From Magnificat magazine: It is natural for travelers to hasten toward their native land, and natural too that they should have trouble on the way and safety at home. So let us who are on the way to it hasten toward our native land; for our whole life is like a single day's journey.And therefore let us devote ourselves to divine rather than human … [Read more...]
Giving Credit
...where credit is amply due.I just bought the candles and provided the gentle, verbal promptings all last Sunday. … [Read more...]
“I am the Immaculate Conception”
On this most beautiful of feast days, I wish you all purity of heart peace of soul, and a true devotion! I would also like wish our happy, holy 4-year-old a blessed Spiritual Birthday! (Baptized 4 years ago today!)One quick story as to why this image of Our Lady of Lourdes is special to me. When I was in college and living in France, my … [Read more...]
The Feast of St. Nicholas Revisited
*I am experimenting with the size (and therefore quality) of some of the photos I post. Will you let me know if my most recent post ("Giving Credit") takes super long to download? I am such a newbie when it comes to digital anything! I am doing a test on this post and that's why I'm republishing it. Bear with me. Any advice is welcome. Many Happy … [Read more...]
A Bag of Coins for Mommy’s Dowry
St. Nicholas stopped by our house yesterday, in many more ways than one.Yes, he left goodies for the children. (Although, truth be told, Dear Nicholas, you set a difficult precedent on your feast day last year. Remember? You left the boys those really cool hot wheels sets? The ones with several feet of track and the rubber-band-ejected race cars? … [Read more...]
Toddler Math
Today's Lesson: Teaching Fractions Give your two-year-old a square piece of cheese. Watch as she neatly folds it--in half, and then in fourths, and then in eighths--and then neatly places it all down the front of her diaper. Give her a piece of canadian bacon. Watch as she chews it carefully into--goodness, maybe 1/100th bits?--and then … [Read more...]
An Advent Meditation
The Joy of Advent/The Joy of Receiving Our Lord in Holy Communion:Each passing day [of Advent] marks another step towards the celebration of our Redeemer's birth. It is, moreover, a figure of the happiness we feel when we go, rightly disposed, to receive Holy Communion.It is inevitable that along with this joy we should feel progressively more … [Read more...]
On Our Way to Gaudete
More photos from the "Paint your Daughters' Room a Sunglasses-Requiring Shade of Pink" series.The title of this post was inspired by Suzanne's hilarious comment yesterday. And Rebecca, to answer your question, I am not as patient as it may appear. Each of my children was allowed a few strokes of the brush because it's just too cool--that tacky … [Read more...]
Lost!
One large zip-lock baggie containing a whole Advent's worth of Jesse Tree symbols.It is probably right beside our Mommy's sanity, because she can't seem to find that either.Please say a prayer that we find our symbols! Because it was kind of odd to gather round the tree last night and listen to our mom say, "Okay! Well, I can't find the symbols but … [Read more...]
Why I’ve been quiet lately:
I'm sure there's a story here somewhere. … [Read more...]
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