I’m not usually one for New Year’s resolutions; but today Dom was toying with the idea of resolving to write a blog post every day. I admonished him, saying I thought it was perhaps too ambitious a goal. But I guess the idea lingered in...
On Friday we went to the Museum of Science. Dom and Bella really wanted to see the new Global Kitchen exhibit. I really wanted to see the IMAX documentary on Jerusalem. Dom had seen the documentary for work (they did an episode of the radio show...
Glancing back over the Christmas photos I’ve posted in the last few days, the contrast struck me last night: how very pretty they all were and how very messy the rest of life is, the stuff the photos don’t show: the pine needles on the...
We are still celebrating Christmas. . . . I was baptized. Little did my parents know when they took me to church on Dec 26 for my baptism that four years later my little sister would be born on the same day. Nor that they would name their youngest...
On Facebook someone posted a link to an article that compared the most requested gifts on kids’ Santa wish lists from 1913 and 2013. With the exception of the Duplos that Anthony got, I think just about everything under our tree was or could...
Our Christmas Eve dinner. Feast of the five(ish) fishes. Lucia meets her first lobster. When opened the door to to leave for Mass it was snowing! A small Christmas miracle. It only snowed for a few minutes, it was done by the time we got to church...
“Once there was a girl who was a slave.” Bella wants to practice her reading and writing by telling a story via whiteboard message. She writes one sentence, then I write the next. We’ll see if we get past the first exchange. I fear...
Abraham, our father in faith: Faith opens the way before us and accompanies our steps through time. Hence, if we want to understand what faith is, we need to follow the route it has taken, the path trodden by believers, as witnessed first in the Old...
Waiting for bath with big brother photobomb. Lucia loves frozen blueberries. All my kids do. Lucky me. They’re great healthy snack and an easy way to get the kids to eat more fruit. But they are a bit messy. Especially when you eat them with...
Snow Lucia and Bella watche Ben playing in the snow Blogging has been slow. And there’s no good reason except that by the time the kids are in bed I no longer feel like writing. Or, as it’s gotten colder, I’ve been retreating to...
