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You Get to Pick Your Own Shoes: 7 Quick Takes V

by Kendra | Mar 22, 2013 | 7 Quick Takes, Kendra's Thoughts | 11 Comments

--- 1 --- I have to admit to being a Pope Benedict XVI kinda gal. He's been the Pope for most of the time I've been paying attention. He gave my oldest son his First Holy Communion. He's a writer and a thinker of thoughts. And, like myself, he...

Splenda is to Eating as the Pill is to . . . : 7 Quick Takes IV

by Kendra | Mar 15, 2013 | 7 Quick Takes, Kendra's Thoughts, Lent, Lent, Liturgical Living, Parenting, Parties, Saints, Seasonal | 9 Comments

--- 1 --- Two of my boys can say they were named for a Pope, but only one can say that a Pope was named for him. (Sorry Gus!) When Gus was a toddler, a priest once remarked to me,"If you didn't want him to give you trouble,you probably shouldn't have...