preach without the practice

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I am Catholic.  Bap­tized and raised as such. I have so many mem­o­ries of Mass with my Mom and my Grand­par­ents.  The rit­ual of the Mass is so com­fort­ing to me, even today.  As a child I attended other reli­gious cer­e­monies.  My child­hood best friend was Mor­mon and I went to her ser­vices a bunch of...

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my blessings

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I am blessed. This I know. Cheers to you and your bless­ings on this Thanks­giv­ing Day.   0   

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hindsight

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I have demons.   We all do.   Mine are called per­fec­tion­ism, expec­ta­tions, and hindsight.   Yours?   This week I’ve had some wake up calls.  They come when you need them the most, in my expe­ri­ence any­way.  Remind­ing you you’re doing it wrong, going to fast, for­get­ting the point.   Quick exam­ple with a lit­tle back­ground. ...

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apples to oranges to bannas and grapes

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I’m pretty sure if there were an actual man­ual for rais­ing chil­dren one of the 10 com­mand­ments would be Thou Shalt Not Com­pare Your Children. But for­tu­nately there’s no man­ual, thus no com­mand­ments, thus I compare. I can’t help it.  Can you? The old­est to the youngest, the boys to the girls, the big to the...

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six

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operation DALS (8)

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**A dis­claimer… this is tech­ni­cally not the next one in the book.  There are three recipes that come before this one but all three of them are meant for enter­tain­ing.  My sweet chil­dren do not qual­ify as peo­ple I’d like to enter­tain with my expert (haha) cook­ing skills.  I’ll make them even­tu­ally but for now,...

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