Susan's Pendulum

We watched the original Rocky movie tonight. It's one of those movies that's on the top-100 list as all-time great movies. We...

Today some obnoxious little 10-yr-old girls decided to pick on Andrew during his paper route. "Hey, paper boy, give us a paper." ...

The cars are driving past the house are going about 30 mph instead of 65. The snow started about 7:00 here tonight, and is already piling u...

Our fieldtrip today was to St Sava Serbian Orthodox Cathedral . It's probably the most beautiful building I've ever been in. The o...

Jane started this and tagged everybody. I'm sure that all of us have lots of stuff in our fridges, so list just five things in each cate...

You know what people do when they're snowed in? Check blogs. My site-meter report for the day of the big storm last week was unbelieva...

"Remember, man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return." There was a paragraph in the church bulletin this afternoon, e...

everyone is flocking to the car wash! I figured that today, while I was doing the weekly errands, I should wash the salt and grime off the ...

In past years of homeschooling, we could never find much on the War of 1812. We found kiddy books on the Star Spangled Banner. We found gr...

This morning my husband and I attended a workshop at the hospital. The social workers annually have a lecture on planning for the future fo...

In Didache this week, we read the parable of the prodigal son. At the end of the story, the older brother resented the party for the younge...

The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day on Monday caused me to wake up Tuesday morning with a cold sore. It's right in the middle...

The sweet potatoes leaked sweet juice out of their foil-wraps today while they were baking. I could've left the oven sticky and messy, ...

Maggie saw the cardiologist today for a follow-up to surgery. Apparently I had misunderstood how well her lungs were doing last time; the l...

Nanny McPhee is another movie we watched recently. It's got Emma Thompson, and we like her a lot too. (Gee, it seems we're on a j...

Last night we settled down with a movie we'd never heard of, while I worked on paying bills and getting a month's worth of budgeting...

Whine warning! Whine warning! Look out below! Whine warning! I was feeling sorry for myself last Friday because I had to miss a party wit...

When I wrote something last month about the Sacraments and the preaching being the thing that "makes us good," there were some ob...

My 12-yr-old doesn't usually watch Blues Clues anymore. And she's pretty much over Teletubbies. We were still watching Mr Rogers l...

A year ago, little Frederick was here visiting us for a few days. He was about 14 months old at the time. He graciously brought along his ...