My girl is four weeks old today!!! I am so very much in love with her. Here are a few pictures from the last couple of weeks. She continues to be a very calm quiet baby. She doesn’t cry much. She sleeps an awful lot. When she is awake she...
CREDO: Professing the Creed for the Year of Faith FOR US MEN AND OUR SALVATION by Jen Ambrose Some years ago, I was enrolled in a graduate course focused on Liturgy. Our professor assigned a paper and presentation based on one aspect of the...
CREDO: Professing the Creed for the Year of Faith CONSUBSTANTIAL WITH THE FATHER by Jeff Miller One of the most remarked about changes in the English translation of the Creed that was introduced at the start of Advent in 2011 was the use of...
Well my first attempt to write a post full of my favorite links shared on Facebook was a resounding success. What a great conversation we got going there. Since I promised that I’d follow up with more if there was a general interest...
Ben and Anthony playing with Saturday night’s Crawfish dinner. Yesterday marks eight years since the first entry I wrote on this blog. Eight years. Wow! Last year I wrote a retrospective blog post. I don’t feel up to that this year. I...
Recently I’ve found myself lamenting the way my blogging has changed in the wake of Facebook. I used to share links to all the various cool things I found on my blog. Now all those links go to Facebook. It wasn’t so much a decision as...
My family has always exchanged presents at Epiphany (Christmas giving was reserved for Santa). I really wanted to keep that beloved tradition, though I do it in a much more subdued way than my mom. So for each of the kids I got a little religious...
I’m not sure I have enough to say to fill seven quick takes, but we’ll just see what happens. ONE Lucia is the calmest, sweetest baby ever. She almost never cries. A bit of a fuss for a messy diaper or when she’s hungry, but...
CREDO: Professing the Creed for the Year of Faith BEGOTTEN NOT MADE by Emily Cook When Pope Benedict first declared this the year of faith, I thought it would be easy to fulfill his request to study the creed. Sure, I’ll try to spend a little...
Today Lucia had her follow up visit with the pediatrician. She’s back up to her birth weight and the heart murmur they were keeping an eye on has closed. She is a perfectly healthy little girl and a very happy calm baby. The visit was the...
