It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.” (2 Maccabees 12:46) Photo credit: My sweet and talented friend, Annie Norton Look, Mom dear reader! Three posts in three days! (Only 27 more to go.) (Let me just say that a definite shift in habit's going to be required.) So … [Read more...]
Friends in Low Places
Three Reasons to LOVE the Holy Souls in Purgatory Today we celebrate the Feast of All Souls, and I apologize if referring to them as my "friends in low places" leaves a Garth Brooks song stuck in your head all day. Hey, there are worse things, right? Especially if you pray for the Holy Souls when you sing it. Except... The Holy Souls … [Read more...]
A Beautiful Feast, a Brand New Month…
...and one or two leftover spooky thoughts. I am inordinately fond of our kitchen calendar. I love turning the page on the first day of the month and seeing the new month's illustration, which is always bright, happy and fills me with hope. Hope is good. I'll take a plateful, please. A new month brings with it new goals, like the one … [Read more...]
“Trick or Stream”
Some Thoughts (and Movies) about Who We Are on Halloween Note to the Unsuspecting Reader: This is an Netflix-sponsored post, but the views expressed within are mine. There now. You've been warned. I wish today were a TGIF kinda day. You know exactly what I mean, I'm sure—a kick back kinda day, relax and chill before the … [Read more...]
A Give-Away Winner and a {Why}
First, THANK YOU for all your prayers on my birthday! I am confident that the recipient of all this grace will be blessed. ♥ Second, and without any further ado, (Is that possible?!), here is the winner of Teaching from Rest. Random.org selected Commenter 25... ...which meant Commenter 26 … [Read more...]
A Birthday Give-Away, because I ♥ You
Today is my birthday. I am 49 years old. {That's okay. I don't mind if you gasp.} Once upon a time, I looked like this: Now, however, I look like this: Okay, not really. That's just how I feel some days. Actually, I look like this: Saying goodbye to 48! (Photo credit: Felicity, who sighed and set … [Read more...]
Deliver Us From…
Pick your poison, 'cause on any given day that's what I do. When we pray the Our Father as a family, and we DO do this, every night before bed, I cling to that last request like nobody's business. Deliver us, Lord, from all sorts of evil. Deliver us from bickering kids. Deliver us from fear and feeling overwhelmed. Deliver us from … [Read more...]
What a $10 Beer taught Me about Me
In short, some habits are HARD to break. This is me. (Me and my husband, to be exact.) Can you tell that I'd had a $10 beer in this picture? I hope you say no, because I hadn't. Instead, alas, I'd had too much wine. TMI? No. Too much wine. (I'm telling you this for a reason. Bear with me.) This is our 2-year-old … [Read more...]
The New (and Incredibly Difficult) Dynamic
A Somewhat Belated, Back-to-School Review, alternately titled: Guys. I really, really want to be blogging more often. I do! It's just that (among another 12 hundred things), it's taken me four full weeks to find my homeschooling stride and you know what? It still goes missing! But it's getting better. "I'm sorry I locked myself in … [Read more...]
Baby Steps for a Big Baby: 7 Things I Did this Summer to Feel like Less of a Failure
Or: On How to Stop Over-eating, Over-worrying, Over-EVERYTHING, for crying out loud! You may have noticed that I haven't been blogging. There are at least two good reasons for this decision, seven of which I'm going to detail here. (?) The truth is, I was (trying to) squeeze every last moment of merit from the summer that flew by...and as … [Read more...]
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