I stood at the kitchen window yesterday, wondering if ever the snow would melt…wondering if ever this Lent would end. I miss you guys. I miss your comments. I glanced at our salt dough crown of thorns and smiled to see its thorns half gone. So many sacrifices offered in love for Him! So many thorns tenderly plucked from His crown. I did … [Read more...]
Lenten Check-In
This is a picture of our 3-going-on-4-in-two-months!-year-old George. Photo Credit: Kaylee Do you remember how hard we fought we for this kid? Goodness. Lately George can’t decide if he’s a big boy or not. In fact, this whole thing with [insert new blog name for Baby Nickers here] has pretty much thrown him for a loop, because—on … [Read more...]
Lacking in Humility
I saw this at a friend’s yesterday: Seventeen Evidences of a Lack of Humility (from the writings of St. Josemaría Escrivá) 1. To think that what one says or does is better than what others say or do 2. To always want to get your own way 3. To argue with stubbornness and bad manners whether you are right or wrong 4. To give your opinion … [Read more...]
Our Lenten Crowns
We finally got around to making a salt dough crown of thorns. What? There are still two and a half weeks left of Lent. We’re doing well! (Haven’t yet made a papal lap book, though.) (Fingers crossed. Please no pope until we get it done!) Hey, a mom’s gotta do what a mom’s gotta do, and when it comes to cooking & cleaning & … [Read more...]
Naughty Little Mommy Monkey
I got back from dropping the boys off at school this morning and my 3-year-old met me at the door. “George is a bad little monkey!” he told me. “Really?” I asked. “What did he do?” “Him opened up the gate where the bunnies were!” he said enthusiastically. “Them eyes popped open and the babies runned away! Him tried to catch them but them ran too … [Read more...]
On Keeping the Love in Lent
I am either the world’s best mom or the world’s worst Catholic or neither, but we celebrated Valentine’s Day yesterday. Remember when I said I was indifferent to chocolate? (I think this might have been on Facebook.) Well, yesterday was definitely not the case. I felt a bit guilty giving out treat bags full of candy because—Hello?! … [Read more...]
Life. Lemons. Lent. Love.
Or: On Looking Uncertainty in the Eye So which would you like to talk about: Sunday night’s episode of Downton Abbey, (a double-header!) or the unexpected resignation of our beloved pope? Neither? Well good, because I think both subjects have been amply covered already. It’s not that I don’t have an opinion because I do. Don’t you? It’s … [Read more...]
Waiting & Watching
Three little girls braided and ready for the vigil...Three little girls so excited, they could burst.We are close--so close!--but we are not there yet.(Thankfully.)(I mean, really. How many last-minute errands can one mom run?)Still we wait, and still we hope, and still we strive to grow in love. We can, you know--every minute we can! That's the … [Read more...]
Running to Sunday
Just a note—just a quick little reflection—because I know you are busy getting ready for Easter. That’s rather the whole point of Lent, isn’t it? We take a long hard look at who we are…then try to be better to be more like Him.(Not to be confused with the lower-case "him" pictured above, though being childlike is always a good thing.)It’s a hard … [Read more...]
Retreat!
This past weekend I got to go away.I packed my bags—a single duffel, actually—and said goodbye to the kids, who didn’t mind at all that I was leaving them. Staying with friends from Friday ‘til Sunday? A grand adventure!(My husband couldn’t watch them because he was on retreat too—a retreat of a different sort called Wood badge Training.)Even … [Read more...]
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