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On Being One (Part II)

by Filed Under: Growing Up, Minnesota Me, New Baby 7 Comments

So yeah. I’m definitely more comfortable with crawling at this point.Hey, everybody’s different! Mom says that my brother Joe was walking by his first birthday and so was my sister Cate.The rest of my siblings, though? Slackers all, like me!In fact, my sister Felicity had a nickname. Mom and Dad called her “the paperweight” because wherever you sat … [Read more...]

On Being One (Part I)

by Filed Under: Growing Up, Minnesota Me, New Baby 6 Comments

Hey! There’s a great big yard back there.You know what I’m thinking? I’m thinking I’m gonna just go on down and have some fun.I’m thinking I need to be down in that grass. I’m thinking I’m gonna walk down there. I’m gonna do it! I’m totally gonna walk down there!What? You don’t believe me?Fine. I’m letting go now.See? I did it. Now I just need to … [Read more...]

Budding Botanists

by Filed Under: Homeschooling, Minnesota Me 2 Comments

I know from experience that my children—indeed, I think most children—love nothing more than to rip apart a dying plant.*You’ve heard the expression, “It’s a dying art?” Same difference. There is a latent need for dissection hidden in every one of us, especially geeky science-minded homeschoolers.A need to know what’s going on inside.A need to … [Read more...]

Stand and Be Counted (Part II)

by Filed Under: Friends of the Heart, Minnesota Me, Special Events 3 Comments

An online friend has a birthday today...…and it’s a nice round number, to boot. ; )Alicia (aka Love2Learn Mom) is exactly the sort of smart Catholic blogger that we need in the Church today—a homeschooling mom who is as engaging as she is erudite and as down-to-earth as she is devout.Her writing, which can be found at both the popular Love2Learn … [Read more...]

Stand and Be Counted

by Filed Under: Growing Up, Minnesota Me, New Baby 17 Comments

And just in time for his first birthday, too!(which is in one week from yesterday)What’s up with all that stuff in the background, I’m wondering? You’d think that, I don’t know, we were moving or something.We’re not, by the way.We just like to pretend that we are on the Internet. Oh and hey, I should probably come up with a pseudonym for “New Baby” … [Read more...]