Chronicles of Marnia

I feel a father's day gift coming on...

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I once had a young, but wise friend say to me when we finally meet God face to face and ask "Lord, why did you allow so many people to suffer" God will say, "I was going to ask you the same thing".

Mother Teresa also said "If you can't feed a hundred people, just feed one". I get overwhelmed that I can't feed all the people who need it, but I can feed one. That's my new resolve. Can it be yours too?

Thank you to Curtis for the beautiful way this quote is presented.

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Enjoy!! :)

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I hate mushy junk. I'll just get that out of the way, you can start dealing with it, then we'll move on. Everybody okay now? Great.

Each year, Dane and I pretty much boycott Valentine's Day. It's not that I'm against love, I'm just against the retail explotation of it and the pressure for loved ones feeling like they have to "prove" love with an abundance of red or pink crap I don't need. Besides, Dane treats most days like Valentine's Day by texting me sweet messages while we're at work, rubbing my feet while we watch CSI, clearing the dishes each night since I cooked, and taking care of all the bleh chores I don't like (taking out the trash, feeding the dogs, putting gas in the cars). So given all that, who needs a card in mid-February? Seriously.

To celebrate our anti-Valentine's Day this year, we gutted each of the bedrooms and shampooed the rugs. Then we rearranged Peyton and Lindsay's furniture, cooked a romantic candle lit dinner served on our nicest china and celebrated our family day...with Peyton with us of course (Lindsay was out of town with Uncle Greg and Aunt Stephanie).

All in all, I totally enjoyed our anti-Valentines. We spent some time laughing together (over the fact the between us, we have two college degrees and STILL couldn't figure out how to use a rug shampoo machine until trial and error prevailed). We spent some time all melancholy (watching Wall-E with Peyton) and some time reflecting on how much we all love each other (over plates of braised beef tips and noodles on fine wedding china).

Next post, I have some BIG and EXCITING news. Dear me, no, there isn't another baby coming. That ship has sailed, but it is about one of my exisiting babies and we're very proud of her! :)

Much love,

Marni

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It took 18 years on the Dallas Police Department, but Dane finally got his dream job :) He moved to the Personnel divison a couple of weeks ago. He is responsible for deciding if applicants to the police department are qualified for a spot in each academy classes. He just loves it! And I love it because after all the years he's been on the department, he's finally going to a permanent shift of 8am-5pm and weekends and government holidays off. Life is good ;)

The new job requires some traveling since applicants will apply from out of state and he has to go and do full background checks on them. One officer in his division gets to go check out an applicant from Hawaii. Dane however, gets to go check out an applicant from Detroit. In the dead of winter. He's taking it in stride ;) I told him if he ever gets an Hawaiian applicant, I'm buying a plane ticket too and we're calling it a working second honeymoon!

I've got lots of pictures to post of the last month, but I keep forgetting to upload the pictures. I'll have some up soon, I promise.

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