Jen links to Vocation Station, a wonderful vocations blog which has collected a great assortment of vocation videos and links to other resources for those discerning the call to religious life. Some of the videos seem to have been produced by the...
We had a quiet but joyful Easter this year, the first Easter in many years I’ve been able to spend with my parents. My dad flew in Saturday night and we had a simple dinner of Dominos pizza, much to Isabella’s delight. Sophie...
Friday night and again last night at bedtime Bella finally gifted me with the four magic words that every mother longs to hear from the moment she knows she’s expecting: I Uv Ooo, Mama.
from the Bettinelli family
Bella’s latest preoccupation has been diapering her dolly. Previously the dolly wore a diaper but mommy and daddy were responsible for putting it on and “fixing it” when it came off. But the diaper came off during the time I was in...
From today’s Office of Readings, an excerpt from the Catecheses by St. John Chrysostom. If we wish to understand the power of Christ�s blood, we should go back to the ancient account of its prefiguration in Egypt. �Sacrifice a lamb without...
Bella is currently engaged in scraping imaginary snow off her chair with a plastic pear, “Snow off, snow off,” she says (just like mommy scrapes snow off the car). Then she climbs into the chair, “Shut the doors. Go. Bye, bye...
Elizabeth Foss writes: “Some year, I’m actually going to get to pick my Lent. ” I know exactly what she means. I realized early on that I wasn’t going to get to pick my Lent this year. The third year in a row when I’d...
Over at The Bonny Glen Melissa Wiley is hosting a fascinating discussion about parenting from a Catholic perspective. I was especially interested in this comment where she elaborated a bit on the connection she sees between unschooling and Catholic...
