Angela is going through a “naughty marker phase.” This means (not that most of you need an explanation) that while the older kids & I are busy (but distracted) in the classroom, 3-year-old Angela is busy (but very focused) somewhere else.You know that Precious Moments figurine on my nightstand? Too perfect, and way too white.You know those … [Read more...]
And don’t forget all those weekends in Aspen
Feeling certain that her mother’s existence is far cushier than her own, Cate compiled an itemized complaint at the breakfast table this morning.“Mommies get all the fun stuff, like blogs and mommy/daddy movies and sweet & sour mix with that other stuff in it and going on retreats and to Hawaii…”I think it might be really fun to perpetuate this … [Read more...]
Tempting Fate the Hefty Trash Bag Way
One of the more industrious things that my husband did in my absence this past weekend was tackle the landfill that’s our basement.When he told me he’d been cleaning, I felt a mixture of gratitude and guilt—gratitude because Hello! I didn’t have to do it; and guilt because, well, I hadn’t done it.Cryptically, my husband then asked me, “Do you mind … [Read more...]
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A Spa Treatment for the Soul
I have made it home safely from my retreat and was relieved to note that I still had five children on my return. My husband is such a trooper. Not only did he manage to get them to Mass (and back) and keep them fed & happy (I assume), he even managed to run a couple errands on Saturday!“You got a haircut?” I said incredulously. “What’d you do … [Read more...]
Bless me, Father…
No mother could snatch her child from a burning building more swiftly than God is constrained to succor a penitent soul.-- St. Henry Suso Jennifer wrote to ask me about the First Confession/First Communion program at our church, and as such I am going to have this post about Cate’s first confession do double duty.I know that Cate won’t mind!Let me … [Read more...]
Taking off for the Great White North
Subtitled: This could be Canada.My daughters* are amused but baffled. Why is Mom laughing and running for her camera?** And who the heck are Bob and Doug?I promise not to call them “hosers.”*No, the sheepdog look is not “in” in Minnesota. Yes, I know that Felicity needs a haircut.**And sadly, these kids are more than used to their mother laughing … [Read more...]
Maggie’s Quick Picks
Llama Llama, Mad at Mama is wonderful. The illustrations are wonderful; the storyline is wonderful; little llama and his mama are wonderful. What’s that? You want real proof, you say? Okay. Here’s but a snippet of this to-be-read-aloud and to-be-loved-a-lot new book:Llama llama/out with Mama/shopping at the Shop-O-Rama. Yucky music/great big … [Read more...]
Speaking of Praying…
...and on a much lighter note...When I requested this book at my library, (isn’t it nice that I own a library?), I was promptly stuck into a queue of about 200 people. This morning I see that my time has come. This is it! The moment they’ve made me wait months for!Italy, India, & Indonesia…here I come. Will I be more yin-yangy when I return? Or … [Read more...]
Heath Ledger is dead at 28.
Are you as shaken by the sudden death of this celebrity as I am?This is so unexpected, and so very, very sad.Life is a gift. Life is a gift. Life is a gift.I’m going to go pray now.For my family…And for his.Ad Jesum per Mariam, … [Read more...]
On the 35th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade
A Prayer for Lifeby Pope John Paul IIO Mary, bright dawn of the new world,Mother of the living,to you do we entrust the cause of life:Look down, O Mother, upon the vast numbersof babies to be born,of the poor whose lives are made difficult,of men and women who are victims of brutal violence,of the elderly and the sick killedby indifference or out … [Read more...]
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