This afternoon Sophie finished the first set of Bob books. She has gained so much confidence as a reader and is eager to jump into the next set tomorrow. I felt like throwing her a party. Then tonight it was like a switch flipped on in...
CREDO: Professing the Creed beyond the Year of Faith HE WILL COME AGAIN IN GLORY by Melanie Bettinelli and Theresa Scott [I’m doing something a bit different here. Trying to think how to write this post, I had a long IM chat...
I think I’ve read 68 of the books on the list. It might be more, but if I’ve read the ones I’ve crossed out, then I’ve since forgotten. I bolded the books that would definitely be on my top 100. Some day I might write up my...
CREDO: Professing the Creed for the Year of Faith So now the Year of Faith is drawing to a close and I find myself with my Creed series abandoned, half-finished. This is not the way I wanted it to end. But maybe it doesn’t have to end...
Since Bella liked Stories of Beowulf Told to Children, I thought she might like diving into the real thing. One evening I pulled my copy of Heaney’s translation of Beowulfoff the shelf and read out the first lines. Yes, I think it might do, I...
I’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to write of late. This post is now more than a week old. Time to just publish it already, even if I don’t have the links. Now that I have finished reading her The Chronicles of Narnia , Bella...
We were chatting with Father Matt after Mass today and as he was asking about how everything is going, we happened to mention that Bella had been preparing for her first confession and telling him she was about ready. And he jokingly asked if she...
My friend Meghan organized a play date today. She invited us to join her and her kiddos at Wellesley College’s greenhouses. She discovered them on a grim wintery day when she wanted somewhere warm and green to escape to and the college was...
Anthony and Sophie at the playground In our latest round of troubleshooting Anthony’s sleep issues: We’ve found that he needs the light out to go to sleep. Ben needs it on. So now Anthony reads in bed until Ben falls asleep then comes...
1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. An artist is illustrating Eliot’s poem as a graphic novel. The pictures are lovely, a beautiful realization. (And I’ve got a little...