Here are a few of this year’s favorites. All of these picks meet the criteria that the girls love them but even more importantly that I look forward to re-reading them not only now but for many Christmases to come. Good King Wenceslas...
When I don’t have anything to say, I can still post cute photos. That’s why you come here anyway, isn’t it? Just so you can see how big Ben is next to Sophie. And here are the girls having a pretend snack on our bed while Ben...
I’m at Faith and Family Live today. Come on over and say hi.
The Virgin Mary has come to live at my house. Sometimes she also answers to the name Bella. Can you see the baby Jesus tucked in her mantle? Today she even dressed the part, wrapping herself in my lap blanket and cradling her ‘Baby...
Often in the evenings my sister minds Ben while Dom and I do the girls’ bedtime routine. Ben loves falling asleep face down on her lap. And she continues on with her crocheting and watching her shows on her lap top while he acts as a nice lap...
He is still the sweetest little man ever but what happened to that gorgeous head of dark hair? Poor guy is almost bald now.
I’m always amused when we have soup for dinner. Bella only wants to eat the broth and has to be coaxed to eat the chunks. Sophie has to have most of the broth drained or else it will spill all over. But between the two of them, they finish a...
Are you getting tired of snow pictures yet? Too bad. I’m not. We didn’t make it to Mass this morning. For obvious reasons. Instead we had a leisurely morning and watched the Sunday Mass at the Basiica at Notre Dame. Dom is loving his new...
None of these pictures captures the power of the wind blowing the snow sideways down the street.
Bella, standing on the stool next to me in the kitchen as I mix the cookie dough is talking to the statue of Mary that stands on the windowsill above the sink: “Holy Mary, we have a statue of you praying and another statue of you with your...
