Category Archives: culture

To Knit Like Mrs. Weasley

Posted on 15.Dec.05 by | 1 comment

Ever since I started reading Harry Potter, I have longed to knit like Mrs. Weasley, charming my needles to do all the work while I bustle about doing other things. As I work on a knit Christmas gift, worried I won’t finish in time to send it off, the longing has come to me several times in the last few weeks. But I know, charming the needles to knit for me takes all the fun out of it. I want the recipient of this knit gift to know that I appreciate her enough to knit and knit and knit for hours and hours on end, just for her. It’s a labor of love, after all.

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You Might Be Emerging If…

Posted on 04.Dec.05 by | 5 comments

Mike sent this link to me yesterday and it cracked me up, probably because we are both reading A Generous Orthodoxy at the moment.

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Tea

Posted on 15.Nov.05 by | 29 comments

I like tea. I’d love to try Portsmouth Tea as I’ve only heard good things about it. Right now I am drinking a lot of red raspberry leaf tea (like a pregnant mama ought!) and my old standard, Good Earth Original. What’s in your cup?

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Husband on husbands

Posted on 09.Nov.05 by | 9 comments

Mike (using his laptop on the bed) – “We really need one of those pillows with the arm rests that you put behind your back.”
Kristen – “You mean a husband?”
Mike – “I hate calling them that. How weird would it have sounded if I had said, ‘We really need a husband?'”

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Being Fruitful and Multiplying

Posted on 08.Nov.05 by | 4 comments

A month or so ago, Mike and I went to the dental school at MCV for a screening. He needs his wisdom teeth pulled, so we went to the screening to get evaluated by professors and make sure we qualify as patients, etc. So, we got panoramic x-rays and patient histories done, and we’re sitting in dental chairs waiting for four tenured faculty members to come around and check us out. The second one sits down, looks at my chart and remarks, “A baby last July and due again in December?” “Yes, sir.” I said. He immediately responds, “Are you obeying the command to be fruitful and multiply?” I laughed and said, “Something like that.” He looked Jewish and had a Jewish surname and when he found out where Mike taught, he nodded knowingly. I’ve just never had anyone ask me that in a secular context and I found it really funny!

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Five Songs I’m Currently Loving Meme

Posted on 07.Nov.05 by | 2 comments

I got tagged by Kelly.

THE RULES: List five songs that you are currently loving. It doesn’t matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they’re any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the songs on your blog, then tag five other bloggers/friends to see what they’re listening to. Continue reading →

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Happy All Saints Day!

Posted on 01.Nov.05 by | 9 comments

For all the saints, who from their labors rest,
Who Thee by faith before the world confessed,
Thy Name, O Jesus, be forever blessed.
Alleluia, Alleluia! Continue reading →

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Happy Day of Fall Festivities!

Posted on 31.Oct.05 by | 6 comments

We hope you have fun celebrating whatever you celebrate or don’t on this last day of October. Our church and friends aren’t doing anything special and Kate’s not permitted to eat candy by her mean mom, so we’ll take that as an excuse to bow out of celebrating this year. I predict an evening of curling up with the first season of House on DVD, awaiting us at the public library…

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Kiddie TV

Posted on 18.Oct.05 by | 23 comments

Before I got pregnant, Kate watched a Baby Einstein or two a week. Not quite the AAP recommendation of no TV under age two, but not very much at all. Then, I got pregnant and sick and she started watching television regularly. Even though I let Kate watch TV (which she really likes), I still have principles. Continue reading →

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We Love to Hate It

Posted on 16.Oct.05 by | 1 comment

Check out Jib-Jab’s latest — Big Box Mart.

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Got Soul?

Posted on 11.Oct.05 by | 4 comments

I had a discussion yesterday with a few college students about the classic Soul of the 60s and 70s. Soul is such a universal genre. I know few people of any generation who loathe Soul. It’s just good fun. What’s your favorite Soul classic?

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Pelagianism and the Pearls

Posted on 02.Oct.05 by | 11 comments

This week there’s been some buzz this week in the Christian blogosphere about the Pearls and their theology. I have *mostly* avoided them on account of the few things I have read or encountered from their ministry striking me wrong. Anyhow, Tulipgirl sums up some of the problems nicely with links and all here. After studying church history, its amazing to me to see how the same heresies cycle back century after century. There is nothing new under the sun, indeed.

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