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Have you heard about those super cool drive-in theaters? The ones where you can camp on the grounds while watching a fun family movie?This is our version.Yes, we are cheap.(Ten points if you can name the fun family movie.)Yours in times of fiscal conservatism, … [Read more...]
According to RANDOM.ORG, the winner of Making Music Praying Twice (The Easter/Pentecost Edition) is...Sarah!Please contact me so that I may get your songbook and CD in the mail, Sarah.* * * * * * *Thank you, everyone, for participating! It was great fun to read your thoughts on this subject. Guess what, though? There’s more! John and Kate Daneluk, … [Read more...]
Subtitled: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Pot…and How We are SurvivingOn Sunday night I smiled to realize something: Directly following our crazy-busy weekend was…two full weeks of swim camp.* I smiled because what else can I do but deal with it? That is, after all, what we busy moms do best.Now then. Because we have a half hour of drive time … [Read more...]
We survived this past weekend but only just. God is good; He gave us the grace to meet every challenge and we didn’t even kill each other.It would be a bad thing to kill one’s husband on Father’s Day, don’t you think?On the contrary, by the time we reached Sunday—by the 10:00 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral on Sunday—we were on the downhill slide of an … [Read more...]
I have mentioned once or twice before that I am (originally) from the great state of North Dakota. Have you been? Why not? You should. It’s great.Trust me. I make the trip as often as I can……and still it’s not enough.You know.That is why when my husband made plans to take the kids camping this past weekend—giving me a “get out of this camping trip … [Read more...]
I know you know that you should go, but I’m adding my review just ‘cause I want to.You really must see this movie.Grandma and Grandpa came to town yesterday and offered to take all the kids (minus one) to see it. They wanted to give us the afternoon off, I think, and seemed surprised when John and I tagged along.[And then—cha-ching!—they paid our … [Read more...]
I don’t think I’ve mentioned the date that I’m hoping to have this baby.I don’t have long to wait at all. The date that I’m hoping for is tomorrow, May 24th, the feast of Our Lady, Help of Christians.Because I know I need all the help I can get……in every area.Rest assured. I’ll keep you posted.Ad Jesum per Mariam, Ed. Note: The above photo was … [Read more...]
...to this online geography game.But completely.Except...no offense to you people in Rhode Island, but how do you actually all fit in your state?HT: Mary Ellen … [Read more...]
(Vol. VIII for Me)~ Take 1 ~Happy Feast of St. Joseph the Worker! Happy May Day!A year ago today, the kids and I could be found driving around town in the early a.m., delivering May Day baskets to all our friends. Not so this year, not so. Alas, I find I am seriously lacking in most things motivated and mobile.Yet, for the 4th? 5th? perhaps 6th … [Read more...]
Don’t you just feel…different today somehow? It’s as if God is pulling us ever closer, saying, “The promise and joy of Easter are looming, but the love—this infinite, unfathomable love—has never left you.”Something like that.Because I am 33 weeks pregnant today and am, therefore, even more crazy & hormonal than usual, I decided this morning to … [Read more...]
