Requiescat in pace

I'm sure all of you have heard it on the radio, or read it in a newspaper or on the internet, but today, Terri Schiavo passed away. I cannot express enough my sorrow at her passing, nor my shame that as Americans we continually do not defend those who need it the most.

Eternal rest grant unto her, oh Lord,
And let perpetual light shine upon her!
May her soul and the souls of all the faithful departed
through the mercy of God rest in peace,
Amen!

It is officially...

Not Lent anymore! Huzzah! I had an extremely wonderful lenten season this year, and was able to grow quite a bit in the spiritual aspect of my life. Which is what made the celebration of Easter this year all the more celebratable. But the one of my Easter celebration that I enjoyed most was that the Archbishop of Seattle allowed those of us that attend the Latin indult Mass to have the triduum services in the tridentine rite. I even got to serve at them, and that was thoroughly awesome! So anyway, I hope that you all had as wonderful a Lent and Easter as I did.

Happy Easter

This is the last day that I will be able to get to a computer before Sunday, so Happy Easter one and all!

Some people just have too much time...

I heard about this website while listening to the news on my way to Seattle last night, and decided to have a look at it. This guy has an extremely awesome sense of humor, which I think would fit in fairly well with our gang. My favorite experiment is the one involving the effects of smoking and alcohol. Enjoy!

What a bad author!

I'm terribly sorry that I haven't graced you with my cyberspace presence for awhile, but my actual reallity presence has been required on many fronts these past few weeks. The most important event of which was moving stuff into our new house! Our entire house saga from the begining, when we first decided to split the property, to now, where we are actually getting to move into our new house, has been a long and weariesome process of about three years. The most wearing part, however, has been the last six months during which we've been living in travel trailers while we waited for our house to be installed. But, its now in, and we're getting everything moved in and settled.

A few Saturdays ago(the 5th, to be exact) my brother Alex and I joined fellow YFL'er Christina up at St. Monica's on Mercer Island to help out with a pro-life symposium that was being held there. We ended up babysitting all day, which was about a blast and a half. Most of the little'uns we watched were from a family that had just come over from Ireland, that had three girls and a little boy. The two oldest girls(7 & 5) were the only ones who knew how to talk, and they had the cutest little irish accents, and all the little irish idiosyncracies. They were terribly cute, and needless to say, they pretty much had Alex and I wrapped around their collective little finger by the end of the day.

There were also several woderful speakers that day, and we were able to trade off with the babysitting so we were all able to listen to a few of them. Among them were such like Fr. Peter West of Priests for Life, The director of the local Project Rachel, Camille DeBlasi, and our very own Marie Harkins. Marie gave a very powerful and motivational speech, and that may be considered a biased opinion, except for the fact that her's was the only talk to get a standing ovation. Thats how great it was.

But, I must get off now, as I'm getting ready to leave work! I will try to write more later;)

Yet another house update!

I did it! I slept in our house for the very first time! Although it was in a sleeping bag, and the only furniture in their is our dressers, and we still can't use the tubs or toilets, the fact remains that I slept in the house. It was warm, it was dryi,t was just like a little slice of Heaven. Comparitively speaking that is! But the crew who will be finishing up the work, such as the septic tank, putting on gutters, and touching all the little things should be out there today. The key word here being *Should*. We shall see. And if they are, then that means that we will probably get to finish moving all of our stuff in, and actually start living in there. Huzzah!!!!