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Pretty little nose! Was this for the nuchal translucency screen?

So happy for you!

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Dear Bob, We're going to take our taxes and move to North Dakota next month. Those of you inclined to pray, have at it. My advisor says there are jobs. Atty will grow up near extended family. We have friends pretty well built in. I want to go home. I'll miss our church and the refugee family I've st...

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Bones. Oh God. Big Bad episode. I'm so tense.

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Awww!

*melt*

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Yay! I remember week nine being just awful, hunger-nausea wise. Glad you're past it!

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Me, too!!

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Dumbest, most irrational irritation ever: Atty has three teeth on top and three on bottom, and when he gives a toothy grin, it's not symmetrical anymore. I wish he'd get a fourth tooth on top on the other side, already. (I have a thing about symmetry, okay? When I take eggs from the carton, I do it ...

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See, I wouldn't mind thoughtful articles articulating a point of view different from mine. The people I block are all snarky image heavy.

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I've blocked a few people from my news feed. I don't like to, but if I'm learning more about their (irritating) political views than their lives, I do it.

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I'm so glad she's stabilized! Her name is really beautiful.

How are you doing, recovery-wise?

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Yeah. We give people choice of common cup or individual poured from a (separate) common cup.

So, related question. If someone can't have bread, but can drink wine, is that allowed/valid?

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That is just strange to me. I'm not saying it's not valid or wrong, it's just a sort of, "By the way, on our planet, did you know the sky is green?" I actually assisted serving at a national youth convention with 28,000 people. They all got wine, far as I know. When I was pregnant, I had g...

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Well, I mean, I guess I kind of do understand - I have no idea if there's an official stance on that, because I don't think just taking bread occurs to anyone. But, I mean, if I just had bread for some reason, it's not like I think God would say, "No grace for you!" But I guess I don't get...

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Okay, I'm not understanding why that was heresy?

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Yes, beautifully expressed. Or, more simply, if you ask a Lutheran and a Catholic, "Are the consecrated elements of communion the body and blood of Christ?" Both will say, "Yes." If you ask them, "Are the consecrated elements still bread and wine?" The Lutheran will say...

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Yes, I guess that is less offensive, although it's theologically misleading. It's not like it's 90% body and blood, 10% bread and wine, download incomplete. It's more like being both a wave and a particle at the same time. I don't know. I mean, having grown up LCMS, I get what you're saying as far a...

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You Lutherans are weird. You and your consubstantiation! The corollary of that is that one who believes in transubstantiation (the technical term for the Catholic beliefs regarding the Eucharist) should not profane it by treating any lesser (so-perceived) ritual with a similar reverence to that of ...

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Right, except we don't believe communion is symbolic. (Nor do we believe in transubstantiation.)

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*giant hugs*

Love and prayers and good thoughts for you and Baby Girl. I'm so sorry you haven't been able to hold her much, but also very grateful to hear she's going to be okay.

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Wait, i thought the protestants in general didn't believe in the communion with the saints... We define "communion of saints" somewhat differently, basically as the whole of the Christian church, as the body of Christ. To us (again, "us" meaning Lutherans specifically, but I bel...

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Hee. Yeah. By "absolutely" what I meant is if your cats are my cats and someone more qualified doesn't disagree

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Thanks! Yesterday I went to our apartment's workout room and did 40ish minutes on the elliptical. I enjoyed it - in part because I didn't have to try to entertain Atty and work out at the same time. Today, I did a briefer but more difficult DVD. Twenty minutes cardio and then it has four different s...

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*waiting for news*

So curious about her name!

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Absolutely. We got rid of the dry food because Reece was constantly getting UTIs, and wet food meant he'd ingest more water. Both he and Tara were quite overweight, he was nearly twenty pounds. The UTIs completely stopped after we switched, and he went down to fourteen pounds. Tara slimmed down a go...

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Some Lutherans cross themselves (my mom).

I received communion from a female pastor last week. Pretty sure that puts me in the clear

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Um. Yeah. Lutheran here. Recite and understand both the Apostle's and Nicene creeds and have definitely not become Catholic. (Protestant churches, when saying the part about believing in the holy catholic church either use the word catholic with a small c, meaning universal, or alter the line to say...

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Worked out three days in a row with my Walk Away the Pounds three mile DVD. I like it because it truly makes me sweat, but is, like, the least threatening, least insecurity-raising DVD I've found. Proud that I've stopped letting being tired and having Atty at home get in the way. (Though, I admit, A...

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Both spatulas in general. May use scraper if I'm asking someone to hand it to me and am specifying.

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Aww! That's lovely. Atty and I have lullabies we sing each night, but nothing personalized. Well, except for the version of You Are My Sunshine I do when he's up in the middle of the night and I'm exhausted and he's not sleeping: You are my Atty, I love you madly. You drive me batty, sometimes, too....

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One thing about coming to football in adulthood - I don't have much in the way of passion for division rivalries. If I didn't associate Chiefs fandom with former co-workers who were rabidly anti-Raider, I wouldn't care at all. Donny hates the Broncos with great passion -and, don't get me wrong, I'd ...

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Yeah, that pretty much sums up my feelings about pweb for awhile, now.

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My doctor gave me 2 good pieces of news today! 1. They are now using dissolvable stitches that seal from the inside. I don't have to go home with only the fusion of flesh over 4 days holding my entire abdomen together. 2. It is now standard to have skin-to-skin time after a c-section!!!!!!! Usually...

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Off To A Good Start In 2013 Because: Have actually put things in January to January jar Visit from my mom and brother Am taking good, positive, important steps towards finding employment, even if they are baby steps Am writing down what I'm eating still, several days in (trying to be more mindful a...

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Huh. Turns out that when you adopt the philosophy that your bathtub shouldn't be allowed to get dirty to begin with, cleaning it takes much less time and effort. Astounding.

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