This morning as I was cooking breakfast I heard Sophie talking to herself at the table: “…I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity…” I looked over to see her pouring intently over a little rosary pamphlet, her finger...
More pictures from last week. This time from a visit to the playground. Or was that the week before last? It is all a blur now. But I’m looking back in wonderment: Was it really that warm? Now it almost seems a dream. The kids in short sleeves...
Part I: Brother Ass and the Midnight Mommy Vigil Last night started off so promising; but I was skeptical right from the start that it would really be as easy as all that. Anthony was falling asleep at dinner so I went to put him down while everyone...
Anthony, get that stick out of your mouth! Seriously, baby, you’re going to hurt yourself! This has been a strange year altogether. We had almost no snow this winter and it was unbelievably mild. Even February, which usually drags in endless...
Everyone, including me, has a bit of a cold: runny noses, coughs, sore throats. Poor Anthony has it the worst. Of course this means that nighttime is worse than ever. Anthony, who was sleeping through the night more than not, screamed for hours on...
This morning my video camera caught my pajama-clad children playing a wonderful firefighter game. Sophie was riding Ben’s firetruck back and forth across the house and Bella and Ben and Anthony were all accompanying her in a wild band. Ben and...
While waiting in the car at the convenience store after Mass yesterday (while Dom buys milk and eggs for Sunday-morning-after-church-pancakes) I heard Bella spinning a story to Sophie and Ben: “The little child who didn’t know any better...
Tomorrow morning (Wednesday, March 21 at 9:15 AM, to be exact) Abigail is going to be welcoming beautiful Baby Clare into the world. This will be her fifth c-section. As a fellow member of the multiple c-section club, I know the pre-op anxiety all...
This baby terrifies me. I’ve had to block off the bottom of the ladder because he keeps making a beeline to it. At the same time, I do love watching him master a new skill. And the joy on his face and the pride in his voice after he’d...
Today’s first reading was from the book of Ezekiel, one of my favorite passages about the streams of water flowing out from the side of the Temple. One line in particular grabbed me: Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of every kind...
