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Snowflake Buttons!

by Filed Under: Food and Drink, Minnesota Me, Special Events 10 Comments

It seems fitting that, after seeing Charlotte link to a virtual cookie exchange hosted by Catholic Cuisine, I share the recipe that she inspired.(Thank you, Charlotte!)I have seen these yummy treats pop up all over the Internet; in fact, the first recipe in this exchange is a variation. (Very cute candy cane dots, Jessica!) Have you ever made … [Read more...]

Back-to-Back Birthdays?

by Filed Under: Felicity, Minnesota Me, My Girls, Special Events 10 Comments

Try simultaneous!Hers and hers matching presents: Sewing kits from Hancock Fabrics!I apologize (to no one in particular) for how infrequently I’ve been blogging. Life’s been kinda/sorta crazy-busy—in a good but definite way. Still, I wanted to get this birthday post up—for the girls, for me, for Great Grandma B.Except that Great Grandma B. doesn’t … [Read more...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

by Filed Under: Gratitude, Minnesota Me, Special Events 8 Comments

May your day be filled with the love of family, and may you love your family for who they are;May your plate be full and your heart, equally so;And may you look for laughter in those little moments...while keeping one eye on your wine glass at all times.PS. I call this photo "Carpe Vino." It's Angela, of course, and was taken four years ago on … [Read more...]

In which I question my homemaking and prepare for three days of Feasting

by Filed Under: Felicity, Keeping It Real, Minnesota Me, My Girls, Special Events 13 Comments

Updated to Add: It just occurred to me that this title sounds like a reference to Thanksgiving. It’s not! I can’t even think about Thanksgiving until we’re finished with these two birthdays.Lawda mercy, but it’s true. Here we go again.Yesterday was my daughter Cate’s 10th birthday.Today we celebrate Felicity’s 8th.It’s crazy, it’s busy, it’s … [Read more...]

Christ the King

by Filed Under: Minnesota Me, Special Events, Spiritual Growth Leave a Comment

In honor of today’s great feast…You may well have already seen this, as it’s been “out there” for a couple weeks now.Still, I cry every time I see it.Today is one of those feasts where I feel—acutely—my shortcomings as a Christian. I want to be bolder in proclaiming Our Lord’s kingship; I want to submit; I want to know. What does it mean that He’s … [Read more...]

Salt and Light

by Filed Under: Minnesota Me, Special Events, Spiritual Growth, The Faith 9 Comments

We are all called to be...“I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people and tongue.”Happy feast of All the Saints!!!(What? You thought I wouldn’t use exclamation points?!)As I told my son on the way to his school, (poor kid, he doesn’t have the day off like the rest of us), “Don’t forget to pray to … [Read more...]

Clearing the Cobwebs

by Filed Under: Just Me, Minnesota Me, Special Events, Stuff I Think About While Folding Laundry 6 Comments

It's a funny time of the year, isn't it? The streets are crowded with ghouls & ghosts while the church halls are filled with pint-sized saints.(We'll celebrate both the secular on Sunday and the sacred on Monday, which, I am DISMAYED to discover, is not a holy day of obligation this year. Aargh and aargh and I'm very frustrated.)(But I … [Read more...]

A Betsy-Tacy Kind of Day

by Filed Under: Friends of the Heart, Minnesohta, Minnesota Me, Special Events 24 Comments

I have not read the Betsy-Tacy books.As such, my spending the day in Mankato, Minnesota (birthplace of author Maud Hart Lovelace) with Lovelace historian Kathleen Baxter and Betsy-Tacy savant Melissa Wiley……was either an act of bravery or leap of stupidity.Or both.Have you read the Betsy-Tacy books? Have you been to Mankato, Minnesota? You really … [Read more...]