tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008690844007479262024-03-13T00:39:11.886-05:00Actions Speak LouderA blog stating actions speak more loudly than words. Go figure.Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.comBlogger202125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-55988253549159194422012-07-16T18:21:00.000-05:002012-07-16T18:21:31.581-05:00New blog, new look (Home Run Derby info, too!)I have not posted lately because I did not particularly want to pay Google $5 for more photo space.<br />
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I have moved my blog to:<br />
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or, you can click here <a href="http://mothercrab.wordpress.com">GREATEST BLOG IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE</a> and it may link to my blog. Or, you may end up on StLouisCatholic. Or Spoonlighting. Take your chances!Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-40798805629720916332012-06-24T10:47:00.000-05:002012-06-24T10:47:30.441-05:00Saying good-bye to friendsBlogger decided it hated me and wouldn't let me post any more photos as I had reached my limit (as in 14 schnitzengruben is my limit kind of limit). Hence, my lack of posting. I am better with pictures than with words.<br />
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However, in the course of one month I will have said good-bye to 3 very dear friends who are moving on to new adventures. It is always difficult to say good-bye, especially when one of the farewells may be forever. I have regrets that I didn't spend more time with these people, that I didn't do more for them. But, what can I do now? I suppose all I can do is pray, spend quality time with the friends who are still here, and scour the web for friendship quotations...<br />
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<blockquote>In human life nothing holier can be desired, nothing more useful sought after, nothing is harder to find, nothing sweeter to experience, nothing more fruitful to possess than friendship. For it bears fruit both in this life and the next, showing forth all virtues in its sweetness and in its strength destroying vice. It softens the blows of adversity and moderates elation in prosperity.<br />
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Without friendship there can be hardly any happiness among humans; they may well be compared to animals if they have no one to rejoice with them in good fortune or sympathize with them in sorrow, no one to whom they can unburden themselves in time of trouble, or with whom they can share some especially uplifting or inspiring insight.<br />
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Alas for anyone who is alone and has no one to lift him up when he falls. Without a friend one is indeed alone. But what joy it is, what security, what a delight to have someone to whom you dare to speak as to another self; to whom you are not afraid to admit that you have done something wrong, or shy of revealing some spiritual progress you have made; someone to whom you can entrust all the secrets of your heart and with whom you can share your plans.<br />
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St. Aelred of Rievaulx</blockquote>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-18049953147512737732012-06-21T11:56:00.001-05:002012-06-21T23:50:25.403-05:00Blessed<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center"><em>Now it's perfect.</em></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-46646476723946924072012-05-08T10:20:00.000-05:002012-05-08T10:20:46.944-05:00Life With Boys - 3 thumbsMy <a href="http://spoonlighting.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/in-which-i-go-to-florida-try-oysters-for-the-first-time-and-get-my-bronze-on/">daughter</a> made dinner last night and that same son who says things like "thrice" looked at her and said, "You know what I would do if I had 3 thumbs?"
"Uh, no, what?"
"I would wish for another so I could give your food 4 thumbs up!"Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-9383508419378005832012-05-01T12:42:00.001-05:002012-05-01T12:42:41.264-05:00Life With BoysMy kids were milling about the house. Exasperated, I looked at them and said, "Kids, go play and use your imagination!"
My engineer-ish son looked at me and said, "I used my imagination twice today and it got me nowhere."Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-30955327252449585442012-04-18T22:04:00.000-05:002012-04-18T22:04:48.226-05:00Happy Birthday to my favorite radio personalityYou are in our prayers on this special day. May your day end with Kakao chocolate!Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-86849314849315679752012-04-14T11:48:00.000-05:002012-04-14T11:48:14.519-05:00Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass at St. Francis de Sales Oratory<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUoJMuuAH6B6k-KONjIDrLgo3OyCLUQ2I0o2CxpRD5vdc0roNUn2a119lskJwtA-aJJRRb5QZZY7esAhT1Yt8i0yh0io6SFZsUEml6rJbkvwHpRzRwMcPXHziUKYLK6bDkuIzmlxzc-jg/s1600/Rubens+Resurrection.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUoJMuuAH6B6k-KONjIDrLgo3OyCLUQ2I0o2CxpRD5vdc0roNUn2a119lskJwtA-aJJRRb5QZZY7esAhT1Yt8i0yh0io6SFZsUEml6rJbkvwHpRzRwMcPXHziUKYLK6bDkuIzmlxzc-jg/s1600/Rubens+Resurrection.jpg" /></a></div>For your listening pleasure I am providing a link to the music from the Easter mass at St. Francis de Sales Oratory on April 8, 2012. What you will hear is a beautiful rendition of Haydn's Mass in D Minor, also called the Lord Nelson Mass, under the direction of Mr. Nick Botkins. <br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/UFamily8" target="_blank">Haydn's Mass in D Minor: Lord Nelson Mass</a><br />
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We were blessed in St. Louis with a perfect day. The weather was just gorgeous and this was a fantastic start to the day! All I ask is that you pretend that the video is just as good as the audio. I have found that this will sound even better if you attach external speakers to your computer.<br />
