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Of boys and Legos…again.
Ah, Legos… Having once again sorted, stepped upon and screamed over the growing pile, I felt the need to reminisce…and smile over my musings two years ago: Lego: from the Danish, LEg GOdt: play well....
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Happy Feast of St. Michael the Archangel!
I hope you won’t remind a repost for this feast day…and I hope you’ll only quickly read and then proceed to celebrate the day in a very special way…Happy Feast of St. Michael…Happy Michaelmas! MICHAEL...
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An oddly shaped cross…
…awaits my youngest girl. Nine year old Rylee Elizabeth has idiopathic scoliosis and will soon need to be fitted for a brace which she will wear 23.5 hours per day for the next several years. There is...
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The waiting game…
Thank you, my friends, for your prayers and patience with this very unfaithful blogger… As previously revealed, our Rylee has been experiencing some very troubling symptoms for the past few months, but...
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We are pro-life…
Just seventeen… Cheerleader, gymnast and aspiring writer. Contestant in an upcoming national teen beauty pageant. Honor student, blue ribbon artist and art director for the school yearbook. Scholarship...
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What life looks like right now…
Hi there…remember me? I used to blog here…but then life crept in along the edges and everywhere in between and my writing fell by the wayside. I found myself posting little snippets, here and there...
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Prayers? Thanks…
Certainly, there is nothing too small to present before the Throne of God…and while these two events are troubling, we praise Him for His goodness when it could be so much worse… Last night, my son...
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The eve of the feast…
The turkey has been happily brining away all day, floating in the midst of allspice, peppercorns and ginger…waiting to be stuffed and slow roasted…all. night. long. I truly enjoy this part of...
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Hearts and roses…
A few days ago, hubby and I took a little drive down the path to the woods. One of the outdoor cats was missing and we were sure we’d find him hiding out in the beautiful park-like setting of our...
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The cross before the Crib…
There’s a thin red line that tells a tale of a heart broken, now mended…of the God-given skill of a surgeon’s hands…of a long wait of nearly overwhelming proportion…of a second chance at life and...
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A merry band of carolers…
Who can outgive God? Who among us can give gifts better than He, who gave the gift of salvation to us all, through the “fiat” of a humble Virgin, the cries of a wee babe, and the anguished suffering...
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I am a Catholic parent…
The Holy Family…the model of perfection Catholic parenting…how on earth does one do it, let alone define it? In a perfect world one might say it’s “the loving and successful completion of child-rearing...
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Shattered Innocence
An article I wrote in 2008 for Catholic Exchange. Happily, all the negative comments associated with its original publication have been removed, since it was allocated a new link… I was nine years old...
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Sheen-tastic!
Wow…I’m truly humbled. For the past several months, with all the harried-worried-scattered and battered days we’ve had, I had pretty much ignored this space. So I was quite surprised that anyone,...
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A glimpse of green…
We’ve been through trying times…times of sickness, surgery and worry…and yet, these times have brought us closer together in faith…given us hope…and shown us the beauty of true Christian charity. I’ve...
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White not green…
Ah, Spring…the earth begins to warm, things new and green peek from hard, brown earth…promises and hope in the rise and set of the sun. And then there’s this: White…not green! The unexpected in March,...
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Ozzie
What’s all that white stuff? Nothing that need trouble this kitty… My kitty friend is healthy and happy…a rescue retrieved from certain death when his mother abandoned him last year…a young cat that...
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Easter Cleaning…because we should!
This is a repost…from years past and dusted off, ahem, so to speak, for the coming season. Why should we engage in Easter Cleaning? Here are a couple reasons that appeal to me: Deep cleaning is...
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Bright
Unexpected. The sound of rushing water at 5:00 a.m. coming from a darkened bathroom, sounding very much as though someone was in the shower. Alas, it was a broken pipe, insufficiently tightened after...
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The Beauty of the East…revisited
It was with great awe that we received the news that the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, would be in attendance for the first time since the Great Schism, at the installation of...
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