Holy Crap, I’m a Godparent.

It has finally happened. The thing I have been anticipating for years, but was pretty sure wouldn’t happen until one or the other of my siblings got married and had children, which, no offense to them, was not exactly like IMMEDIATELY UPON US, so I thought I had a minimum of like five more years [...]

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Ten Teenagers In One Room For a Year.

Because I am my mother’s daughter, I frequently choose to do things for no other reason than a patronizing exasperation at how poorly someone else is doing them, and a conviction that I am the only person who can do it better, or at all. I am of the oh-for-heaven’s-sake-just- give-me-that-and-let-me-do-it-for-you school of . . [...]

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Gaudete . . . Rejoice!

Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, rejoice; let your forbearance be known to all, for the Lord is near at hand; have no anxiety about anything, but in all things, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God. The third Sunday of Advent, when we light the [...]

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