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Happy Easter!!Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-24927849066946189532012-04-05T15:15:00.000-05:002012-04-05T15:15:30.213-05:00Holy Thursday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjFtP7baoCr1FCFT5qK6ljMVEAtm5xRvESGhFnWaQXtHDnYtig3wW0EX4MmgfXTnrZ1C3NkJrwJzXpCFgPbri3kAllELyvxVK7sdZm6cXjNLAoMdJxU57FPjZ7MxqqOcLtR1pwU4pyMAY/s1600/Side+Altar+during+holy+week.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" nda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjFtP7baoCr1FCFT5qK6ljMVEAtm5xRvESGhFnWaQXtHDnYtig3wW0EX4MmgfXTnrZ1C3NkJrwJzXpCFgPbri3kAllELyvxVK7sdZm6cXjNLAoMdJxU57FPjZ7MxqqOcLtR1pwU4pyMAY/s320/Side+Altar+during+holy+week.png" width="320px" /></a></div>Can you tell I haven't had much to say lately? I am suffering from Blogger's Block. However, I would like to revisit the <a href="http://mothercrab.blogspot.com/2011/04/maundy-thursday.html">post from last year</a> where I taught you a thing or two about Holy Thursday!<br />
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I received another tidbit via email:<br />
On Holy Thursday the kiss of peace is not given at the Solemn High Mass because Holy Mother Church wants to prevent using the sign with which Judas betrayed the Lord on the evening of this day.<br />
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Mother Crab now. That last tidbit led me to look in Dom Gueranger's The Liturgical Year. There I read a couple of more interesting things about Thursday's liturgy.<br />
<em><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvbuM8nbh_J0T7qBVHAyikTnzyMRmVvhRACupzHZ0mrS21q5RP4RrW4paOIfga9fphNbiTlvh4GBmVIJepkctnv3CS9OCHHtoB5TSl-AJsaCXrceeosSxZyNiDvIkYovrw5nGg-7QLWrA/s1600/Side+Altar+Maundy+Thursday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213px" nda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvbuM8nbh_J0T7qBVHAyikTnzyMRmVvhRACupzHZ0mrS21q5RP4RrW4paOIfga9fphNbiTlvh4GBmVIJepkctnv3CS9OCHHtoB5TSl-AJsaCXrceeosSxZyNiDvIkYovrw5nGg-7QLWrA/s320/Side+Altar+Maundy+Thursday.jpg" width="320px" /></a><em>The Mass of Maundy Thursday is one of the most solemn of the year; and although the feast of Corpus Christi is the day for solemnly honouring the mystery of the holy Eucharist, still, the Church, would have the anniversary of the last Supper to be celebrated with all possible splendour. The colour of the vestments is white, as it is for Christmas day and Easter Sunday; the decorations of the altar and sanctuary all bespeak joy, and yet, there are several ceremonies during this Mas which show that the holy bride of Christ has not forgotten the Passion of her Jesus, and that this joy is but transient. The priest entones the angelic hymn, Glory be to God in the hightest! and the bells ring forth a joyous peal, which continues during the whole of the heavenly canticle: but from that moment they remain silent, and their long silence produces, in every heart, a sentiment of holy mournfulness. But why does the Church deprive us, for so many hours of, the grand melody of these sweet bells, whose voices cheer us during the rest of the year? It is to show us that this world lost all its melody and joy when its Saviour suffered and was crucified. Moreover, she would hereby remind us, how the apostles (who were the heralds of Christ, and are figured by the bells, whose ringing summons the faithful to the house of God), fled from their divine Master and left Him a prey to His enemies.</em><em><br />
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If you are learning all of this for the <strike>first</strike> second time, welcome to my club.Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-46405950627180677752012-03-13T09:35:00.001-05:002012-03-13T09:37:36.496-05:00The Institute of Christ the King in GabonCanon Michael Stein was recently installed as the new Curé of his parish in Libreville, Gabon! You can see the photos of the Solemn Pontifical mass with Archbishop Basile Mvé <a href="http://www.icrsp.org/IMAGES-APOSTOLATS/Images-2012/Apostolats/Libreville-installation%20-cure/Page-initiale.htm">here</a>. And, even better, you can see our dear Msgr. Schmitz with a beard.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My son said to Canon Stein, "Let's take a picture feeling our beards!"<br />
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</tbody></table>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-62843235424718851202012-02-13T19:29:00.000-06:002012-02-13T19:29:00.554-06:00Book ClubI am in a bookclub simply because it makes me read books. Otherwise I would remain the pseudo-reader that I became after majoring in English. I suffered from major burn-out and then, well, life got in the way. We just read <u>Sword of Honour</u> by Evelyn Waugh and most of us enjoyed it. There is a great part in the book where the main character, who is Catholic, doesn't speak the language of the local priest so they converse in Latin. Awesome. And, yes, I even understood it! (How? It's a dead language! Phhhttt!)<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">I think this is the book we need to read next:</div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-68939187150836442952012-01-31T21:45:00.001-06:002012-02-01T12:16:19.359-06:00His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke at St. Francis de Sales OratoryTonight at St. Francis de Sales Oratory we had the pleasure of a visit from Cardinal Burke complete with Solemn Benediction and a wonderful reception. I took 235 photos and only have 6 to show you...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Arrival of His Eminence</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vesting</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reception.</td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;">Thank you, Cardinal Burke for visiting us at St. Francis de Sales.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Thank you for all you do for The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Thank you for your dedication to Holy Mother Church.</div>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-53249626645521707002012-01-30T20:18:00.000-06:002012-01-30T20:18:55.559-06:00Preparation and AnticipationThings are definitely in the works for the visit of our beloved Cardinal Burke tomorrow. I sneaked into the church and snapped a couple of pictures of people building and arranging things. I also included a photo of the angel by the St. Joseph Altar just because I think it's beautiful.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now THAT'S a torchbearer!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I don't think the ladder will be there tomorrow. <br />
