Hooray!!! I finally cut and pieced the binding strips for Sophie’s quilt yesterday afternoon, machine stitched them to the front of the quilt, and began to hand stitch them to the back. I had the whole quilt, pieced and tied, finished except...
DAFFODOWNDILLY She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned toward the south wind And curtsied up and down. She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: “Winter is dead.”...
Reading Bella her naptime story. Sophie insists on climbing into Bella’s bed with her. Bella sits with her pillow propped against the headboard, blankets drawn over her lap, and turns the pages of a picture book while I read Pooh. Sophie...
After Mass he greeted my sister and mentioned seeing her at the Eucharistic Congress on Friday. She said that she hadn’t seen him. He replied that he’d been sitting in the back during the nun’s talk. “Which nun was that...
Finally, a sunny day! We’ve been inundated with April showers all this week. Yesterday the sun broke through a couple of times; but it was generally gray gloom and mud. Though I did notice new blooms in the front bed when I ducked out...
Some thoughts inspired by Jennifer at Conversion Diary, who recently wrote about creating a dedicated prayer space in the home and asked her readers: Do any of you have a special place for prayer set aside in your homes? Any tips for getting...
Check out this lovely piece by Alice Gunther on the importance of storytelling: Perhaps one of the blessings of family stories is that, when told by a loving storyteller, we are able to grasp something better and more real than could be conveyed by...
I’ve started keeping a pair of binoculars by the back door because all too often I spy an interesting bird that is just a bit too far away for me to see clearly enough to identify. Today I’m pretty sure I spotted a tufted titmouse...
