This post at Amy Welborn’s is from a while back, but I must have missed it while I was in the midst of catching up on my blog reading after our long Texas vacation. Amy passes on a request from a priest who asks how parishes can better provide...
The Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City has a beautiful shrine dedicated to children who died unborn that I hope to visit one day. You can click the link in the menu at the left of their page to take you to pictures of the shrine and of...
Screaming summons me into the living room. “What’s wrong?” I asked Dom, who’d been watching the baby, “Did she fall?” No, evidently, he’d wondered what the black object was that she’d been moving...
While my sister was here, she started to teach me the basics of knitting and crocheting. I decided the knitting was a bit too difficult to pick up in a week, so we stuck with crocheting. I pulled apart the first piece I did. But here’s a...
I’m on a roll today. Extreme closeup in mommy’s lap. I love her more with each new day. Though I’m still not sure how that is possible. Every day I look at her and marvel at the miracle of her life, at the miracle of love. Truly...
The flowers (and a mass card) were sent by the Dolans, our upstairs neighbors/landlords. A very nice Irish family who have looked out for me since I moved to Salem. Yes, the kitchen table is almost always that messy; but the flowers sure...
I took this photo of the view from our kitchen window. I liked the contrast between the sunny pineapple and our neighbor’s snowy backyard.
I just saw my first robin of the year on the fence outside the dining room window. Unfortunately, he was the only sign of spring. The ground is still covered in snow from Friday’s storm. I think I saw a snowdrop last week, but it’s...
In the Old Testament we read that at the time of Noah, since the entire human race was corrupt and full of lawlessness, the floodgates of the sky were opened and for forty days heavy rain poured down on the earth; symbolically, the...
I didn’t expect I would like How Children Learn. But it had been recommended by so many homeschoolers I like and admire, I decided to go ahead and give it a read anyway. I got a copy from bookmooch and figured at least I wasn’t spending...
