I have been thinking (read: fretting) a lot about my last post, mostly because it was a little private and I’m not in the business of embarrassing and/or estranging my readers. Are you kidding? I am nothing if not an affirmation hound. “Love me!” I say, jumping into your lap. “Love me love me love me love!” Thus the visit on Monday to a Catholic … [Read more...]
Reflections on the Feast
[One Day Out] So yesterday was the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows and we didn’t do a whole lot, unfortunately, other than go to Mass in the morning (me) and talk about how Mary really “gets” our suffering. (Me again, while the rest of the family listened dutifully). “She had seven great sorrows,” I said, waving my prayer book. “Does anyone … [Read more...]
Where were you?
This post was originally published on September 11, 2009. Has it really been eight eleven years? I remember September 11, 2001 as if it were… …well, as if it were the horribly infamous day that it was. The morning dawned bright and sunny here in Minnesota. I went for a walk while the rest of my family slept, and brought home a caterpillar to … [Read more...]
Unexpected Empathy
I have written volumes about my feisty blonde brownie. (Her blog name is Angela but in real life, she shares her name with a hurricane.) This is fitting. The girl’s got spunk. What we forget, I think, as mothers, is that underneath those most predominant traits are softer, subtler qualities. Just because we don’t see them daily—because, … [Read more...]
A Little Liturgical Lesson
Today the Church celebrates the feast of the Nativity of Mary. In other words, Happy Birthday, Blessed Mother! One of the things that I talk about in my liturgical year presentation is keeping our feast day celebrations simple so that we actually do them. How simple (and delicious) is baking a birthday treat? It’s a piece of cake, right? And … [Read more...]
Taking Care of Busy-Ness
Am I safe in assuming that because I’ve been too busy to write, you (in turn) have been too busy to read? It’s an unspoken agreement we’ve reached, I think, and yet…not a very satisfying one. Goodness, though, have I been busy. Let’s talk yesterday. Hey, yesterday! Remember me? I’m the gal that you ran ragged. Yes, that one. You know. The one … [Read more...]
Thought (and Project) for the Day
My husband took the kids camping for the weekend so that I could get our classroom ready. Yes, I know. He’s a good, good man. However, being a highly distracted, ADD-type, I need to take the occasional break. Enter Meryl Streep’s amazing performance as former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the film, The Iron Lady. (Good, good movie—highly … [Read more...]
Pure Conjecture
If you tell your four children that the reason Mom started weeping at lunch is that she’s way overtired and needs a nap and that they MUST stay quiet and keep the 3-year-old happy… If you say this to them and your sweet 9-year-old daughter still comes up…and proceeds to stand at your bedside silently and stare at you with one of her hands on your … [Read more...]
Our Journey East cont.
Part II: Coastal Camping (Read Part I: Close Friends here.) It all started with a state study last fall. My daughters and I were learning about the Eastern regions and I said, “What do you know? Delaware was the first state!” And then I added, “We should go there.” It was a novel suggestion, really, although I did wonder if people … [Read more...]
Our Journey East
Part I: Close Friends Here we go! I do apologize for taking so long in talking about our trip. With our boys starting back to school last week and our girls starting up next Tuesday, it seems that I have less and less time for…well, for all the fun stuff. (This is not to say that cleaning one’s classroom and making sure one’s teenagers are doing … [Read more...]
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