If I'm not off hiding somewhere with a good book, chances are I'm chasing a kid or a dog or sleeping, because every mom can use a nap! I found Prince Charming and married him, and now we enjoy the idiosyncrasies of life in an old farmhouse. Oh yeah, and we root for the Buckeyes. Every time.
And you know what? I’m really out of it this year, not really caring about football. I’m struggling to keep up with my life, balancing a few balls in the air, and failing to remember when it’s Saturday and I need to have my game day face on.
When I listened to the interview this week on Catholic Moments, I realized that there’s a name for what I’m suffering, and it’s adultitis. I’m going to have to learn more about that, I think (and it sounds as though the learning will be a fun adventure). In that episode, my Mary Moment is a reflection on the wedding at Cana as I explore a bit about Mary’s title Mother of Divine Providence. (You can read more about that title at my column a few weeks ago at Today’s Catholic Woman.)
So I’m battling being a bad fan and adultitis, but, in the midst of that knowledge (there’s always next year for being a better fan, right?), I have been talking pet challenges and Thanksgiving traditions (or lack of) with a few of my heroes good friends on the Faith & Family Live Cast. That was such a great way to start my day. We all had a cuppa and I hung up feeling as I always do when I’m around the ladies who make the Faith & Family Live community such an oasis for me: refreshed, renewed, ready.
And my latest column is up over at CatholicMom.com: Salon Reflections. This is a sort of tribute to my mother-in-law, inspired by some comments I overheard at the beauty salon.
Now I must go and attend to my day. Here’s hoping your game day (if that’s what this Saturday is to you) and your weekend are full of blessings. 
Sarah, Thanksgiving traditions…when we were first married there were huge expectations from both of our families to participate in the great Thanksgiving perfection marathon and food splurge. Not really a day of family and nurturing but one of tension, too much emphasis on food preparation at the expense of family time, etc. What we had each experienced as kids growing up. After we started to have kids it got worse because for that day (and Christmas) we stopped being parents and became those kids again with all the demands to “be there” and try and male it somehow perfect. It was enough to make Tahiti for Thanksgiving sound awesome. Fortunately my dear wife said “enough!” and we began to do OUR Thanksgiving with our (new) traditions, centered on being thankful. Now, sometimes one or the other child has a conflict with a significant other’s family and we are able to take it in stride because we are reminded to thank God for the gift of each other and our wonderful kids, even the ones who can’t be at the table that day. I hope you and your family have a wonderful, blessed Thansgiving. Mark
Hand in there Sarah. BTDT, sue I will be there again. But of all seasons, this is one to be a little disengaged in spite of going to the Rose Bowl, us upstarts from the SW corner of the State are treading on OSU’s football territory. Of course, the media makes it a bigger “fight” than it really is. I’ve been realliy into football this year between my son playing in his HS band and the Bearcats sucess.