Are you still celebrating?Once, when I was a college girl, I spent my Christmas vacation out west with my cousins.Menlo Park, California.In December.It was gorgeous.I had brought my Christmas card list along with me so that I could keep checking people off my list. Come Epiphany and I was still cranking along, typing out lengthy personal notes … [Read more...]
The Gift of the Magi for Modern Wives
Subtitled: From Rocks in the Mattress to Flowers in your HandDisclaimer: This post is for healthy, married women only. If you are in your third trimester, if you are sick, if you are in Phase-Whatever-It-Is-When-You’re-Practicing-NFP-and-Can-Flirt-But-That’s-It… If you are any of those things or, conversely, if you’re a guy… Then this post is not … [Read more...]
Pre-Christmas Perspective
Last night I was at a Christmas party for my daughters’ American Heritage Girls troop. The junior leaders chose as their theme “A Baby Shower for the King of Kings,” complete with shower-type party games and a table full of baby gifts for a local shelter.The girls had a blast. They played baby-item bingo and did a blind baby food taste test. … [Read more...]
That’s so depressing!
So I felt a little guilty about my post yesterday. It did, after all, have a fair share of grit, and is it good to be gritty on Gaudete Sunday?I didn’t know.I closed the comments on the post, as is my way (usually) when what I write is rather sad and pathetic. I didn’t want to seem all fishing-for-comments-y, nor did I want to spend my Sunday … [Read more...]
Gaudete Joy
“But when your days are happy PINK, it’s great to jump and just not think.”--from My Many Colored Days by Dr. SeussYou may not be feeling the joy, I know.Your day may be dark and your heart, heavy. Your mind might be cluttered by a thousand obligations; your perspective skewed; your home, a mess.Look for the pink.Look for the pink wherever you … [Read more...]
“I am the Immaculate Conception.”
I am posting something on this beautiful & holy feast for two reasons: one, it is a beautiful & holy feast and two, I wanted to bump down that photo of my feet a bit.Who blogs about dieting right before Christmas, for goodness sake? I do, apparently. Cheer up, though! Next week I’m not going to blog about diets. Next week I’m going to blog … [Read more...]
On Second Thought…
I am going to go dark for Advent. I have a feeling you were expecting this! ☺The funeral notice for my sons’ classmate arrived in my inbox this afternoon. Johnny was the youngest of six children—his mother’s baby—and suddenly, I don’t know, I am feeling a strong inner prompting to stop talking so much.(The idea being that perhaps by not talking I … [Read more...]
The Faith of a Child
Once upon a time, my 14-year-old son Joe (who was 10 at the time) asked to go with me to my holy hour. It’s from 4:00 to 5:00 a.m. on Sunday morning—i.e. the dead of night if you’re a kid—and for that reason I didn’t really think I should take him. Still, he pressed his case (as is his way) and in the end, I relented.(I wrote about the experience … [Read more...]
Christ the King, Christ our King
Originally posted on November 21, 2010In honor of today’s great feast…I cry every time I see this.Today is one of those feasts where I feel—acutely—my shortcomings as a Christian. I want to be bolder in proclaiming Our Lord’s kingship; I want to submit; I want to know. What does it mean that He’s our king? And how should that affect us?Today I am … [Read more...]
Speaking of giveaways…
Alternately Titled: How God WorksJamie is hosting a giveaway right now and I encourage you all to go over and enter. Here’s the link: A Book Review and my First Giveaway! I smiled to see her say in the comments that she would have her children pick the two winners, as she doesn’t know how to do “that other thing.” The random number generator is … [Read more...]
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