I tried, I really did, to keep track of everything I read this year and I think I did a fairly credible job, though I am also positive that something or other has slipped through the cracks. Now that I go back to look at the year I’m kind of...
So here are a few of my favorite people celebrating in their own inimitable ways. Bella sings the Twelve Days of Christmas to Sophie. Sophie sings with the pretend pencil people: “… day our earth sets down in the wind… Now...
It seems like it’s been forever since I’ve done a quick takes post. 1. This week in the stable: The angel, St Joseph, and the donkey are going for a ride in the school bus while Mary changes Baby Jesus’ poopy diaper. 2...
For Christmas Dom gave me a new website. It’s the best kind of present because I can share it with all my friends. I don’t like change much and so the new blog isn’t radically different. Think of it more as a facelift. The banner...
The table on Christmas Eve. We had our traditional Christmas Eve feast, the modified Feast of Seven Fishes. This year it was four: lobster, shrimp, stuffed clams, and baccala (codfish stew). I realized that this is the one festive meal we have as a...
As I mentioned before, my little brother recently got engaged. He and his fiance just set a date for the wedding, next September. (Yay!) After the excitement died down a bit and as I had time to start thinking through all the steps they will be...
Too good not to steal. Mrs. Darwin shares a passage from a sermon of John Donne, Christmas Day 1624: God made Sun and Moon to distinguish seasons, and day, and night, and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons: But God...
Well last night we we survived Midnight Mass with four children with not a single child fall asleep or needed to be taken out. In fact no one fussed at all. Or at least not what anyone but me would have called fussing. Ben did whine and complain in...
One of my current favorite Advent/Christmas songs is People, Look East. I’ve been trying to learn all the words and so have been singing it over and over and over again. The funny thing is I used to think it was a dumb song because all I heard...
Recently Daria of the Coffee and Canticles blog had a lovely post titled Worth Doing Badly in which she responds to a promoter of the Liturgy of the hours who stressed the importance of praying on a schedule, finding a quiet time and place for...
