My daughter loves to destroy toilet paper. And she sometimes loves to eat it, too. But she mostly just loves to unroll it and flail it around and tear it into strips to flail and then crumple up and leave everywhere after briefly sucking on them.
So, basically, my daughter is like a cat with toilet paper. Or a dog. But pet, nonetheless. She is an animal.
God, thank you for my daughter and for my husband. Please, keep them and me safe and make us well. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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I spend far too much time on my phone right now. And it would be too much even if I weren’t dealing with some depression. But I am very lonely right now. As it is, the phone use is making the depression all the worse.
So, here’s to less phone time tomorrow.
God, guide me, please, and help me to become fully healthy. Grant me the sleep to give my days true energy and effective will. Please, keep my husband and my baby and me safe, and make us well. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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Today has been the feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, that is, the conception of Mary by her parents without original sin. Basically, it is a celebration of Mary day.
Ironically, the reading for today is actually about Mary’s fiat, which makes it easily confusing to determine if the day is about when Mary was conceived or when she conceived Jesus. But that scene is still suiting, because the Angel Gabriel greets her as being full of grace already, which came from her conception. (Read a good and quick explanation here.)
Anyway, I love Mary and I am grateful for her, as well as for her intercessions.
Thank you, Mary. Thank you, God. Make us well and keep us safe, please. And whole and together. In Jesus’s name, I pray. Amen.
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We attended a wedding celebration tonight. The wedding was a 40-person event on their ranch about a month ago. But tonight was the ‘everyone I love and have met and liked’ party. And it was very high-end. The coolest part to me was not just that it was half indoors and half on a wrap-around humongous balcony 20 stories up on the bayou with a perfect view of downtown, but that one of the many bars and food stations etc. was a cigar station where the guy was actively making cigars throughout the event. It was very neat and a very new idea to me. Super cool.
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Well, my husband got three of the five awards for his flight club tonight. They were also the only three for which he was qualified in the first place (because he doesn’t teach for them or take lessons from them, which were the other two awards). The owners were cracking up as they presented him with everything, and he was up there, smiling and holding the baby, just looking gorgeous and adorable.
It was great.
Thank you, God. Please, continue to keep him and us safe and well. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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Today was a bit of a weird day. I ended up somewhere I hadn’t really anticipated, and ended up enjoying myself much more than anticipated. However, I also discovered how very much I don’t want their world to be my world. It was surprising, in a way, yet also not surprising. I value money, and I value what it can offer in a life. Perhaps, at a certain point, people forget to value money at all, when they have so much of it. And I don’t want to hit that point in my life. I always want to remember the value of money and to be grateful for the money that I have. I never want to forget that it does come from hard work, be it from my own or from someone else’s. It is not something to through around and gamble on a high level. Period.
So, a positive and a negative and a positive for today. Haha
Thank you, God. Please, help us to sleep well tonight and each night. Keep my husband and my baby and me safe and make us well. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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If my head didn’t already ache from a lack of sufficient sleep and water, I imagine it would be aching now from all the crying.
This is really hard and kind of really sucks. Lots of lovely, wonderful things and moments. But people aren’t meant to be on their own all the time like this. It is terrible for both of us, really.
God, help us to feel your love and to sleep well each night. Keep my husband and daughter and me safe and make us well, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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I guess sleep isn’t really all that necessary, right? I can stay up forever with my daughter as she plays in the middle of the night. Even though I didn’t just sleep for almost three hours the way she did. No big deal.
Ugh.
God, help us both to sleep well at night. Keep my husband and my baby and me safe and well, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.
No, I am not okay. And that just gets to be the norm right now and for the next couple months.
However, I anticipate a very different and very happy pace of life come through end of this January.
Thank you, God, for the challenges and for the strength to overcome them. Please, help us find joy and time together in this next year especially. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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My brain does this thing where, when it knows I have to wait for someone else to do something and get back to me before I have to do anything further, it files the information way in the back and doesn’t even look near it until that something from another person happens. Which, of course, means that, when that other someone doesn’t do that something, the file dusts away in the back, mostly forgotten for a long time. Until that one day on which I have a weird feeling, and my brain starts to ask questions about whether that file actually got handled or not. Did I do what I was supposed to do? Yes. But is it all completed???? And, with a supreme effort, the file is retrieved and I am able slowly to recall what actually happened and how the other person never did what he or she was supposed to do, and so I never finished the full task.
Unfortunately, I am in the middle of one of those events right now, directly in the process of having to remember all the details, because the other person seems never to have done what my brain was waiting for her to do. And the details are quite fuzzy right now, because sleep has not been going well for me in recent weeks… and this is a big deal one… yikes.
God, guide me clearly, please. Show me the way. Keep my husband and me and our baby safe and well. Grant us awesome sleep tonight and each night, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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P.S. I think there’s a raccoon on the back porch…
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