So happy...we get to keep the house!

I haven't mentioned on the blog why I'm down in South Carolina when my husband is in Massachusetts but we'd both been out of work for two years and this job came up and I had to work! We fell behind on mortgage payments last summer and just couldn't get caught up. Luckily our bank negotiated a loan modification for us and we'll be able to keep the house!

Deo gratias!

Boy, will I be saying prayers of thanksgiving tonight!

Hello again...

I just discovered, via another blog, how to determine how many Google reader subscribers a blog has and I have 14. That's so sweet! I have the time to blog again and it's been quite exciting around here as I'll describe in my next post.

Stay tuned (and thanks for sticking around)!

I know, I know!

I apologize for not blogging in months! I'll be picking up my virtual pen again.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

A Prayer Request

Please pray for my daughter, for wisdom to make a good decision over the next few days.

What Where When Meme

Stolen from Father Richtsteig at Orthometer

1. President Kennedy's Assassination - 22 November 1963

I was in second grade and was surprised to see my teacher crying

2. England's World Cup Semi Final v Germany - 4 July 1990

I have no idea...

3. Margaret Thatcher's resignation - 22 November 1990

I don't know where I was, but I remembered being disappointed.

4. Princess Diana's death - 31 August 1997

I was saddened by her untimely death. It seemed like she was finally experiencing some happiness in her life. I did watch the funeral, etc that Saturday morning and my then-6-year-old daughter wasn't happy that she had to miss her cartoons because of this...

5. Attack on the twin towers - 11 September 2001

I had just left the IT business to start a home-based business. I was listening to the radio, a talk show on WRKO and one of the hosts said that a plane crashed into the WTC. In Boston, we have a tiny office building called the World Trade Center and that's the one I thought they meant. So, I turned on the TV and a few minutes later saw a second plane crash into the WTC towers in New York.

6. The election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger to the papacy - 19 April 2005

Given that I had just come back into the Church a few weeks earlier, I was excited to be working from home and watching EWTN when this was announced. Cardinal Ratzinger was the one I was hoping for...

Personal Prayer Request please

Friday was my husband's last day at his job. My job ends in two weeks. I'd appreciate any prayers you can say for us. I trust that God will take care of us (as always)!

Thanks!

Fun on Facebook

Facebook, the 'social utility' website, popular among high schoolers and college students seems to suddenly be attractive us Catholic bloggers (some of whom have been out of school a long time).

I'm having fun interacting with some folks whose blogs I've always
read but never really conversed with directly. Also, there's many
Catholic groups to join to meet other liked-minded Catholics. For
example,

Catholic Resources on Facebook
The Beauty of Veils for Catholic Women
I Love the Sacrament of Penance!
Friends of the Crescat
St. Blog's Parish
I Will Not Support Komen Because it Funds Abortion Providers
1,000,000 Strong For Stephen T Colbert
Prayers for the Poor Souls in Purgatory
The Cause of Canonization of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Catholics forClerics in Cassocks
3 Million Hail Marys to End Abortion
EWTN Fanclub

I'll add the Facebook link to my profile on my blog's profile page. Stop by and say hi if you're in the FB neighborhood...

I'm Pretty Proud of My Daughter

It appears that the first guy that my daughter dated and really cared for has dumped her, via text message (yes, an incredibly tacky way of doing it). She's not what I would call a religious person but she has begun praying, specifically, I thought, that they get back together. So I said to her, "You know, God doesn't always answer our prayers in a way that we would like, if it's not His Will." She said, "I know. [former boyfriend's name] and I may not get back together, he may not be in God's plan for me but I've also been praying that he finds someone good to be with."

Is she nice or what?

What do you say when a Secular Humanist asks...

"Why is there so much evil in the world?"

You could just roll your eyes and say, "I know, isn't it awful?"

Or you could say it's due to the destruction of the family and pushing God out of our lives.

She asked and I answered. I don't think she liked the answer. Oh well!

Prayer Request

Please pray for a friend of ours, a very nice young man who is going to be in a difficult situation tomorrow night.

It's not life-threatening. I just fear his heart's going to get more broken than it already is.

2Co 11:19 For you gladly suffer the foolish: whereas yourselves are wise.

A Long Absence

To all my faithful readers (lol), sorry about the absence. My company moved further north in October so now my commute is 60 miles, one way, instead of 50 miles. The extra 20 miles a day is really wiping me out...

Insanity Reigns!

Just 11 more hours and this Day of Sweet 16 Party-ness will be over!!! Maybe I'll post a picture or two later (or tomorrow).

We're back!

I know, you didn't know we were gone. We left last Sunday for the wilds of New Hampshire (North Conway/Glen/Jackson area). We got back today and I will be posting various thoughts tomorrow. This is Penny, our corgi, enjoying the view at Diana's Bath, a series of waterfalls in North Conway.