Peony Moss: November 2004 Archives

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1. make coffee
2. make bacon
3. put the car seat pad in the dryer
(Note to self: remind husband that cars, fruit pies, and three-year-olds do not mix)
4. Despam the blog
5. get dressed
6. drink coffee
7. finish dishes
8. check on car seat
9. get Hambet dressed, fed, and in a car seat by 8:30 -- use spare if necessary
9.5 Say rosary in car; plan another time of prayer today.
10. pack some letters, catalogs, cookbooks
11. take Hambet to preschool; while he's in class drink coffee with other moms and write letters, peruse catalogs and cookbooks.
12. Come home. Stop by Safeway for ground beef if Hambet isn't too tired.
12.5 eat lunch
13. Declutter dining room table.
14. Dust and vacuum downstairs.
15. Get Hambet down for nap. (move to 12.75 if feasible.)
16. Call client.
17. Start supper (note to self -- check condition of lettuce; add to grocery list if necessary)
18. If time permits make sample scrapbook page.
19. Serve supper.
19.5 Put Hambet in pajamas.
20. Welcome clients to scrapbook class.

Please pray...

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Happy Thanksgiving!

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Had friends over this morning and I'm just getting ready to start my pies. Tomorrow it's off to see my mother-in-law for Thanksgiving. We'll be back Sunday. Have a happy Thanksgiving!

I took Victor's advice...

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...and saw The Incredibles yesterday.

I am so blown away, I can't even tell you how good that movie is. I am scheming to see it again this very week.

(And yes, I was right not to bring Hambet.)

Gerard's obituary

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is here.
There are details about the funeral tomorrow, and a place to leave condolences for his family.

... and may perpetual light shine on him. Amen.

He compiled the first directory, and now he is St Blog's first intercessor: Gerard Serafin, of Praise of Glory, died early this morning.

Dear Santa...

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I know I have not been verygood this year, I know. But I haven't been unusually wicked, either.

Dear Santa, as you know, my grandmother passed away this year and this will be the first year in my mother's life without Christmas At The Farm. My sister is coming home for Christmas and I would like to go too. But the plane fares are so expensive!

Now, Santa, I know you know all about flying. Can you arrange for some really cheap airfare for us to go to Fargo? My proposed travel dates are December 24 to December 28. I would prefer to travel in the morning or the early part of the day. I need three tickets.

If you don't do it for me, Santa, please do it for Hambet. He's been good.

Sincerely yours,
Your friend and ally,
Peony Moss

Busy

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It's been a busy week. This time last Thursday we were bundling Hambet into the car and heading off to the emergency room -- he was sliding off his booster chair and smacked his head against the edge of the counter (very close to where he hit his head back in January). This time it was more serious and he ended up getting five stitches. They are out now; the wound is healing well but he still has green bruising on the side of his face.

Last Friday I woke up with one of those horrible colds that makes you feel like death even though clinically you aren't that sick. I've been keeping myself going with Sudafed this week, and today I'm finally feeling better and enjoying the energy surge. Meanwhile, poor dh has been suffering with seasonal allergies, and we learned at the ER that Hambet has them too. We've gone through a lot of Kleenex this week and have mostly been stumbling around croaking at each other.

But today I've been rolling. My husband was grunting with displeasure this morning because the refrigerator was so empty, so I took the opportunity to clean it out this morning. I could just stand there with the door open gazing with pleasure at my nice clean fridge. My husband was not terribly impressed with the sparkling fridge, but he did seem to appreciate that I went out and brought back something to put in it.

Now I am preparing for tomorrow's big project: painting Hambet's room (Behr "Geyser" with white ceiling and trim.) So off to prep the room.

Oh, and I've started my *shudder* Christmas shopping.

Blogger in need of prayer

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St Blog's anchoress, Karen Marie Knapp, one of those people whose prayers keep the universe from falling apart, could use prayers herself -- she is in the hospital with cellulitis and pneumonia and had surgery on Tuesday.

Thanks to Nathan via Gerard for the heads-up.

So who's seen The Incredibles?

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My dear husband has been longing to take Hambet (3 1/2) to his first movie. We all love Pixar around here, but I see that PG on The Incredibles and am having second thoughts.

The thing is that they will give a movie a PG for firing a fantasy weapon (because it looks like a G-U-N) but they will give a movie a G that has all kinds of things hated by parents of preschoolers (name-calling, potty humor, "shut up", and other obnoxious easily imitated behaviors.)

So what do you think? How young is "too young" for a matinee of The Incredibles?

More work to do

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Given my lousy track record, I should probably stay off this issue. But here I go.

Mark Shea links to this action item from K.Lo at The Corner:

Senator Arlen Specter cannot become the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee. You can go here to email Bill Frist, the Senate Majority Leader.

Shea gives this sample letter:

Dear Senator Frist,

After a long and contentious fight to retain the White House and expand our majority in both houses of Congress, I am extremely dismayed by comments made by Senator Specter regarding the President's right to choose his own candidates for the nation's judiciary. After several years of stonewalling on the part of Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee, it is incredibly distressing to see a member of the Republican party attempting to block excellent and qualified judges from the bench because of their conservative ideology.

