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Showing posts with label Girls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Girls. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Friday, March 25, 2011
March Newsletter - Spring, Softball, and Sharia
I write this on the first day of spring (March 20th, hence the "March/April" title). Walking Bert today, I see many of our neighbors for the first time since winter started; like sleepy bears coming out of a long hibernation (except these bears are throwing baseballs to each other and sweeping the street while muttering under their breath about how whomever planted the particular type of tree 100 years ago wasn't very thoughtful, given the overabundance of detritus it produces). It's a little shocking that last month had this photo:
This is from an article in "thaIndian.com"
But enough about the weather!Goings on at Crescent Project
As you may recall, Oasis is our three-day conference, held this year in November in Washington D.C.. To get a feeling for it, I'd like to invite you to join me April 2nd (Saturday), from 10:00a - 11:30a at College Park Church. You can click here for more details.
In Chicago at the end of May, is our five-day intensive training, the Sahara Challenge.
Our women's advocacy group is hosting a talk on May 13th as part of the "Can you see me?" series to teach about social justice for women in the Muslim world. While I'd love to say, I'll see you there, I don't think I'm allowed to go.
As you may recall, I'm at Crescent Project two days a week. I'm working hard to learn the ropes; diving into the computer and financial systems while helping to hire an assistant for the president.
The Mitchells
Maddie is volunteering at Habitat for Humanity over spring break, and got a stellar report card this quarter. Molly just started softball (and track and field, for that matter), which meant a trip to Dick's at 9pm to buy cleats (since her feet are embarrassingly differently sized, we attempted to buy a mis-matched pair but the cashier insisted on giving us a second pair of shoes for free...I'm still not sure if she made a mistake or was just being nice. I find it best not to ask too many questions in these situations).
Monday, February 15, 2010
Love me Tender
Maddie's Choir sent "singing valentines" last Friday...
 | From: Cathedral Choir Room |
| 2/12/10 5:25 PM | |
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Maddie to Speak at Hall of Fame Dinner
Received today via e-mail:
Look who made it to the CHS parent e-mail. You got to love those OLL grads! pass this on to Courtney and Kerion and tell them how proud they must be of Maddie and pass on a congratulations to Maddie!
Monday, January 25, 2010
Molly's Volleyball Game Schedule
| Game # | Team 1 | Team 2 | Schedule Information | ||||||||
| 1 | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1N | St. Roch League:56 A Division:1N |
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| Game # | Team 1 | Team 2 | Schedule Information | ||||||||
| 2 | St. Susanna League:56 A Division:1N | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1N |
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| 3 | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1N | St. Christopher League:56 A Division:1N |
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| 4 | St. Michael Indy League:56 A Division:1N | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1N |
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| 5 | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1N | St. Mark--A League:56 A Division:1N |
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| 6 | St. Lawrence League:56 A Division:1N | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1N |
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| 7 | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1N | OL Greenwood League:56 A Division:1N |
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
The Mitchells Play The Priest Game
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Molly's Basketball Schedule
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| From Glenda Wedding & Lisa Lori Lake |
Click here to see Molly's Basketball Schedule (she is proud to be on the "A" team). Oh, and yes, this picture has nothing to do with basketball. Sue me. She's sitting with Sam.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Molly's kickball schedule
| | CYO 2009 Girls' Grade School Fall Kickball Leagues Season Schedule
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| Game # | Team 1 | Team 2 | Schedule Information | ||||||||||
| 1 | Nativity | Our Lady of Lourdes |
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| 2 | Our Lady of Lourdes | Holy Name |
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| 3 | Holy Spirit Indy | Our Lady of Lourdes |
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| 4 | Our Lady of Lourdes | Little Flower |
