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Prayer Requests

For two wonderful Catholic blogger moms:
For Heather Price and her family who have sadly just lost a child.
For Jennifer F. who is expecting (and due about the same time as me) and who faces medical and financial difficulties.
Thank you.

Groundhog Day

This article by Michael P. Foley in Touchstone Magazine about Groundhog Day, the movie, made me think of my mom. It’s one of her favorite films. I’ve seen Catholic bloggers proposing GD as a film with Catholic sensibilities. It was nice...

A recent photo

Isabella just loves standing. She’s now pulling herself up anywhere she can—including some scary places, like on the top of the changing table, and some funny ones, like on me. And she’s so proud of herself once she achieves her...

Sick

Seems I never get a cold without it turning either to a sinus infection or bronchitis or both. And that’s when I stuff myself full of all sorts of over the counter drugs. To make matters a bit more complicated, I took a pregnancy test last...

New Photos

Bella meets Uncle Tim This was the first time my brothers met Isabella. They were both quite enchanted with her. Bella in the big tub We didn’t have the baby tub with us, so in Texas Bella got to be a big girl and take a bath in the big tub...

Games and Diversions

My sister gave Isabella a couple of very cute finger puppets for Christmas, a hedgehog and an ostrich. At first Bella would have nothing to do with the ostrich chick, though she loved the hedgehog. Now she’s pulled the ostrich out of the toy...

A Trifecta of Distopian Literature

Odd that the first three books I’ve completed in 2007 have been speculative fiction of the distopian persuasion. I hope it isn’t an omen of things to come. When we were in Texas, I read Dies the Fire and The Protector’s War by S. M...

More Life with Bella

Yesterday Isabella managed to pull herself up to stand at the coffee table in the living room. I tried to get a picture; but she’d fallen before I could get the camera out. Today I woke up feeling rotten, stuffy nose, sore throat, achy body...

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