A child, like your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it.
-Frank A. Clark
Put a three month old baby in an Exersaucer and watch her lunge about trying to put everything into her mouth at once. Including the objects that are not supposed to go into mouths. Tongue sticking out, little grunts of effort. Adorable. Until she...
I’ve been meaning for some time to start occasionally posting some poems. To get myself back into the habit of reading poetry and to share those poems with my few but faithful readers. This morning Danielle Bean sadly announced the death of...
This past spring we were doing a lot of baby sitting for my sister-in-law as she had frequent doctor visits with her high-risk pregnancy. Finally she left the ExerSaucer at our house so she wouldn’t have to lug it back and forth. Now she...
I guess this is a milestone. Bella is letting me get enough sleep at night that I finally had enough energy yesterday to tackle the kitchen and give it the thorough cleaning I’ve been dying to do for months. I started just after breakfast. It...
I finally finished it last night! Dom says he can’t remember me ever taking so long on a book. Now I can finally return it to the library and stop racking up the late charges. (It seems silly to me that there’s a limit to the number of...
Today I dressed Isabella in a pretty dress that came with a very adorable little hat. After mass I just had to pull out the camera and snap some pictures. We’ve discovered that the video camera can take a few still shots. I filled up the card...
I couldn’t agree more. From The Common Room blog: I have a simple theory about children’s crafts. That is, if it is the sort of thing they might do as adults, then it’s a handicraft. If it isn’t, then it’s clutter...
At the First Things blog Michael Novak writes about W. B. Yeats: I would not assert that Frank O�Malley or Fr. Keena listed W.B. Yeats as a Catholic writer. But I would even then, back in the 1950s, have enjoyed the challenge to show convincingly...
No one’s tagged me yet; but I wanna play. from the Summa Mamas Go here, to the random quotes generator, and look through random quotes until you find five that you think: a) reflect who you are OR b) what you believe. We all have a few...