I love this video because it makes me look like the best homeschooling mom ever. Of course, we paint at most perhaps once a month. And I claim no credit for Bella’s feat of memorization. I suppose this is unschooling at its best. This morning...
That’s blog day not birthday. Today is the sixth birthday of The Wine Dark Sea. (I wrote a nice long retrospective last year on the fifth anniversary.) I am honored and privileged that my blog shares a birthday with one of my favorite blogs of...
While I’m thinking about pain and suffering, I’ve just remembered this piece as well: “You Will Call I Will Answer, which the Anchoress posted a bit ago and which I’ve been wanting to write about. It seems to me that what...
As the days grow fewer and fewer until baby Anthony’s birth date and my upcoming c-section, I’ve been thinking about pain. More, it’s been cropping up again and again in my reading. Specifically I’ve been finding passages...
Bella pronounced this her favorite song today. I think it is very sweet. One of the dearest hymns to Mary I’ve seen. These are the lyrics: J�irai la voir un jour! Au ciel dans ma patrie Oui j�irai voir Marie Ma joie et mons amour REFRAIN Au...
My brother and his girlfriend were in Pennsylvania this week visiting some of her relatives and to my great delight decided to drive up for a visit with us. Both native Texans who are not used to our Northerly weather, they were almost scared away...
I’m not trying to brag about how holy my kids are. They aren’t. Trust me. Nor about what a great teacher I am. I’m not. I scream and yell far too much for that. It’s one thing to teach them the words, another thing to teach...
My husband knows me well enough to just go ahead and buy me books for Christmas. (He also got me a lovely silver crucifix that I’d eyeballed at Aquinas and More.) Two were from my wishlist: Leaving My Beloved Children Behind by Takashi Nagai...
I’ve already titled a blog entry from this summer “The Life of Significant Soil” and that’s what I wanted to call this before I remembered that. I guess you can tell it’s one of my favorite lines. Since I can’t...
I’m having fun trying to be a stenographer, capturing the snippets of Bella playing with the figures in the nativity set. I can’t see what she’s doing. She’s on the other side of the Christmas tree. I have no idea who is...
