Lots of Coffee, lots of kids. It's a peaceful life.
Today is the first day of International Pickle week?!!I tell you, I had no idea until the email popped into my inbox. Well. You didn't need to tell me twice. I am pumped and ready to celebrate.We are BIG pickle lovers in this house. Seriously. Huge! Even Baby Anthony goes to town like nobody's business when you pop him in his highchair and hand him … [Read more...]
An online friend has a birthday today...…and it’s a nice round number, to boot. ; )Alicia (aka Love2Learn Mom) is exactly the sort of smart Catholic blogger that we need in the Church today—a homeschooling mom who is as engaging as she is erudite and as down-to-earth as she is devout.Her writing, which can be found at both the popular Love2Learn … [Read more...]
~ In Photos ~With love & blessings & a sigh of relief, … [Read more...]
Dearest Felicity,Today you will receive Our Lord for the first time. I am so happy for you! You have worked so hard this year to prepare your heart for Him and you should be very proud. Right now your heart is a beautiful garden and your guest will be arriving soon—so soon!Do you know that He is just as excited as you are?You may feel nervous and … [Read more...]
...from all the pre-First Communion shopping, cleaning, and cooking to say, "Look, Mom! I wore him out!"Except I'm the mom.And I already know.Happy Saturday! I hope you have sunny skies like we do, and if you've got rain, well, that you need it.AMDG, … [Read more...]
Don’t know if you feed readers caught the update last night, but Felicity passed her interview.Yay! Praise God! She’s on her way!Mrs. Prather said that she did really well and that they had a nice little chat afterwards about Felicity’s patron saint. (Hint: “Felicity” is not Felicity’s real name, as much as I love it.) “She really seems to grasp … [Read more...]
*Updated to Add: She passed the interview!“How lovely it was, that first kiss of Jesus in my heart -- it was truly a kiss of love. I knew that I was loved and said, ‘I love You, and I give myself to You forever.’”--St. Thérèse on her First Communion (from Story of a Soul) Felicity has her First Communion interview this evening, after which we get … [Read more...]
Jean & the kids in the choir sang this at Mass today.There wasn't a dry mother's eye in the house.Happy Mother's day! (again)Today & always. … [Read more...]
Note: The following includes yet another roll-over. It would appear that I'm addicted.Today I am thankful for all the calm...…and crazy moments, and for the masterpiece that is a child. We wouldn’t be moms without them!(Though, granted, our husbands played a substantial role.)In looking around at Mass today, I saw a dozen different moms that I … [Read more...]
The same sweet anonymous family blessed our stoop this morning. They have been doing this for years now.A tiny bottle full of lilies of the valley, and five charming May Day baskets for my candy-consuming children, each with an inscription honoring the Blessed Mother.My personal favorite wasClear Star of the MorningIn Beauty enshrined,O Mary, make … [Read more...]
