My nickname is kelly. I'm a 40yr old mom of two beautiful little girls, two guinea pigs and a hamster(Rocky)~ICU nurse~cancer survivor~recovering addict~ex-smoker~living
in Calgary, Alberta.....
.... or...
just another sheep searching for the meaning of life and everlasting
happiness....
bahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
When i find it i'll be sure to let you know though ;)~~~~~~~~
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Currently i don't know if i'm going to maintain
my blog on a daily basis but i am going to blog ACC (cancer) updates - the
original reason for creating my webpage and blog. *Hugs* to my friends and i wish
anyone looking for information about cancer on behalf of themselves or friends
and family all the best on your journey. ~kelly sXe
"With happy
thoughts,
faith and trust and
a sprinkling of fairy dust"
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Monday, December 02, 2002
It's beginning to look a lot like xmas... laaa lalala laaaa...finally. Not that i've been wanting it to. It's been an unbelievably mild November. :) We're getting some snow now though. We'd better get a white xmas. Hell it's the only reason i put up with this crappy weather 365 days a year so on that one day i can have snow... :P
We went to church yesterday. Hard to believe but true nevertheless. Not only that it's the second time in a month. And no one died or got married. It's hard to believe we could turn into one of those get all dressed up for church then go for breaky type families but it's lookin that way.
I've had my oldest daughter in the catholic school system since kindergarten. I'm not catholic but my husband is so we can go the catholic route if we want. I'd say i did it partly because i grew up with religious education in school in England and i want my kids to experience a similar upbringing... partly so they have some sort of spiritual guidance throughtout their lives... and partly because i'd heard good things about the catholic school system.
Half the time i don't know what to believe... i wish i did because i think life is easier and more fulfilling for those people that have a strong faith in a higher power. When i grew up in England it was still okay to have religious instruction and a few simple prayers in the public schools. It was nothing major... just the Lord's Prayer in the morning during assembly and a few classes relating bible stories.
My parents called themselves atheists for a long time... they've been calling themselves agnostic more recently and now they are old they just call themselves scared... lol. Anyway, i digress... the point was that my 9 yr old now wants to be baptized. We never got around to it because i would have had to arrange it all myself and i never thought it was that important... quite honestly i can't believe that G*d would punish my kids if they died just because i never baptized them. Also it's not so easy to get them baptized when you are not affiliated with any church.
It was my atheist parents that finally got the ball rolling amazingly enough. They found out what we had to do and where we had to go to have her baptized catholic. Well let me tell ya we are wishing we'd done it when she was born now cause it's not so easy by the time they are 9. She has to go to weekly classes for 5mos i think it is. Still we thought kewl... drop her off once a week for a couple hours... get some water thrown on her at the end of 5mos... piece of cake... NOT.
That's not exactly how it works... half the classes are parented... which means we have to go as well... *groooooooan*. In addition, the homework she gets every week is such that if you don't go to church you won't be able to complete it... *double grooooooooan*. These catholics are not stupid... they know how to get you to church. So that's how we've ended up in church and how we'll probably continue going. And if we keep going for breaky after church i'll be taggin along cause there's nothing i like more than breaky out. :)
susi
10:07 AM
"I have heard it all my life,
A voice calling a name i recognized as my own.
Sometimes it comes as a soft bellied whisper.
Sometimes it holds an edge of urgency.
But always it says:
Wake up my love.
You are walking asleep.
There's no safety in that."
- -- Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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You're capable of such
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