Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we...
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The Secret Garden
by Francis Hodgson Burnett What an excellent book! A bossy, spoiled girl named Mary is living in India...
Accused of Being a ‘Becky’ While Minding My Own Business
I pass by the local middle school on my run route every morning. Yesterday, I ran by as they were doing...
What Virtue Would I Be Known For? A Dialogue Between Husband and Wife
One evening, I sat down across from my husband at the dining room table with a yellow pad and pen. He politely marked his place and put his book down, readying himself to humor me. “I was listening to the radio,” I said. “They were talking about saints and how...
A Seinfeld Script I wrote in High School
I’d come up with an episode for Seinfeld when I was in high school (which may or may not have been a little over twenty years ago). I vaguely remembered the plot I’d formulated but thought, for the most part, my youthful stint at comedic screen-writing was lost...
Top 10 Reasons Why I am a Blogging Horror Show
When I was young, I dreamed of going into the newspaper business, becoming an ace reporter and eventually, after years of hard work, winding up with my own nationally syndicated humor column. I wanted to be the Erma Bombeck and Dave Barry of my generation. And...
Giving Up Complaining, an Experiment
I like to listen to Dr. Ray Guarendi’s radio show in the morning when I’m making breakfast and doing dishes. One such morning, he talked about complaining and how most people do entirely too much of it. He suggested we try doing less of it. I reflected on...
The Couch I Loved and a Small death to Self
Sometimes a major spiritual battle in your life is over a couch. Years ago, after finding ourselves drowning in debt, we went on the Dave Ramsey plan. About a year into the Dave Ramsey plan, our couch died a miserable death. What had once been a presentable,...
I Wish God Sent (Notarized) Singing Telegrams
My husband has a good job. Well, good in the sense that it pays quite a bit of money. But, as sometimes happens with more money, there is more sacrifice. He has to work long hours and the work is difficult and the environment is pretty uncomfortable. We didn’t...
In which I answer a burning question on the minds of so many.
“How do you do it?” Is a question I am often asked. Usually they’re referring to my complete inability to frost a cake. But occasionally, they’re wondering how I keep up with my various projects while having a bunch of kids running wild through my house at all...
What does a Catholic home look like? Part 3
I dove right in to my new icon books (Christmas presents from the hubster). They were filled with very cool information. For instance, I did not know that before most people became literate, icons played a large part in helping to catechize them....
What does a Catholic home look like? Part 2
Dina and I were in the same mother’s group and Dina was hosting a get-together at her house. It was a beautiful house, tastefully decorated. I felt like I was walking around on a photo shoot for something like Better Homes and Gardens for this was certainly one of...