Or will it?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some people have a way with flowers.<br />
Other people, oh, not have way.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-18792595885051760862012-01-28T16:38:00.003-06:002012-01-28T23:18:05.620-06:00Pontifical Solemn High Mass with His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at all of those beautiful side altars.<br />
I'm not sure if they are used any longer.</td></tr>
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<div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Thanks to the ever-resourceful JJR, I have photos from today's <em>Pontifical Solemn High Mass</em> with Cardinal Burke!</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">The glorious event took place at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, MO with the Institute of Christ the King (which is obvious when you see the blue cassocks worn by our servers!). <br />
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We shall see Cardinal Burke again on January 31st where he will visit us at St. Francis de Sales just as <a href="http://mothercrab.blogspot.com/2011/01/his-eminence-raymond-leo-cardinal-burke.html">he did last year</a>!</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the altar!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think I see another blogger on here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Notice the Cappa Magna.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue Cassocks and Awesome Abbes!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-34601739287301801572012-01-19T14:24:00.000-06:002012-01-19T14:24:16.088-06:007 Lies About Homeschoolers.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xJHt-m3VX6o?rel=0" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">My siblings are my bestest friends.</div>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-23510534610840676622012-01-19T11:46:00.000-06:002012-01-19T11:46:25.639-06:00PW PizzaThere is a restaurant attached to Vin de Set called <a href="http://pwpizza.com/">PW's Pizza</a> and they offer <a href="http://pwpizza.com/our_menu#"><strong>gluten-free</strong> pizza</a>. Their crust isn't as good as <a href="http://spoonlighting.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/but-i-set-fire-to-the-pepper-watched-it-burn-as-i-googled-cookie-recipes/">this one</a>, but 1) I don't have to make it and 2) I get out of the house. Yay!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beer (Zwickel lager) is from the local <a href="http://www.urbanchestnut.com/home">Urban Chestnut Brewery</a>.<br />
Yum.</td></tr>
</tbody></table> From their website:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><u><em>Zwickel, Reverence Series #1: </em></u><br />
<em>Our flagship lager, pronounced ‘zv-ick-el’, is an unfiltered, unpasteurized, German classic that finishes as a smooth-drinking, vitamin rich (from the yeast), naturally cloudy bier. Hops: Hallertau Malts: Two-Row & Pilsner ABV- 5.1%, IBU’s- 19, OG – 11.5 Plato </em></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Popeye and Olive Oil Pizza.<br />
roasted garlic olive oil, spinach, roasted red pepper & goat cheese<br />
It was outstanding. (This one wasn't gluten-free).</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-11397611004142526012012-01-17T17:46:00.000-06:002012-01-17T17:46:01.060-06:00Yum<div style="text-align: center;">I had an outstanding meal 10 days ago. I took photos, but I forgot to post them, so here we are...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Anyway, I wanted to show these photos because the food was exquisite AND delicious AND beautiful AND AND AND. The company and ambiance were wonderful. Really, it was a great evening.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Perhaps we can do this again soon? (Hint, hint!)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am seriously disappointed to see only 20 glasses on the table.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is that a chip I see in the water pitcher?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Where are the handmade dough ornaments?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gaudete Benefit Gala - next year.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Awwwww.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fortunately for us the only ingredient not in this is salmonella.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good ol' St. Nick. :)</td></tr>
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</div>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-9216170658376201032012-01-14T22:36:00.001-06:002012-01-17T20:09:24.988-06:00Life with BoysMy very young son who is finally putting sentences together settled into his bathtub tonight and said,<br />
