First of all, I don’t know the man in the photo. This was taken on January 16, 2009, as I sat in a waiting area of Terminal 3 in Pearson International Airport. Not that I didn’t care to know his name, you understand. It was fairly impossible to do that, given that this very thick [...]
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In Ordinary Time
Posted in Family, Service, tagged mothers, Service on January 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Home Sweet-smelling Home
Posted in Cooking, Family, Service, tagged baking, Children, Family, homemade, pirojki on April 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Our home smells amazingly good right now. I finished baking these potato pies called pirojki, the recipe of which I got from the blog of Farida, a very personable young mother from Azerbaijan. I had my children kind of roaming around earlier, hoping for some of the pies. I let them each [...]
There Snow Place Like Home
Posted in Family, Service, tagged Family, home, Service on March 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There are piles and mounds of the white stuff all over the place: in front of houses, in backyards, on the sidewalks, parking lots and on the sides of the roads. I spent about two hours in total yesterday shoveling the stuff off the ground into ever-growing mounds of old snow which is [...]
Slightly Random Musings on a Sunday Afternoon
Posted in Faith, Family, Service, tagged Children, ordinary, Sunday on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two hours ago, my feet were icy cold. As I compose this blog entry, I am in our basement trying to stay warm in an old, grey sweater (my kids say it looks like a bathrobe….I think it looks chic…..) and someone’s thick, beige socks (definitely NOT chic). I say “someone” because no [...]
Needed: A Conversion of the Heart
Posted in Service on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MercatorNet.com’s latest newsletter features an article by Mr. Oskari Juurikkala, a gentleman trained in economics and law, and currently working in mining and finance. It talks mostly about the current global financial situation, so maybe you already know a lot about it from having read the newspaper or Internet news updates on the same. [...]
Love is Deeds
Posted in Children, Life, Service on February 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have a girls’ cooking club we run from our home once a month. My friend and I started it in December of 2003 with five girls. Tomorrow, we have about 13 girls coming over, between the ages of 8 to 13, and we will be making chocolates. Before we do that, [...]
Dough Therapy
Posted in Cooking, Family, Service on January 16, 2008 | 7 Comments »
This afternoon, I engaged in some dough therapy. There is something very comforting and relaxing about handling dough. Yes! The very act of cutting in the cold bits of butter into the flour and salt is an exercise in stress release. Then you slowly sprinkle in the cold water and bring [...]
The Hidden Life
Posted in Faith, Life, Service on January 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Perhaps you have heard about that miracle that happened a long time ago — the one of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes? Jesus had been teaching a very large crowd of about 5,000 men, not counting the women and children. Amazingly, no one had thought of bringing any food with them. [...]
Once in a Blue Moon
Posted in Service on December 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Only three more days left until Christmas day, and where do I find myself on this Saturday? The lower level of Sears in the toy department, looking around for possibilities. (Yes, I really have to work on this procrastination business…….) The whole store, not to mention the mall, was packed with people. [...]
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