I pass by the local middle school on my run route every morning. Yesterday, I ran by as they were doing...
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22 April 2023
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...
Away Goes Sally
by Elizabeth Coatsworth Sally is a young...
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. Well, really, one question. After each parable they'd say, "What does that mean?" I wasn't sure what they meant. Some...
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 like a glutton. I had prayer goals that the Seraphim wouldn’t have been able to keep up with. The pile of books I...
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 twig. I can, but I won't... ...which leads me to what's written on these here tablets."
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 there little baby. You haven’t really gotten to know me. I am far from perfect and have many, many, many faults.” She...
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 planning again each year. Maybe there’s something about Christmas Carols, Christmas decor everywhere and the air almost...
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 a courtship in a little pea-green boat and ended in marriage. It appears #3 got something entirely different out of...
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 medicines to stop the hemorrhaging, but to no avail. The blood kept flowing. The doctor found some placental pieces left...
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 but hadn’t finished because I’ve had oatmeal-brain for the better part of a decade. It is a little known fact that it...
High Society Haunted House
“I love autumn dahling,” Nancy said from the back seat of their chauffeur driven Lincoln. “It’s perfect weather for pairing my leopard print dressing gown with open-toed heels.” “I know dahling,” Darcy said. “I’ve just been dying to wear this cheetah print dressing...