Cathy | February 25, 2009
3. Take-out and eating out in restaurants.
Bless you all for picking the easiest one and not making me give up swearing, gossiping, being negative, or leaving the house. And Jerrad is happy, too, because he secretly loves doing all the errands.
So, here goes 6 weeks of no Taco Bell, no McDonald’s french fries, [...]
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Cathy | February 24, 2009
It just occurred to me that Lent starts tomorrow. Well, I did briefly think about it a few days ago when I said to Jerrad, “Hey if I’m pregnant I don’t have to fast. Sweet!” Not only that, breastfeeding women don’t have to fast either. So, if I am pregnant, I [...]
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Cathy | February 8, 2008
No, not sexual abstinence. Please, I’m Catholic and I didn’t even do that when I was supposed to. Which is why I went to Confession. A lot. But here’s what’s funny. Once there was a “commitment to marriage”, i.e. proposal and engagement ring, the penance for sex seemed to go [...]
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