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Applewood Doll Hospital Blog
15 April 2023
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...
A Sourdough Loaf of Lies and a Journey Towards Food Independence
My grocery store made a bold...
Charles Dickens
by GK Chesterton This was a near perfect...
The Builders
Matt 7: 24-27 Luke 6: 47-49 “Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock; ...
The Parables Project Introduction
One Easter, I bought a children's book of the New Testament parables to read aloud to the kids. All went well until they started asking questions. ...
Sometimes Lent Comes Looking for You
The first couple of Lents after my reversion to the Catholic faith were pretty intense. I undertook fasting diets that would have made Gandhi look...
In which I comment on a Magnificat cover
I love this painting of Moses! He looks so based! "Yes I am a man wearing both pink and lavender. Say something. I dare you. I can snap you like a...
Don’t Look at Me, Little Baby!
When my baby looks at me with a look of absolute love and adoration it can, at times, make me a little uncomfortable. I say to her, “Now calm down...
This Year, It’s Going to Be a Good Advent
Advent never goes as planned for us. Never. Not a single Advent. Not a one since we’ve started celebrating Advent. That doesn’t stop me from...
A Second Grade Interpretation
One of #3's assignments last week was to illustrate the poem he'd memorized called 'The Owl and the Pussycat'. It was a love story that started with...
I Asked for This
Following the birth of my most recent baby, I wouldn’t stop bleeding. Anxious medical personnel weighed Chux pads and injected me with various...
The Way of Perfection via Postpartum Motherhood
While pregnant, I started a book by Saint Theresa of Avila on contemplative prayer called The Way of Perfection. It was a book I’d bought years ago...