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Our priest stopped by, unexpectedly, today for a short visit. I was mowing in my pajama pants (long and lightweight cotton) and a long sleeve shirt that is literally, about four sizes too big. So big I can wear it when I am days away from delivery of a baby and it is still big. He is from a large family, so he seems like none of the day to day of large family life bothers him. Like the first time he came over and asked for a toothpick. We did not have any, so I asked my 9yo daughter to get him some dental floss. There was none in their bathroom, so she led him to my bathroom to find floss; past my unmade bed with my towel and pajamas strewn across it, rubbermaid containers of spring/winter clothes that I was in the process of sorting out for the kids....I was embarrassed, he could not understand why... Today, he had been working on his car down the road at another parishioner's home and it was very natural for him to stop by. I fed him warm, fresh from the oven, homemade chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. Maybe he'll remember the cookies and forget the mowing clothes. I guess it could have been worse, I see some people mow in their bathing suits!
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Sometimes I say the stupidest things, like tonight. A dad of a girl on our oldest daughters soccer team asked if we could talk my husband into a horse. I replied...get ready, "I'd have better luck talking him into another baby than a horse." He and my husband laughed. I wanted to crawl under the van seat. What was that? Who says that kind of stuff? Me apparently!
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It has rained in varying degrees for the past 21 days.
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I have a prayer I say everytime I mow, and I love to mow. I have an awesome John Deere riding mower. It has the bars for a steering wheel, it is so cool. Anyway, my prayer goes like this:
"Good St Francis lover of animals, I am too. Please do not let me run over a bird, bunny, turtle or squirrel. But if you want me to run over a snake and chop it into little pieces, I am ok with that. Amen"
I ran over a snake today. Hard to identify after being chopped up by my awesome John Deere.
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One summer when staying with my Grandparents, my sister could not sleep because we kept hearing a woman screaming from the ditch outside our bedroom window...It was an owl...geesh, city kids huh? My Grandparents still, to this day, laugh hard about that summer.
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I do not eat shrimp because it has a weird fiberous texture.
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Everytime the baby just settles in and starts to nurse to sleep, the 3yo needs to be wiped.
Wow, I think it's so cool that your priest would stop by your house! I go to a church where there are something like 3,000 families and only two priests, so that never happens around here. How blessed you are!
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