth. It’s a loose tooth, a disconcertingly loose front tooth that has been hanging by a thread for about five days. It needs to come out.
In order to touch this tooth, and try to remove it, I have to bribe my son. Yesterday, I paid “Augie” one... READ MORE
Cleanliness Really Is Next To Godliness
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Homemaking on Monday, August 04, 2008
Last week I was able to attend six days of silent Spiritual Exercises (posting here through the magic of post-dated entries). The most intimate conversations between God and the soul aren’t for sharing, but I will let you in on a tangential light of my meditation on Christ’s Passion and Resurrection. Take a look at this from John 20. You know the scene: Mary Magdalene has reported the empty tomb and Peter & John run to investigate. Picking up at verse 6 we read:
When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed.
Why did they believe? Because grave-robbers would have left a mess, but Christ stripped the sheets and placed them just so.
...Yeah, my kids aren’t going for it either.
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