Sunday morning on our way to Mass Dom commented on the sign at the corner pharmacy advertising Valentines Day merchandise, wondering if people really buy Valentines stuff this far in advance of the holiday. That got us talking about all these secularized holidays and how cut off they are from their roots in authentic Christian […]
This is my third post about Bed and Board: Plain Talk about Marriage by Robert Farrar Capon. In a way it’s also a sort of response to some of the posts that have been flying about a certain corner of the blogosphere about domestic arts and homemaking and button sewing. If you don’t know what […]
Continuing to read Bed and Board: Plain Talk about Marriage by Robert Farrar Capon Here’s a section from the chapter titled “Board.” It struck me especially this week as we sat down to our Thanksgiving dinner. The table enters the exchange of the family exactly as the stage enters into the ballet: as a thing, […]
So I’ve been slowly inching my way through The Little Oratory. (I’m almost done with the other book I’m reading for to months and when I’ve done with that then I’m sure I’ll finish up The Little Oratory fairly quickly.) If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know I’ve blogged […]
I really liked the daily records I kept last week, but don’t know that I want to make them a daily blog post. That takes more time each day than I want to devote to it. So this week I’m going to try to just make one weekly post with each day’s notes in a […]
This morning Dom came to get me up around 7:30 or 8. Lucia’s been having rough nights and I was not an early riser. I lingered in bed, nursing her and trying to say morning prayer. Unfortunately the furnace was off and wouldn’t restart. Dom had to take a cold shower and called the furnace […]
From my mom, a beautiful article by a woman in my dad’s Carmelite community. Something about the way she frames things…. I want to be more prayerful and intentional in my work. Things to ponder. When my kids were small, I used to go with them one room at a time to work with them […]
My newly tidied iris bed. I didn’t pull most of the weeds up by the roots, so they’re bound to come back quickly. But when I dig up the bulbs to split them, I can get more of the weeds out too. Even though there were piles of dirty laundry and all the unpacking and […]
While I cooked the kids made trains out of the linking cubes. Yesterday I declared a sick day. Not that that’s much different from any other day round here except for my attitude I guess. But I felt sick so I was looking forward to sitting in a chair most of the day. Then I […]