Older siblings do not mind being yanked out of school for the morning if they are showing cool movies like The Polar Express in the reception area. Those surveys they have you fill out are becoming increasingly invasive: Do your children wear seatbelts? Okay, how about sunscreen? Do you own a gun? If so, is it locked up? Is your children's … [Read more...]
I realize she’s half French, but really!
opporˈtunist (noun): a person who takes advantage of any circumstance which will help him (or her!!!) personally … [Read more...]
Don’t Touch that Dial!
Subtitled: Or on second thought, please do.The following is to be sung to the tune of--oh, you'll know once you start humming it!"Paint the walls with aging rockers,Fa la la la la la la la...blah." This post is the third and last (I promise!) in my Painting the Walls of Daughters' Room Series.As I have already noted, the key to getting this very … [Read more...]
I’m not sure I like being called “cheesy.”
Your Christmas is Most Like: A Very Brady ChristmasFor you, it's all about sharing times with family.Even if you all get a bit cheesy at times.What Movie Is Your Christmas Most Like?HT: Dawn! … [Read more...]
Second Sunday of Advent
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...]
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