True confession time: I’ve been kind of dreading the return to Ordinary Time. I love singing the Regina Caeli so much. Love it love it love it. I didn’t want to give up the pretty chant, letting my voice soar to heaven with the glorious...
This morning before Mass Bella was flipping through The Water Hole by Graeme Base and telling me a story. I was quite impressed by the yarn she was spinning. A story about a mother frog and her babies (called Shark and Lobster and Fish) and how all...
Urgent prayers please for my mother-in-law, Virginia. The ER doctor lied last night, said he’d called her doctor when he hadn’t, and sent her home instead of admitting her. Now she’s back in hospital this morning with major...
Today is the fifth anniversary of Bella’s baptism. We aren’t doing anything elaborate or fancy but last night before I went to bed I unpacked her baptism candle and put it in a candlestick on the dining table. This morning she found a...
Today I saw someone recommend the book A Mother’s Rule of Life in a comment thread on Abigail’s excellent post about the problem with advice and the need for the life of grace. I sort of cringe whenever I see someone breathlessly...
I’ve been thinking more about Bella playing with the modelling clay and her retelling of the Easter story. It really gets to the heart of what the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd is about. I tend to get so caught up in the details and the...
Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates And What You Can Do About It by Gabor Mate M.D. If we choose not to see ADD as a medical disorder or illness, the question of causation is turned around and examined from the opposite angle...
This morning in his homily Father told a story of visiting a friend, a mother of four. She told him about a little guest she’d had earlier that day, a boy who kept saying, “Oh my God!” Finally she pulled him aside asked him if he...
More excellent thoughts fromPope Benedict on the family and catechizing children: . . . the family and the Church – in practice, parishes and other forms of Ecclesial Community – are called to collaborate more closely in the fundamental...
Last week I made some impulse buys in the art supplies aisle at Target. Among other things I bought some paints and some modelling clay. Yesterday Bella was desperate to get into the modelling clay, even though she didn’t really know what it...
