We had a very good day yesterday. 8:30 mass was nice, music selection was actually pretty good. Nothing too cringe-worthy. Not too crowded but a few more faces than usual. (I’m sure the 10:30 was packed.) They even read the sequence! Then home...
Bella had a very rough night on Saturday. She woke up at 11:30 and cried until after 1. At which point, knowing we had to be up for mass and had a busy day visiting family ahead of us, I gave in to her screaming and nursed her back to sleep. She...
Here Isabella is in her Easter dress (a lovely hand-me-down from her cousin Theresa). Isabella and her Daddy right after mass on Easter Sunday. I had to snap the picture quickly before Dom’s suit disappeared. Isabella and her Easter...
He is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!!! Alleluia!!!
This morning I was down on the floor playing with Bella and, suddenly inspired, I stood her up at arm’s length in front of me. Then I let go and coaxed, “Walk to Mama,” and she took three little steps and tumbled, giggling, into my...
I love this ancient homily, the second reading in today’s Office of Readings. Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is...
This slide show is from pictures I took back in February. The shelf she’s in front of is my little library of children’s books, both those I’ve kept from my own childhood and those I’ve begun to collect for Isabella. As you...
Yesterday morning Bella and I met my brother- and sister-in-law and their kids at the The North Shore Children’s Museum in downtown Salem. A good time was had by all. My nieces, Kateri (6) and Chiara (4) had fun playing dress up (What girl can...
I created this little slide show from pictures I snapped of Bella at dinner one night while my sister was here last month. (That’s my sister, Theresa, kissing Bella in a couple of the shots.) The pictures were all so cute, I couldn’t...
Her latest sounds are disturbing me. She’s been making this noise that I’m pretty sure is an imitation of my clearing my throat. It’s a fakey kind of imitation throat clearing, cuh, huh, huh, that really grates. Then there’s...