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| Game # | Team 1 | Team 2 | Schedule Information | ||||||||||
| 5 | St. Michael Greenfield | Our Lady of Lourdes |
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| 6 | Our Lady of Lourdes | St. Simon |
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| 7 | Our Lady of Lourdes | St. Lawrence |
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| 8 | Nativity | Our Lady of Lourdes |
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* = intra-divisional game
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Monday, April 06, 2009
Molly's Kickball Schedule
 | CYO 2009 Girls Spring Kickball Season Season Schedule
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| Game # | Team 1 | Team 2 | Schedule Information | ||||||||
| 1 | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1 | St. Luke League:56 A Division:1 |
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| 2 | St. Malachy League:56 A Division:1 | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1 |
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| 3 | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1 | St. Christopher League:56 A Division:1 |
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| 4 | St. Jude League:56 A Division:1 | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1 |
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| 5 | OL of Greenwood League:56 A Division:1 | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1 |
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| 6 | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1 | Mount Carmel League:56 A Division:1 |
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| Game # | Team 1 | Team 2 | Schedule Information | ||||||||
| 7 | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1 | St. Susanna League:56 A Division:1 |
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| 8 | Our Lady of Lourdes League:56 A Division:1 | OL of Greenwood League:56 A Division:1 |
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Friday, November 28, 2008
S.O.S. - Abba
Why not a shot of Abba? Enjoy. [edit: 9/30/09: That cat on her dress scares me.]
Apropos of nothing - The girls and I went down to the circle this evening. I haven't been in such a crush of humanity since New Year's Eve in Times Square! They lit a giant "Christmas Tree".
Sunday, November 02, 2008
An update on the fan-damily
An update on the fan-damily:
Molly: Is playing basketball like a fiend (she had a game today, but missed the 8am practice on Saturday (I wonder why??)). Her coach is a bit of a hard a**, but the girls aren't complaining about him, and she's getting good exercise.
Maddie: Doesn't seem to be reading as much as before, but is spending a lot of time with friends, and is texting over 5,000 messages a month. She went to a birthday party at Jockamo's pizza today.
Courtney: Is starting a new job (still within the Catholic Center) on Monday. It's in the "recruitment" department for Priests.
Kieron: I'm no longer a ChaCha guide. I'm now a ChaCha expediter (I clean up, then categorize incoming questions). At $0.03 a question, I might make $3.00 an hour. I'M A SWEAT SHOP WORKER!
Saturday, October 04, 2008
APPLICATION TO DATE MY DAUGHTER and Daddy's Rules for Dating
I thought for sure I had posted this before. I've certainly seen it...but I find it very funny, so I share:
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APPLICATION TO DATE MY DAUGHTER
NOTE: This application will be incomplete and rejected unless accompanied by a complete financial statement, job history, lineage, and current medical report from your doctor.
NAME__________________________
HEIGHT___________ WEIGHT____________ IQ__________
BOY SCOUT RANK AND BADGES________________________
HOME ADDRESS_______________________
POSTCODE______
Do you have parents? ___Yes ___No
Is one male and the other female? ___Yes ___No
If No, explain:
______________________________
______________________________
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Number of years they have been married ______________________________
If less than your age, explain
______________________________
ACCESSORIES SECTION:
A. Do you own or have access to a van? __Yes __No
B. A truck with oversized tires? __Yes __No
C. A waterbed?
D. A pickup with a mattress in the back? __Yes __No
E. A tattoo?
F. Do you have an earring, nose ring, __Yes __No
pierced tongue, pierced cheek or a belly button ring?
(IF YOU ANSWERED 'YES' TO ANY OF THE ABOVE, DISCONTINUE APPLICATION
AND LEAVE PREMISES IMMEDIATELY. I SUGGEST RUNNING.)
ESSAY SECTION:
In 50 words or less, what does 'LATE' mean to you?
______________________________
____________________ ______________________________
In 50 words or less, what does 'DON'T TOUCH MY DAUGHTER' mean to you?
______________________________
______________________________
In 50 words or less, what does 'ABSTINENCE' mean to you?
