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Still watching!

by Filed Under: Homeschooling, Minnesota Me, Special Events Leave a Comment

This little guy/gal should be hatching any time now. There was quite a bit of excitement yesterday when a lizard poked his nose into the nest and then went on his merry way. (Can a lizard be merry? I assume he can.) The mommy hummingbird then chucked one of the eggs out of the nest!So curious.Anyway, it's not every day that one gets to watch a baby … [Read more...]

Kiss me! I’m (pretending to be) Irish!

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(From the cooking blog archives)What’s on your menu for this evening? Are you feasting instead of fasting?Same here!Corned beef and cabbage is very easy to make. Have you tried it? No? You must. All I did was boil the corned beef for 30 minutes (to reduce its saltiness) with half the contents of the little spice pack that comes with it.Then I … [Read more...]

Morning Routine

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Who am I kidding with that title?It’s the first Monday of Daylight Savings Time. All routines were off this morning! Should you have stopped by at…oh…the ripe old hour of 9:00 a.m., you would not have found my children’s heads bent studiously over their Latin, Phonics, Spelling or Math.You would, however, have found them in the sink.One of them, … [Read more...]

Ambassadors for Christ

by Filed Under: Lent, Living Liturgically, Minnesota Me, Moments of Incredible Joy 13 Comments

Seeing those pink rose-colored vestments at Mass this weekend did my heart and spirits no end of good. I cried, this time for joy.We are halfway there!If this isn’t a rose-colored vestment smile then I don’t know what is.As hard as the past four weeks have been—and I’ll tell you, it seems as if we Minnesotans have not had sun for all that time—they … [Read more...]

Cause and Effect

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My oldest son asks to go to morning Mass. Splendid! Off I go with my bookend boys in tow.After Mass (and feeling thankful), I drop him off at school and pop in a CD for the drive home. Andrew Pudewa. Good stuff.Pudewa mentions John Gatto and his book Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. I think of one of my favorite … [Read more...]

A Lenten Reflection

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In Three Parts~ Part the First ~It shouldn’t surprise me that this Lent has been hard. It shouldn’t surprise me that I falter…grow discouraged…and grapple, sometimes resentfully, with the weight of the cross God sends me.None of this should surprise me and yet…It does.It always does.We are asked to join Our Lord in the desert. “Okay!” I say … [Read more...]

Food for Thought

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“You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people whom God has put into your life.”-- Sister Wendy BeckettHow is your Lent going?Mine has been quite hard.*The image of Mother Teresa is from a paper silhouette by the artist Dan Paulos. … [Read more...]