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"Ah, this is all I need. A boat, a cup, and my duck."Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-49213166056112899592012-01-13T11:05:00.001-06:002012-01-13T11:20:08.791-06:00Oh Christmas TreeSometimes a <a href="http://mothercrab.blogspot.com/2012/01/tree-vs-tree.html">person</a> goes out of town and other people have keys to said <a href="http://mothercrab.blogspot.com/2012/01/tree-vs-tree.html">person's</a> house. And sometimes those people decorate that <a href="http://mothercrab.blogspot.com/2012/01/tree-vs-tree.html">person's</a> house with pictures of themselves.<br />
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Confused? That's why I rarely write and post pictures instead. I talk better through a lens.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey, I recognize this tree. But, it's different somehow.<br />
Oh! It has lots of new angels!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh my! This angel doesn't look very pleased!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's better. We must have practiced.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What could that be up there?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hi-ya! Take that tambourines and guitars!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking chops out of liturgical music abuses!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Really, I'm an angel!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-22788648606083988072012-01-11T11:45:00.000-06:002012-01-11T11:45:00.713-06:00Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO<div style="text-align: center;">Yesterday I took a handful of kids to <a href="http://www.laumeiersculpturepark.org/">Laumeier Sculpture Park</a> as it was 55 degrees! In January!</div><div style="text-align: center;">This beautiful park contains some very impressive works, and some are just downright huge.</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We're off to see the Wizard...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This sculpture is enormous. Some might say ginormous.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Timman, they're watching you!!!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-56532236443787329352012-01-10T22:53:00.000-06:002012-01-10T22:53:23.637-06:00Do not be anxious...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicD8xtZQgPNRyeuj5O4ewekO5ffxfUz_dbg_1fr8FswLvlEALsShSJSkWgrNe74PMH8-h8JkTauOkm50Lj0orcV2HNnYfrPejGRG-qO-2JWRtaL4qc1VPrOtrx_rctTaw-MN-S13M5F1Y/s1600/Baby+blessing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" kba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicD8xtZQgPNRyeuj5O4ewekO5ffxfUz_dbg_1fr8FswLvlEALsShSJSkWgrNe74PMH8-h8JkTauOkm50Lj0orcV2HNnYfrPejGRG-qO-2JWRtaL4qc1VPrOtrx_rctTaw-MN-S13M5F1Y/s320/Baby+blessing.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have a friend whom I've </span><span style="font-size: large;">been praying for. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I hope she sees this...</span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Philippians 4:6-7</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">'Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.'</span></div><br />
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</tbody></table>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-84960625048499123572012-01-05T11:10:00.000-06:002012-01-05T11:10:18.849-06:00Is this kid mine?My 7 year old nonchalantly tossed a Rubik's Cube at me and said, "I just solved this thrice in a row."<br />
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Rubik's Cube?<br />
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Thrice?Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-15920675545203959282012-01-03T09:48:00.000-06:002012-01-03T09:48:17.048-06:00Tree vs. TreeSome people know how to put up a Christmas Tree, some don't. Some know how to put up a tree only to have it fall, some don't.<br />
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For those of you who are in the St. Francis de Sales circle, I want you to guess to whom the following trees belong (no real names, please). One is a first attempt at a tree, one is obviously the millionth.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey, look at the lights I got for next to nothing!<br />
Oh, wait. They're outdoor lights for bushes?<br />
Well, at least my tree is sturdy, thanks to MotherCrab's extra tree stand!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And a <strike>partridge</strike> ornament in a <strike>pear</strike> tree.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nothing says Christmas like 10 million lights, garland and breakable ornaments.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The trick is to put lights up and down each branch, spend 5 days alone decorating,<br />
and forget to tighten the screws in the tree stand sufficiently.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ah, holiday memories!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-38772696483763205832012-01-02T12:02:00.000-06:002012-01-02T12:02:06.150-06:00Life with BoysBefore Christmas my girls were sick.<br />
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After Christmas my boys have been sick.<br />
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The girls make it to the bathroom.<br />
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The boys make it to the kitchen, or worse, living room floor.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here, let me make it easier for you to reach the rug.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Mother Crabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09515138914478228436noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-900869084400747926.post-12055401558854064202011-12-30T12:45:00.000-06:002011-12-30T12:45:46.660-06:00What is sadder than...<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">...a 1/2 full bottle of Chartreuse?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em><strong><u>AN EMPTY ONE!!!!!</u></strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Where's the Chartreuse cow when you need her???</td></tr>
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