______________________________
______________________________
REFERENCES SECTION:
Church you attend ______________________________
How often you attend ______________________________
When would be the best time to interview your:
Father?;_____________
Mother?_____________
Priest? _____________
SHORT-ANSWER SECTION:
Answer by filling in the blank. Please answer freely, all answers are
confidential.
A: If I were shot, the last place I would want shot would be:
______________________________
B: If I were beaten, the last bone I would want broken is my:
______________________________
C: The one thing I hope this application does not ask me about is:
______________________________
D. What do you want to be IF you grow up?
______________________________
F: When I meet a girl, the thing I always notice about her first is:
______________________________
G: What is the current going rate of a hotel room?
__________________________
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Your Signature
______________________________
Mother's Signature
______________________________
Priest
______________________________
Notary Public
Thank you for your interest, and it had better be genuine and non-sexual.
You will be contacted in writing if you are approved. Please do not try to call or write.
To prepare yourself in case you are approved, start studying Daddy's Rules for Dating:
Daddy's Rules for Dating
Your dad's rules for your boyfriend (or for you if you're a guy):
Rule One: If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.
Rule Two:
You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them.
Rule Three:
I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.
Rule Four:
I'm sure you've been told that in today's world sex without utilizing a 'Barrier method' of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.
Rule Five:
It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is: 'early.'
Rule Six:
I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.
Rule Seven:
The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool, places where there is darkness, places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness.
Rule Eight:
Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dim-witted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a tomahawk, a shovel, and a quarter acre behind the house. Do not trifle with me.
Friday, September 26, 2008
The Culture is Sliding into the Crapper
When I first had children, I had this idea that I wouldn't take them to McDonald's (since it isn't really the healthiest of foods, and it just reminds me of the more-tattoos-than-teeth crowd letting their children drink coke from a baby bottle). I held out for about a week-and-a-half, and then we were feeding a smilingbabymaddie french fries.
My next bastion of virtue was cell phones. There was NO WAY my pre-teen was going to trundle about with a cell phone. You know that one fell. I now have a ten-year-old with a cell phone. WHY DOES A TEN-YEAR-OLD NEED A CELL PHONE??
I guess I should be asking MYSELF that question, since I was intimately involved with the decision.
These things just seem to slip in...and slip by. They seem like the right decision at the time. But stepping back and looking at it from a high level; something is amiss. I mean, I didn't even fight very hard. I guess it isn't important.
I think that's part of the reason the culture is sliding into the crapper. No one individual decision "is very important". Taken as a whole, however...where does it end?
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Molly's Injury and Cell Phone
Molly is limping due to a sprained ankle from kickball, and she just got stung on the bottom of her OTHER foot (while cleaning out her hamster cage). She wants to hop on the "good" foot, but that ankle is sprained.
Picture to be posted later (if we can get her new cell phone to work). Oh, and lest you think it is RIDICULOUS for a 10-year old to have a cell phone, we intend to turn off our land line, and it satisfies my anal-retentive side for each family member to thus have their own separate cell phone (and voice mail). It seems somehow "right".
Monday, August 18, 2008
Maddie's Website Hits Exceeds Mine
Maddie just sent me this e-mail:
haha!! i officially have more visitors than you!!!
you-8855
me-8869
Best,
Maddie
Check out my website!!
http://maddiesbooklist.webs.com/
Monday, August 11, 2008
Welcome to Irvington, Kerry
Last night my family and another went to a local Mexican restaurant. There were ten of us, so they put us outside.
My girls sat down first, and apparently next to a table with a couple guys and a girl who had been there for awhile, drinking, and dropping the f-bomb.
The management asked them to leave, and when they found out it was (at least in part) due to the fact they were cursing in front of the (newly arrived) children, they got pretty angry, and the curse words really started to fly...including m*therf*er.
As they walked out, they turned to Maddie and Molly, and said "F*ck you, B*itches".
Welcome to Irvington, Kerry.
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