I don’t remember why I picked this up, I have a vague recollection of reading something on someone’s blog. Then I shelved it and forgot about it for a while. It’s not the sort of thing I usually read. Generally I avoid best sellers...
from Jesus of Nazareth During the time when Israel was deprived of land and Temple, God—according to the traditional criteria—could not compete with other gods, for a god who had no land and could not be worshiped was not a god at all...
This afternoon after nap time we dropped Isabella at Dom’s sister’s house and snuck off to see Indiana Jones. We brought Sophia with us because she’s still nursing on demand and I couldn’t be sure she wouldn’t get...
Dom was getting ready to take Bella out to play this morning and started looking for her shoes. And I I realized with growing dread that I’d left them by the pool yesterday when I was putting her swimsuit on. She was getting quite frantic as...
A rich man came to Christ and questioned him about eternal life, but on learning the high cost of attaining perfection, he went away in sorrow because of his great wealth. Then, when Christ said that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye...
A busy Sunday. Cousins’ birthday party, Theresa turned three and Joseph is thirteen. A warm day so all the kids were in the pool. I never made it into my suit, too much looking after baby Sophie. Even with all the arms eager to hold her, I...
How could I resist an article with that title? My own love affair with literature began with a matchmaker named Eleanor Leonard, the children’s librarian in my home town. One day I walked into the library with a Nancy Drew mystery. Mrs...
Isabella’s new Radio Flyer wagon from Domenico Bettinelli on Vimeo. Yesterday afternoon, after Dom put it together, Isabella took the new wagon for a spin. She even shared it with her little sister! The wagon was a birthday present from...
I shall praise the Savior’s glory, of His flesh the mystery sing, and the blood, all price excelling, shed by our immortal King; God made man for our salvation, Who from virgin pure did spring. Born for us, and for us given, born a man like us...
Dom and I woke up this morning to Bella crying in her crib, not an unusual alarm clock around here. I’d been up at 5 with Sophie so it was Dom’s turn. He went in and found that Bella had taken off her pajamas, opened the diaper box at...
