Should Christians have them? What do you think? Don't they imply that this life is all there is, and we need to get going and enjoying ourselves, because there ain't no tomorrow? Or am I stuck in the mud?
They remind me of my new least-favorite billboard - for Dos Equis - the one that says "life is short ... make sure it's enough."
All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.
About me
I'm 43, and yes, that is a good age. Attorney, mom and wife: 3 full-time jobs, which makes me jack of all trades, master of none. I like it. Two boys, 13 and 10, otherwise known here as One and Two, just to keep things simple. Husband? He is the inspiration for the title of this blog. He works 14 hour days, to which I can only say: I'm incredibly grateful he doesn't work weekends.
I love: my boys, my God, this city, good food, good books, my church, and dogs (unless they're really, really small).
I hate: fear, cold weather, grey skies, reality TV, shoes that pinch, and Daylight Savings Time.
You can email me at grasswidowsdiary (at) gmail (dot) com - I love mail, too.
I love: my boys, my God, this city, good food, good books, my church, and dogs (unless they're really, really small).
I hate: fear, cold weather, grey skies, reality TV, shoes that pinch, and Daylight Savings Time.
You can email me at grasswidowsdiary (at) gmail (dot) com - I love mail, too.
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"Always there has been an adventure just around the corner - and the world is still full of corners!"
--- Roy Chapman Andrews
“Time is a treasure that melts away. It escapes us, slipping through our fingers like water through the mountain rocks. Tomorrow will soon be another yesterday. Our lives are so very short. Yesterday has gone and today is passing by. But what a great deal can be done for the love of God in this short space of time!”
--- Josemaria Escriva
"Do all in your power not to fall, for strong athletes should not fall. But if you do fall, get up again at once and continue the contest. Even if you fall a thousand times ... rise up again each time, and keep on doing this until the day of your death. For it is written, "If a righteous man falls seven times' - that is repeatedly throughout his life - seven times 'shall he rise again.'"
--- Saint John of Karpathos
Kids and Books
- Fiction at Half Past Eleven
- HAISLN 2011 Book List
- Fiction at Almost Eleven
- Fiction at Almost Eight
- History and other Non-Fiction: the Ten-Turning-Eleven Edition
- History and Science at Ten
- Fiction at Ten
- Seven is Magic
- What to Read When You're Almost Ten: The History Edition
- What to Read When You’re Almost Ten: The Fiction Edition
- Reading in First Grade
- Books We're Reading
- Boys and Books: The Nine and Six Year Old Edition
- Book List
- Reading While Rome Burns
- One's Bookshelf
- I Like Green Eggs and Ham, Sam I Am
- Bad Books Make for Poor Readers
- History Books for Boys
- Read Alone Books for Boys
- Reading to Boys Part 2
- Read Aloud List for Boys
- Amazing Children's Books
Some Favorite Posts
- A Lesson Found in a Case of the Wiggles
- A Year of Orthodoxy
- Best Brother Award
- Fine Motor Skills and Boys
- Growing Up Nervous
- I Hate Valentine's Day
- Kids and Grades
- Kids and Money
- Late Night on 9/11 with Two
- Life on Hold
- Oscar's Testimony
- The Gift of Forgiveness
- The Ike Saga
- The Time has Come, the Walrus Said
- Un-frustrating Our Children
- What a Good Boy
Blogs I like to read
Things to check out
- Ancient Faith Radio
- Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese
- Chinquapin
- Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America
- Flying around the World
- Heartline Ministries
- Hometta - Jenny and Mark Johnson
- How to be a Retronaut
- International Princess Project
- IOCC
- Living Water
- Lone Star Boxer Rescue
- No Kill Houston
- SAT-7
- Team Rubicon
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- Seen and Heard on the Internets
- Priorities
- 10 Year Anniversary
- On Self Confidence
- Heard this Morning
- Back from Hiatus
- How I know it's Summer
- The Haircut
- Scratch and Sniff Blog
- Some More of Two's Inventions
- 55 Years
- Boys and Books: The Nine and Six Year Old Edition
- Prince Caspian
- What to Do if You're Laid Off
- Camo Dog
- Morning Light
- The View from the Floor
- Meet Knight!
- My New Ride
- Hypereating, or Food is my Hobby
- People I Used to Like
- You Don't Say
- Five Things, or More Accurately, I Must Be Nuts
- Bucket Lists
- God and Meaning
- Two on Itching
- Can It Be?
- La Swine
- A Lesson Found in a Case of the Wiggles
- Two on Sunday Brunch
- Two's Little Obsession
- One the Green Belt
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2 comments:
I've never been one to worry so much about such lists because I figure in heaven you will be able to: A) do anything you missed on Earth and B) watch the happy/funny parts of your life you would love to re-live. While I admit many times I wish my eyes were cameras, I still believe I'll get to see the "good parts" again.
No theology to back this up whatsoever.
Faith only!
Oh on another note guess what I found today while book-hunting?
First Edition of the Grass Widow's Diary!
Do you have one already?
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