Lots of Coffee, lots of kids. It's a peaceful life.
The vent in our dining room does, which makes it prime real estate for little bodies.Especially when it looks like this outside:Yup, we’ve got ourselves a snow day. … [Read more...]
Part IIRead Part I here.By the time the loaves of bread had risen to the tops of the pans and had baked in the oven to a crusty brown, the afternoon was almost gone. “They’re beautiful,” Mother said, as Ginnie cautiously took the pans from the oven.“They’re done.” Ginnie gave a vast sigh of relief. “But it takes a lot of time.”When I finally found … [Read more...]
The more I think about it, the more I realize that there really were some great moments during the Academy Awards ceremony.This was one of them.We loved the children's book The Man Who Walked Between The Towers and are looking forward to renting this documentary. If you've seen it and can recommend it, let me know.Oh, and the fact that Bill Maher … [Read more...]
These days, it’s not the spilt glasses of milk that make me cry. It’s the shattered jars of pickles.I’m pregnant. I need those pickles.Yet somehow, when I pulled that 1-gallon glass jar off the shelf at Sam’s Club and placed it in my cart, I just knew that it was an accident waiting to happen. Call it my mother’s intuition; call it my destiny; call … [Read more...]
...it was probably worth watching the Oscars to see this:Even my husband stopped making his snarky comments long enough to laugh.AMDG, … [Read more...]
When will I ever learn that to watch the Academy Awards is to be utterly INFURIATED by the agenda? When will I learn that, inasmuch as I love movies, I do not love Hollywood?Sean Penn, you’re annoying. You spent half of your acceptance speech chastising the voters of California for the gay marriage ban and didn’t once think to thank your wife who, … [Read more...]
Today is my husband’s 38th birthday.Happy Birthday, Honey! St. Peter Damian, pray for him!I chose carrot cake for his celebratory dessert, (with his approval), and then asked him to run to the store for the ingredients. He said sure and grabbed his coat, because that’s the kind of good guy he is. It was the smallest of lists, anyway—cream cheese … [Read more...]
The Lenten EditionDo you want to talk about what you’re doing for Lent?Or would you prefer to keep that a secret?Hey, I am all about helping one another along the path of sanctity…and that’s what Lent is for, of course—growing in holiness and drawing closer to Our Lord. There is a world of good that we can do with our penances, if only we focus on … [Read more...]
(Vol. V for Me)~ Take 1 ~In my 7 Quick Takes post last week, I talked about reading My Life With the Saints. I remarked that I had struggled with Father James Martin’s inclusion of people who had not been canonized yet and then sat back, fingers crossed, hoping that some of you would take the bait and talk to me about this problem.“You’re not going … [Read more...]
It’s almost Lent.Do you know where your favorite spiritual books are?The following is from one of my very favorite tomes, The Three Ages of the Interior Life. For some reason, when I picked it up this morning, it fell open to the section on “retarded souls.”Or maybe—just maybe—I looked for this section myself.In any case, here are the words that … [Read more...]
