This was just so beautiful, I just had to share. My Lord, God, You have led me by a long, dark path, Rocky and hard. Often my strength threatened to fail me. I almost lost all hope of seeing the light. But when my heart grew numb with deepest grief...
Please notice the sweet boys and ignore the goofy hat. I much prefer my broad brimmed sunhat but with Anthony in the Ergo, I figured he wouldn’t want the brim poking into his face. So the floppy hat it was, which has since lost whatever...
Finally getting around to uploading a bunch of videos off my camera. I seem to go through phases of taking lots of video and then months will pass when I take nothing at all. Then suddenly I’ll have those thoughts you don’t like to...
When I first began to pray the Liturgy of the Hours Easter and Christmas were a revelation. I never before knew that each of these feasts was not a single day but an octave, a celebration that is so huge and earth-shattering that it takes a full...
I’ve begun reading Rumer Godden’s doll story, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, to Sophie and Bella. The first chapter absolutely captivated them and immediately afterwards I noticed Sophie changing the way she played with her baby doll...
Front Door by Bella. This picture is hanging up in the hall. Bella put it there. Bella says she wants to be an artist and a scientist. I can see her blossoming in both realms. She loves making her own art and can spend hours studying art in various...
Ben the early bird gets first crack at the toys. A truck! Ben plays with the pinwheels while Anthony looks on. The Easter chicks and bunnies were gifts from family several Easters ago. I store them away at the end of Easter so they are new every...
Bella decided to decorate for Holy Week. She cut out this cross and hung it in her bedroom window. Then she cut out pictures of Holy Mary and St Mary Magdalene and others and hung them around the house: on the front door, in the living room window...
Well we survived Easter vigil with four kids. Though not without Anthony falling and cutting his mouth on the edge of the pew right at the beginning of Father’s homily, occasioning a humorous aside from Father chastising Anthony for...
1. After months and months I finally finished Middlemarch!!!! It was a good novel and, though I’m not in love with it, I’m still pondering it. I don’t think Eliot will ever be my favorite British novelist but I do admire her...
