Friday afternoon. Louis Armstrong’s playing the West End Blues, my favorite. A pot of vegetable soup simmering on the stove. Bella’s clapping her hands and begging for a snack. Things are pretty cozy.
Today we met a group of friends from church for a picnic in the park and a dip in the wading pool. Dom got to come with us, because archdiocesean employees get feast days off. We sat at picnic tables outside of the pool area to eat. Isabella...
Matilda has requested pictures of Kitchen Madonnas. I wrote and told her that I don’t have a Madonna in my kitchen, but I do have several religious images that serve as reminders to pray as I work and to strive to make my home an imitation of...
This morning, on the way to mass, I thought I felt the baby move, little butterfly flutters in the belly. It’s still pretty early to be feeling the baby so at first I wasn’t sure if it wasn’t just rumblings in my digestive system...
My soul yearns for you in the night, yes my spirit within me keeps vigil for you; when your judgment dawns upon the earth, the world’s inhabitants learn justice. O Lord, you mete out peace to us, for it is you who have accomplished all we have...
For the second night in a row I’m up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep. I woke up at 2 and lay in bed for a while, composing a response to a blog post that’s been eating at me. Finally, I decided to just get up...
Dom took this short little video last week.
I don’t recall why she was wearing only a diaper. She’d pulled the belt out of the trash (the leather had ripped where it connects to the buckle.) and insisted we wrap it around her waist.
Today is my second wedding anniversary. It didn’t get off to a great start. I woke up at 4:30 and never could get back to sleep. I’m afraid I wasn’t very civil to poor Dom. And then I felt really chagrined when I opened my laptop...
View of the main stage. That’s the vendor tent at the right of the photo. Adoration was in a Marian grotto on the other side of the stage. For the past seven years my brother-in-law, Peter Campbell, has organized a fabulous event, the Proud 2B...
This afternoon I felt like a winner in a competition. The challenge: remove a wet sundress, bloomers and diaper and wipe away sand. Then put clean diaper on sleeping baby. All without waking her up. We had a lovely outing to the beach with Grandma...
