also from Darwin Catholic, the first of a series of blog posts of Lenten meditations on the Divine Comedy. Though I read and enjoyed the Divina Commedia when I was in college, I’d never have thought of it as spiritual reading. I’ll...
Eureka! Sometimes the simplest things make life so much easier. Isabella hates, hates, hates having her face and hands wiped. But after one of her meals she needs it so that she doesn’t leave food smears everywhere. It’s a battle I...
I’ve been reading lots of parenting books in the past year. Hey, I’m a book geek; it’s what I do. And I’ve just been rubbed the wrong way by people who are strong proponents of Attachment Parenting. Not that the basic idea of...
We were out and about this morning, running errands and so we stopped for lunch at the Johnny Rockets at the mall. It’s a 50s themed burger joint, with jukeboxes at the tables and classic rock music. At one point the kitchen staff stopped and...
Homeschool blogger Wisteria asks her readers to make a list of their 25 must-keep children’s picture books. If you had to cull, and could only save 25, which ones would your children demand you save? It’s an interesting question. I have...
A little bit ago I posted that I’d finished ACFL and didn’t quite know what to make of it, especially of the ending. Then I finished Till We Have Faces, a book that is most unlike it, and while contemplating the puzzling endings of both...
I write a post about how well she’s been napping and we have one of those terrible nights. I suspected it was going to be bad when she first woke an hour and a half after I put her down. She went back to sleep pretty easily after I changed her...
Isabella has never been a good napper. For the first several months she pretty much slept while someone was holding her and that was it. If you tried to put her down, the eyes popped open and she started to wail. We’ve long suspected that...
Please say a prayer for my father-in-law. He was in an accident. Hit by a plow. It doesn’t sound critical. They’re deciding whether or not to admit him. But still. Update: He’s home from the hospital. No broken bones or internal...
