It’d been years since we went to the Easter vigil and I don’t think the kids realized what was in store for them. (Nine readings…several baptisms…lots & lots & lots of music…)You’re wondering, perhaps, how they held up?Photo Credit: My Friend TinaWell, here is your proof that 2 and a half hours later, we were still smiling!(Except for … [Read more...]
Gaudete Joy
Read the second (and final) installment here. … [Read more...]
Woo Hoo!!
Not that we're...excited or anything. … [Read more...]
(Almost) Wordless Wednesday
The Thin Lizzy Rip-Off EditionThe boys are back in town! The boys are back in town!The boys are back...The boys are back...(Admit it.)(You're singing right along with me.)So.What do you think?D'ya think he missed his baby brother much?What am I going to do when this kid goes back to school?I'm serious.I'm 100% totally serious. … [Read more...]
Plug your ears, please.
I...love...LOST!!!I know.I am so completely behind the times that it's groundbreaking, really. Cool & retro, that's me! (Not really.)Well, I may not be trendy but I know a good thing when I read about it...and read about it...and read & read & read about it. My husband and I started watching Season 1 of LOST on Netflix a couple of weeks … [Read more...]
Ambassadors for Christ
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...]
Home for the Holidays
Okay, so if I’m crying I can only imagine how Michelle feels.(Make sure you scroll to the end of her post to see all the beaming faces.)Praise God.Praise God praise God praise God praise God. … [Read more...]
More than Enough
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”(2 Cor. 12:9)New Baby Anthony is now baptized!It was a good day—a beautiful day—but we are currently going through what I like to call “sacramental hangover.” The girls have been bathed & put to bed; the boys and I are about to watch a highly edited version of this … [Read more...]
Welcomed to the World
We did it! Thanks be to God! George* was born on Sunday, May 24th, 2009 at (yawn!) 10:49 p.m. Weight: 6 lbs 9.9 oz Height: 19 1/2 inches Mother and son are doing well (as you can see by the props in the photo above) and would like to thank you wholeheartedly for all your prayers. With love & blessings & gratitude & … [Read more...]
Yes!!!
The ultrasound showed a lovely, lively, living little baby!Thanks be to God for graces big and small. The baby’s measurements matched my estimates perfectly and showed him (or her) to be at 11½ weeks’ gestation.Thank you, too, for all your prayers. Thank you, St. Gerard. Thank you, St. Anne. Thank you, Thérèse and Teresa and Josemaría.Thank you … [Read more...]
