Visiting Francis

Last Sunday we went out to the Cemetery for a little visit.

Jump Around

A couple weeks ago Bobbins and the girls went to one of those indoor trampoline jumping places, where you pay $6 for an hour of running and jumping.  The girls and Bobbins all tried the harness jumping.

 The girls took these two photos of their mom.

Pop Tarts

Time

B16 Resigns

A couple of people at work asked me about it, even saying they were sorry.  Not sure why.  Like a lot of people, I was surprised by the news yesterday.  Kind of sad but not despondent or heartbroken.  Just a tinge of loss.  A number of the reactions have welcomed his departure while others -- particularly from my side, the orthodox -- were disheartened.  My colleague who I ride in with met him and had her marriage blessed by him in '05.  She was pretty bummed.  Ross Douthat had good points from both sides.  My only main thought was how tough it was for B16 to replace one of the greatest pontiffs there ever was, John Paul II.  Talk about big shoes.  No matter what Benedict did he would be seen within that very large shadow.

Not looking forward to the press coverage of the upcoming election, which will treat it like a US presidential contest as much as a horserace.  It's not conservatives vs. liberals vying in some type of political match; it's the Holy Spirit acting through men of God to find the Servant of the Servants of God.

So God Made a Liberal . . .

Nice riff on the Paul Harvey/Dodge Super Bowl ad.

Shiner

JoJo got into her first neighborhood fight tonight.  Haha, actually her sister was playing with the Dog's leash, whipping it around with the metal part at the end, and it met JoJo's face perilously close to her eye...