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Archive: October 2009

Detail Oriented

This afternoon when my sister was getting ready to go to work Bella asked, “Where are you going?” My sister replied that she was going to work and Bella told her that she was wearing the wrong shoes. “No I’m not,” my...

Our Lady of the Rosary

I printed off one of Charlotte’s lovely coloring pages for today. Bella was thrilled. (Once I got the printer to work.) With no prompting from me, Bella found some rose stickers for Mary and stuck them all over the page. And then she grabbed...

Gingerbread Men

Yesterday morning found us reading one of our favorite books: The Gingerbread Man as told by by Jim Aylesworth with beautiful illustrations by Barbara McClintock. I’m not sure if this is the version of the story I had read to me in my...

Swings

We were up and out very early this morning—early as in 8:00, as in I’m usually not even dressed yet—dropping my sister off for a minor medical procedure that required some sedation. After we dropped her off (big screams from Sophie...

Alarums and Excursions

It happened again last night. Two am I woke to loud sobbing and poked Dom, whispering, “Someone’s crying.” That’s the deal. I get Ben when he cries but Dom gets the girls unless they’re asking for me. However I woke up...

Smelling the Roses

We woke this morning to find this snail climbing up the back door. The girls were fascinated. So was I. I spied this impressive spider web from my chair. Sophie went out with me to snap a photo of the web (I ended up going with a shot from inside...

Bella’s Dinner Party

When Dom went in to tell Bella it was time for bed, he found that she’d laid out a dinner party on the toy chest in her room. Bella offers me a bowl. She’d spread out a blanket for a table cloth, used the top of the plastic box where she...

Ben Bats at Rattles

Ben bats at rattles from Domenico Bettinelli on Vimeo. I put Ben down on the play mat for the first time this week and he loved it. He totally surprised us last night by playing there perfectly happy, lots of coos and gurgles and little laughs...

Thoughts on Miscarriage and St Francis

Mrs Darwin shares a beautiful column about miscarriage by Father Rob Waller. No words can take away the pain of miscarriage, although faith and time can lessen it. Some parents find the words of St. Bernard of Clairveuax helpful. He wrote to a...

Concerning Father Christmas

This is one of those geeky posts in which I get all excited about connecting the dots and learning something new. One of Bella’s current favorite A.A. Milne’s poems is “King John’s Christmas”. Here’s a bit of it:...

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