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Archive: June 2008

Rust Stains

Last week our hot water suddenly ran rusty for a day or so.I noticed it when I was filling the washing machine for a soak load of Sophia’s clothes. Unfortunately, the clothes were in and the washer full before I noticed the strange dark color...

Sophia at Four Months

We had Sophie’s 4 month checkup this morning. She weighed in at 13 lbs, 8 oz. and is now 24 inches long. Perfectly healthy and happy. Well, not so happy about getting shots.
 

Book Review: A Cry of Stone

It seems I’m going to read Michael O’Brien’s Children of the Last Days series completely out of order. But that also seems to be fine as so far each of the books has stood on its own. A Cry of Stone only seems to connect...

A Mother’s Prayers

I recently found this prayer tucked away in the back of my Liturgy of the Hours volume. I must have printed it off from some website, but I have no memory of doing so and thus don’t recall where I found it. But I’ve started praying it...

Ave Maria Salad and the Religious Life of a Toddler

The Hail Mary is definitely Bella’s favorite prayer. She says it all the time: when she’s flipping through a book, when she’s playing with dolly and making dolly ‘say grace,’ when she hears an ambulance, when she sees a...

Reading Notes on The Religious Potential of the Child Ch 7

Prayer Not yet participating fully at Mass, prayer is the principal way [children] nourish their baptismal life and prepare, at the same time, for active involvement in the Mass, the highest and most complete form of prayer. First, Cavaletti says...

That was odd

Well, after I administered the Tylenol, Bella’s fever went down fairly quickly and she really perked up. She spent some time eating frozen grapes on the couch and drinking ice water while watching Madagascar and I was preparing to settle in to...

Sick Bella (Updated)

My girl who never gets sick is running a 102 fever. We came home from the bank this morning and rather than running about on the porch with her usual abandon while I sat and read, she stood near my chair and whined—not fussing for anything...

Finding Faith on the Web

A great article from Jen is up at Inside Catholic: Google and Ye Shall Find: The Internet and the New Evangelization: Having a background in Web site development and marketing, and having observed Internet culture for years, I believe a strong case...

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