It’s the weekend, which in my case means more relaxed blogging!(Though granted, this blog has been pretty consistently relaxed since…oh… Baby Anthony was born 4 months ago. Who’s got time to be cerebral?)(Don’t answer that.)Here I am with our birthday breakfast of choice: rich & buttery, hot & caramely Monkey Bread.(Note the little monkey … [Read more...]
An Apple (or Two) for the Teacher
When I shuffled downstairs for my coffee this morning, this is what I found:Someone appears to have been busy in the kitchen. I wonder who.When I found a cryptic symbol on my coffee filter I began to worry.Don’t nobody mess with the Momma’s coffee. It’s one of my most important rituals of the day.(Okay, it’s THE most important ritual of my … [Read more...]
blogiversary
Today is the 3rd Anniversary of this blog. I think I will celebrate by...oh, I don’t know...kissing Baby Anthony or something.“I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;I will tell of all thy wonderful deeds.I will be glad and exult in thee,I will sing praise to thy name, O Most High.”(Psalm 9: 1-2)To my readers: Thank you for being a … [Read more...]
More Tea and Talk of Blogging
Sarah of With a Hopeful Heart has written a perfectly lovely account of our bloggers’ tea, and truly captures the heart of why we need these get-togethers.Read Sarah’s post here.AMDG, … [Read more...]
On Blogging and St. Dominic
The 3rd Annual Minnesota Bloggers’ Tea took place yesterday on the feast of good St. Dominic. Could we have asked for a better patron? A fitting theme makes a good tea great, and St. Dominic became the perfect intercessor for our humble get-together.Why, you ask? Well, Dominic is known for his powerful preaching and was chosen by Our Lady to … [Read more...]
Welcomed to the (Spiritual) World
“Once you were all darkness. Now, in the Lord, you are all light.”(Ephesians 5:8)So we were at a 4th of July party on the day before Anthony’s baptism and I was complaining good-naturedly to a friend at the buffet table. “What was I thinking, scheduling a baptism for the day after the 4th? I’m going crazy with all this planning!”Elizabeth is one of … [Read more...]
Irrational Fear #342
Because we are going to be doing a lot of driving this weekend, my husband asked me to put air in the van’s tires.Do you ever worry that those big black tires are going to just BLOW UP in your face?Okay, I didn’t think so.I’ll close with a photo for this holiday weekend—two of my favorite little firecrackers.Happy 4th! Ad Jesum per Mariam, … [Read more...]
Uffda
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...]
Calling all (local) theater buffs!
Something Super is a play written by Lee Ann Hotovy and directed/produced locally by actor Jeremy Stanbary. (You’ve seen him, perhaps, in Lolek and Allesandro, as well as in “The Apostle of Common Sense” on EWTN.)Joe, Jem and Cate took part in Jeremy’s Catholic Theater for Youth classes this past year, and now Joe is making his Twin Cities Debut … [Read more...]
The Big 1-0
Ten years ago it was Memorial Day. I had gone to bed the night before, praying for a May baby. "Please, Mary?" I implored her. "I know you've got some clout up there...and he would be born on your special feast day."[Ordinarily May 31st is the feast of the Visitation.][As you know.]Well, I woke up at 4:00 to an unmistakable labor......and Baby Jem … [Read more...]
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