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Today's Lesson: Teaching Fractions Give your two-year-old a square piece of cheese. Watch as she neatly folds it--in half, and then in fourths, and then in eighths--and then neatly places it all down the front of her diaper. Give her a piece of canadian bacon. Watch as she chews it carefully into--goodness, maybe 1/100th bits?--and then … [Read more...]
The Joy of Advent/The Joy of Receiving Our Lord in Holy Communion:Each passing day [of Advent] marks another step towards the celebration of our Redeemer's birth. It is, moreover, a figure of the happiness we feel when we go, rightly disposed, to receive Holy Communion.It is inevitable that along with this joy we should feel progressively more … [Read more...]
More photos from the "Paint your Daughters' Room a Sunglasses-Requiring Shade of Pink" series.The title of this post was inspired by Suzanne's hilarious comment yesterday. And Rebecca, to answer your question, I am not as patient as it may appear. Each of my children was allowed a few strokes of the brush because it's just too cool--that tacky … [Read more...]
One large zip-lock baggie containing a whole Advent's worth of Jesse Tree symbols.It is probably right beside our Mommy's sanity, because she can't seem to find that either.Please say a prayer that we find our symbols! Because it was kind of odd to gather round the tree last night and listen to our mom say, "Okay! Well, I can't find the symbols but … [Read more...]
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From today's "Prayer for the Morning" in Magnificat magazine:"We urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, cheer the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient with all."See that no one returns evil for evil; rather always seek what is good [both] for each other and for all. Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing" (I Thes. 5:14-17).Could there be a more … [Read more...]
Note to Self: If the cheese lady at Sam's Club refers to your selection as "fairly assertive," your children (and your guests' children, for that matter), are not going to enjoy it.And they will tell their hostess so, politely but most emphatically.Advent/Pre-Holiday Tip #2: For every chunk of Emmentaler you bring home, pick up a nice mild colby to … [Read more...]
...to be out and about in the blogosphere!Put on your jackets and grab a thermos of peppermint cocoa. Dawn has put together an absolutely wonderful Late Autumn Field Day over at By Sun and Candlelight.She had help, of course. Wow! What an awesome collection of harvest reflections! I am grabbing my coat & mittens and going out to make some new … [Read more...]
Being a big huge enormous fan of anything posted on By Sun and Candlelight, (I am a Dawn wannabe), I have put together a set of reflections on why I love late November for Dawn's Late Autumn Field Day.As always, they are in the form of a list and in this case, come in triplicate. (It must be a Holy Trinity thing.)So here we go, then. Three of my … [Read more...]
Subtitled: When Bad Behavior Leads to Good CookingCamille evidently decided that tonight's leftover spaghetti sauce needed revamping. She pushed a stool over to the counter and poured a bunch of half and half into the container.*Which looked really gross when I first found it.And which reminded me of a recipe I once came across, a sort of sauce … [Read more...]
