tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5120162347210216802024-02-07T13:47:34.792-05:00By The BrookChronicles of a Catholic mom, wife, lawyer, professor, daughter, sister, mentor, boss, and employee embarked on the perilous journey PAST 40Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.comBlogger477125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-13365993692740595172010-08-22T08:30:00.000-04:002010-08-22T08:53:06.362-04:00Remember me?Long time no blog! For the dozen or so of you who read this regularly, mea culpa...but most of you know what I've been up to courtesy of Facebook. Beloved: still in the Middle EastPrincess: 16, sweet, still dating the nice drummer boy, who is headed to college for pre-med studies. A few months ago, she decided she'd had enough of the Peyton Place of a CINO high school she goes to, fought a tough Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-90568075844128942702010-02-13T10:46:00.002-05:002010-02-13T10:53:04.969-05:00I'm alive!!!Hello friends -I have not forsaken you! I have been busy (as you facebook people can attest) and have had so little time to get through a day, let alone blog about anything that you all haven't all said better than I could. :) Having the Blackberry has made facebook - which I swore I would not use - the easiest way to communicate the daily triumphs and tragedies of life in my corner of the Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-35958032366115214602009-12-08T12:11:00.004-05:002009-12-08T12:22:20.858-05:00Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!Checking in from my mostly computerless existence...hope you are all doing well and are virus-free. All is going along nicely in our little corner of nowhere, HM is pleased with the current Princess situation, so there hasn't been much to post about. I was rather stunned to find this nice little article about today's Feast Day on the mainstream AOL feed. How in the world did that make it past Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-5485501948306766432009-11-29T00:09:00.002-05:002009-11-29T00:12:13.640-05:00Preparing for the Princess and the Permit...(Taylor Swift is so darn cute and funny!)Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-27998992844300780112009-11-11T00:21:00.004-05:002009-11-11T00:28:39.121-05:00Happy Birthday to the USMCBusy day here...masons, car work, speech therapist, dance, and chaperoning for the teenagers...so here's a retro Happy 234th Birthday shout out to the USMC from when I had time to assemble long posts last year, and a big THANK YOU to all our Veterans....please please please take a moment to pray for those who have fallen while serving our country, all those who have served honorably in our past, Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-58941330948337908012009-11-04T09:27:00.003-05:002009-11-04T09:30:27.844-05:00Devil Dogs......have their tender spots, especially for our four legged friends! I love this story!!!Ooh Rah!!!Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-60555657246608222932009-11-03T13:13:00.005-05:002009-11-03T15:16:14.932-05:00HMD #39 - Dusting off the RotorsYes! HeloMom lives...Well, even as the continuing scarcity of time to post persists, the amount of activity here at the hangar has picked up again.Updates:Athlete continues to carry a torch from afar, but has bungled matters beyond repair. More on that in a minute.Westley, the Beautiful Stranger, has made his long-term intentions known. He leaves December 1st for boot camp. He acknowledges that Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-63834395487958542972009-11-03T09:03:00.003-05:002009-11-03T09:06:46.409-05:00Lest we forgetThey still hate us.Just sayin'.Hard to "dialogue" when someone's been charged with reaping your infidel's head, or a least knifing you or beating you until you're bedridden and (better yet) "lose one of your senses."Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-91546549692745263992009-10-21T21:11:00.003-04:002009-10-21T21:15:42.638-04:00Another Note to the Little BoyDear Little Boy,I know that you are very excited about the new, huge 2-year molars that you have coming in at the moment. They open up entirley new vistas and avenues of culinary possibilities.But could you please stop reaching back to feel them as they poke through? Because in all honesty, I'm kinda tired of cleaning up vomit.Thanks for your consideration.I love you,MammaKithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-3435009613627662692009-10-18T19:03:00.003-04:002009-10-18T19:08:44.580-04:00Happy Birthday!!!Our little Therese is 12 today. She spent her birthday weekend babysitting so I could watch the Princess cheer at her last football home game, going to vounteer at a food pantry, attending another friend's party, (insisting that she did not want to have a party of her own, and would rather have dinner out at her favorite diner and be with "just the family" with a simple home-made cake) and is Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-25099450631323069172009-10-09T07:58:00.005-04:002009-10-09T08:26:41.661-04:00THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE???ARE YOU [EXPLETIVE] KIDDING ME?!?Between this and Al Gore, my theory that a peace prize given in the name of the inventor of dynamite is no longer ironic...it's friggin' ridiculous.Bono deserved it more than either of these two clowns.Trying to "open up dialogue with the Muslim world?" Has that been helpful? That's up there with the dress Michelle Obama wore to the CMOH ceremony for Sgt. Jared Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-42388002671394951942009-10-09T01:17:00.000-04:002009-10-08T16:18:35.995-04:00One to tug at the heartstrings...The photo is both priceless and heartbreaking....Little Girl Can't Let go as Sergeant Daddy Leaves For Iraq - ParentDishKithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-21331137328115258662009-10-08T16:22:00.000-04:002009-10-08T16:22:29.936-04:00SANCTE PATER: THE Z-TEAM!LOLOLOL!!!!! One of Vincenzo's finest!!!!!SANCTE PATER: THE Z-TEAM!Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-57411616126867059552009-10-08T14:30:00.003-04:002009-10-08T14:44:27.499-04:00Fall-ing...I don't know about you, but around here in the middle of nowhere, NY we had a cool, rainy, cruddy summer and the fall isn't much better. Yesterday we had a wind advisory, and just as we were about to hit our leaf peak....lost a lot of leaves. And a few branches, one of which (from a massive 100-foot pine or spruce in our yard) narrowly missed a neighbor's car. Whew!Inside the domestic church, Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-83498719650127014272009-10-05T00:36:00.004-04:002009-10-05T00:51:59.232-04:00Feast of St. FrancisWell, it's a bit late in the evening, but I was reflecting with the girlies earlier about how it's been five years since we were climbing the hills and trudging the beautiful cobbled streets of Assissi, watching all the processions and even sneaking into the Basilica at the tail-end of Mass...getting lost but then gloriously found when we finally reached St. Clare's abbey...what an experience! Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-68394699236373691542009-09-22T13:23:00.004-04:002009-09-22T13:38:15.839-04:00Well now, this is an interesting question...Should Ted Kennedy have been denied funerial rites? Hmmm....I see it from both sides, inasmuch as Mr. Kennedy took a very prominent, anti-Catholic position on pivotal issues such as abortion, sterilization based population control and healthcare, and same-sex "marriage." However, because we who are reading (and writing) about this simply cannot know the extent or nature of his private Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-41713906239365329922009-09-20T10:37:00.006-04:002009-09-20T11:36:43.113-04:00HMD #38 - I'm ba-a-a-a-ack.....Remember me? Yes, the HeloMom is still without her laptop (a hard business for a late-night, before-bed authoress..my library downstairs is a fishbowl and so darn cold at night!) but a new school year is upon us and there is much to discuss. So I'm sitting downstairs at the desktop because I love...and because I decided to go to cheater Mass at 5 and have some free time on my hands. :)Anyhoo.....Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-4890572942332318932009-09-18T23:23:00.000-04:002009-09-18T23:23:00.937-04:00In MemoriamAnother act of selflessness and sacrifice by one of our brave soldiers, whose heartbroken dad will receive his posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor. Read through the article (link below) to you get to the part about his dining room table. That's what true goodness and everyday heroism is about.Thank you Sgt. Monti.Requiescat in Pace.Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-231109648355547242009-09-18T15:20:00.002-04:002009-09-18T15:23:17.628-04:00Back from the brink...Anyone still out there? :(Still laptopless, so not a lot of time or availability to post until today, because the new desktop is here - at last! So I have been confined to the Blackberry for the most part since d-day. I have resolved to wait until the new WIndows program comes out to get a new laptop, so will be borrowing one for the time being. Just sayin' - I will catch up with you all over Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-5234390202706166792009-09-04T00:37:00.003-04:002009-09-04T00:41:44.950-04:00I H8 TECHNOLOGY!!!Spent the past few days laptopless...so, my savvy compatrots, should I replace motherboard or just say eff-it and start anew?Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-37478581521184238362009-08-31T15:26:00.005-04:002009-08-31T15:33:16.540-04:00Oh...say it ain't so, Bishop Martino!I am inexpressibly sad to learn that Bishop Martino of Scranton has resigned. This article is infuriating - Teddy Kennedy was a more prominent Catholic figure than our Bishops, true, but somehow the author seems to imply or equate prominence with moral authority. And while the author hints at a divide with the Vatican and Bp. Martino, where's the explanation?I'm just sick at heart. I need a Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-45008433177142841292009-08-30T23:57:00.000-04:002009-08-30T23:57:00.246-04:00Oh yeah, about TeddyAs with the Michael Jackson saga, I've kept the tv off throughout the Ted Kennedy coverage. I have always had very strong (and negative) feelings about how he has conducted his personal and political life, and yet...there's something about that flawed family that has always made me feel sorry for them. So here's an article containing the text of his letter to the Pope and the response he Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-71234090114899963662009-08-30T14:21:00.003-04:002009-08-30T14:52:15.273-04:00Another week gone by......but fear not, we are still here! Some technical difficulties around here with a new computer and an additional laptop trying to become part of the family wireless network. New desktop computer: replaces the one we've had since before moving to this middle of nowhere place in December of 2003. Additional laptop:The Beloved is home! For 13 days, but hey - a man's gotta have his technology. Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-2273519677197481442009-08-21T11:49:00.003-04:002009-08-21T12:00:05.590-04:00You bought it....and you broke it.The faith of the American people, that is. According to reports this morning, The One is experiencing a dip in the polls. I wonder if the "I inherited this mess" blame game/press conference will make the evening news...Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-512016234721021680.post-67205486133074344952009-08-21T00:48:00.005-04:002009-08-21T00:55:08.987-04:00Shhhhhhh!!!!!!Don't look now...but I have NOTHING on my calendar tomorrow after 12 pm, Saturday is clear, and there's no cheerleading practice on Sunday. Please, dear Lord...let us be activity and disaster-free for those 60 precious hours...I hit the $5 movie rack at Target again...this is becoming a sickness...but I got "Rebecca" with my secret childhood romantic idol...Sir Laurence Olivier.Can't wait!!!Kithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.com1