I am a partisan. I will continue to work for our party's success because I believe that we embody the principles that are best for the nation. But make no mistake, conservative members of the Republican party will not continue to support the GOP if a very small minority of our Senators refuse to give a fair hearing to judges who agree with the party platform.

The last election should be a wakeup call to party leadership. The single most important issue to voters was "moral values". The party did a masterful job of getting Evangelical and other Conservative voters to the polls - voters who stayed home in 2000 - largely because of the moral issues facing the nation. It would be disastrous for the party and country if these voters felt betrayed and did not return to the polls in 2006 and 2008.

Renegade judges have been legislating from the bench for decades and have recently accelerated a dangerous experiment in social engineering - whether by redefining marriage, tinkering with the Pledge of Allegiance, or ruling against late term abortion restrictions. The American people recognize this judicial tyranny for what it is, and we look to you and other members of the Senate to put a stop to it.

Senator Specter and Democrats in the Senate say that the President should not nominate candidates with a conservative ideology because they are "outside the mainstream". If that is the case, most of the country must be outside of the mainstream. The vast majority of Americans support some limits on abortion, and clearly Tuesday's results in the states voting on Marriage Amendment should prove that this country will not accept gay marriage as a government supported institution.

In light of all of this, I am writing to you to urge you to take action to remove Senator Specter from the Judiciary Committee. The idea that this man, who won a tough primary fight only with the help of the White House, could be the next Chair of the Judiciary Committee is truly frightening. Please take steps to ensure that he does not aid liberals in continuing to block the President's agenda.

I understand that this move could lead to Mr. Specter defecting to the other side. In reality Senator, he made that defection long ago. Please do what is right and help President Bush and the majority of the American people in seating solid judges, without forcing them to pass a liberal litmus test. As our majority leader, we are counting on you.

Call Senator Frist:
DC office number is 202-224-3344 (fax is 202-228-1264)
Nashville office number is 615-352-9411
Majority Leader office number is 202-224-3135

Peony the loser

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Well, I was a good citizen do-bee yesterday and researched all the candidates and questions on the ballot.

Here in Maryland, the idea of a two-party system is still catching on, so it didn't surprise me that I couldn't help the President with a few electoral votes (though I could do my part for the popular vote.) And it didn't surprise me that my choices for Senator and Representative didn't win either.

But all the ballot questions I voted "yes" for also failed. And all the school board candidates I voted for also lost! At first I thought, well, it was because I didn't vote for incumbents. (I usually never vote for incumbents in local elections.) But there was one incumbent I did vote for -- and he lost!

So remind me not to post my own voter's guide next year.

Thank you...

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to Florida for delivering a nice comfortable margin for their candidate
to Ohio for coming through for the President -- and with a nice, comfortable margin
and to South Dakota for tossing out Daschle!

The titian-haired sleuth

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Great news for Terri!

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Pray, pray, pray!

Father Johansen writes:

In a separate hearing on Thursday, Pinellas County Circuit Court Judge Greer heard arguments from George Felos, who asked the court to end his stay on the removal of Terri's feeding tube early, on Friday. Attorney for the Schindlers, David Gibbs, countered by asking Judge Greer to continue the stay indefinitely.

But in a surprise decision, on Friday Judge Greer issued the indefinite stay requested by Gibbs on behalf of the Schindlers.

The decision barring the removal of Terri's feeding tube indefinitely has prompted Michael Schiavo's attorney, George Felos, to consider ending his efforts to kill Terri:

"I think we are coming very close, if we are not here already, where proceeding in the judicial system is futile," said George Felos, who represents Michael Schiavo in his quest for court permission to stop feeding his brain-damaged wife. "It would appear that pursuing any remedy through the judicial system is simply a waste of time," Felos said. "It is hard to see where there is any benefit in staying the course in this case."

He's here! He has a name! Details to follow!

UPDATE:
8 pounds, 7 ounces, 21 inches

Peony's things to do list

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1. Pray for the souls of the faithful departed.
2. Pray for Pansy and a quick, safe delivery.
3. Mop the kitchen floor.
4. Keep a doctor's appointment.
5. Vote. (I even researched the judges and school board members!)
6. Plan activity for Hambet's play group tomorrow.
7. Cook dinner. (Chicken of some kind.)

UPDATE: at 5:30 and I've only completed 1, 2, 4, and 5. Yikes! #7 will be an encore presentation of Sunday dinner, supplemented with some snack-type treats for my election-statistics-junkie husband, who will be up all night tapp-tappa-tapping on the Net, with the TV and radio going. If I go quick I can knock out #3 really fast....

UPDATE part 2: *slapping forehead* After reading an exchange between TSO and dear Mr Luse over in the Apologia comments box, I am reminded that I forgot to pick up some beer for my dear husband while I was out. Oh well. There is a beer store near our polling place, so perhaps that will be an incentive to get him over there to vote....

Pansy's things to do list

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1. Vote
2. Have baby


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Any loose change in referral fees goes to the Feed Pansy's Ravenous Teens Fund.)


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