I’ve been thinking a lot about St. Teresa of Avila.First, because it was her feast day yesterday and, as such, a special day for our own sweet Felicity.Second, I am thinking about St. Teresa of Avila because Felicity has asked—begged, really—to portray her patron at next week’s performance of Saints & Scholars. (Shoot. I was hoping to get out … [Read more...]
Food for Thought
If you commit some fault, do not get all worked up or make a big fuss about it; having acknowledged the fact that you have done something wrong, gently humble yourself before God and try to put your soul at rest, saying to yourself, “Ah, well! I have tripped but now I must walk slowly, watching my steps.” Every time you fall, do the same and when … [Read more...]
Food for Thought
In this month of the Holy Rosary“Therefore, the Rosary, with its constant rhythm of 10, 50, 100 and 200 Hail Marys, is the prayer which best expresses this union with Mary, which better than every other places one in direct communion with Her in the contemplation of the Incarnation (joyful mysteries), of Revelation (luminous mysteries), of … [Read more...]
On Loving and Losing: Amy Welborn’s Wish You Were Here
Today is my niece Kellee’s birthday. She would be 26 years old today......if she had not been killed in a car accident when she was 19.Ironically—and yet, poignantly—she was on her way home from visiting her grandma (my mom) who was in the hospital recovering from bypass surgery.We were thinking we might lose my mother. Instead, we lost our … [Read more...]
Lemonade Stands and Gasoline Cans
Alternately Titled: It’s a Small World After All On Monday my girls set up a lemonade stand. They have been asking to do a lemonade stand since, basically, the Reagan Administration…and Monday, finally, was the big day.(They made $7.00 and declared it a huge success.)Felicity came in at one point and said, “Mom? There’s a car out there whose lights … [Read more...]
Letting Go of Life’s Little Imperfections
The Homeschooling EditionNot a lot of time for blogging today—thus the title of this post—but I wanted to share with you an area of my life where I could use much improvement.Because I am just that humble.If you ask your six-year-old to go get you the print-out, you may need to be okaywith your letter being crumpled. Are you okay with that?It’s … [Read more...]
En Garde
So are you liking the French theme I have going with the titles of my posts? It’s just a little service I thought I would provide. (Do you speak a foreign language? I find it can be awkward to try and teach French to my children, especially since I’m the only one who speaks it and they all just sort of blink at me.) (They’re coming along pretty … [Read more...]
More Food for Thought
“Coming from an unsuccessful background, I had developed deep feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. I had fallen into the mental trap of assuming that people who were doing better than me were actually better than me. What I learned was that this was not necessarily true. They were just doing things differently, and what they had learned to do, … [Read more...]
Food for Thought
“Fully 95 percent of your emotions, positive or negative, are determined by how you talk to yourself on a minute-to-minute basis. It is not what happens to you but the way that you interpret the things that are happening to you that determines how you feel.“To keep yourself motivated, you must resolve to become a complete optimist. You must … [Read more...]
Up…or down?
It is a great honor to you who are married that God, in His design to multiply souls who may bless and praise Him for all eternity, causes you to cooperate with Him in so noble a work.-- St. Francis de SalesIt seems like everyone’s thinking about Father Corapi these days—everyone except my two-year-old, that is.I’ll tell you.George’s innocence … [Read more...]
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