She grabbed her mother's phone and texted her grandmother "Yert".

She had just been talking about this grandmother just a few minutes earlier, too.

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We moved back in to Alexandria yesterday; my mother-in-law is moving in with us, and we needed a house without stairs. This place is also quite close to the metro, and equal or better in location for almost everything we go to ( Read more... )

I'm technically furloughed now, but I'm considered mission-essential for the rest of the week. So until next weekend, I still have to come to work, but I won't get paid for that time until the government starts up again ( Read more... )

It looks like I'll be tonsured a reader on Sunday.

Eek.

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Row, row, row your Ark
Gently through the flood
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Behold the wrath of God.

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What if that guy in Connecticut was actually a militant pro-gun-control activist who did the massacre in order to inspire more restrictive laws?

I don't know that I believe it, but it does fit what little I've heard.

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It all started with me understanding birth professionals by analogy with clergy, because I'm that kind of church nerd. A doula is like a deacon, a midwife is like a priest, an OB is like a bishop. For most births, like most services, a midwife/priest is about what you need, but if things get complicated, you might need to call in an OB/bishop.

Then ( Read more... )

Anna Theodora was born at 1:26:37 am on the 12th of July. We're all doing well. She was 6 pounds, 11.6 ounces (3135 grams) and 20" (51 cm) long at birth.

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I now live in a townhouse in Woodbridge, Virginia. We moved in this weekend; nearly half of the people moving us, including Alice, are pregnant; for future reference, this is not an optimal demographic for moving assistance ( Read more... )

My bishops are alligator wrestling. Kind of.

http://eadiocese.org/News/2011/dec/miami3.en.htm