~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~
Every Thursday, here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!
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So, the Pocket-Forming, Kindred-Spirit-Finding, Community-Making project is officially an avalanche! No way we anticipated this kind of response. The inbox is overflowing! The page is still completely disorganized!
It’s great. Thank you for your patience, and our apologies for not keeping up, although you know, it would take a staff! Who knew? And yet… I knew… that here on the blog there is a real understanding of the importance of being right where you are, reaching out to each other, and forming the community necessary not only to reinforce your own sense of being on a good path, but also to establish the connections that will prove so very vital to raising children in a healthy atmosphere.
The friends of today, nurtured through real conversation, fellowship, and ready help, will form the foundation for friendships for your kids! When they are very young, it’s hard to imagine how important this will be, and only later do you find that it’s these folks that you stuck with through thick and thin whose children became the lifelong friends of your children.
The St. Greg’s Pockets are a different use of social media. Instead of turning ever outwards into the ether or ever inwards into the entrails of the computer, we are encouraging you to use social media to find actual, real-life people in your locality to meet, converse with, and offer support to.
It’s one small way to bridge the collective memory gap — to help provide the bonds that we all need.
Even though we are lagging far, far behind, we are encouraging you to continue to join in.
Here’s the thing.
The hope for our sad world lies in strengthening the real relationships where we are living them. When we can tell each other true things and help each other in real ways, then we are building something of beauty!
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Meanwhile I have enjoyed having Freddie to cuddle! Ah…
And this girl… she is so protective. A real shepherdess.
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She can’t protect anyone when she’s cowering under the bed during a thunderstorm. Poor doggy…
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The St. Greg’s Pocket is such a great idea, thank you!
Beautiful baby! And surrounded with so much love!
Poor puppy, my seven year old lab is so terrified of storms and fireworks, he tries to sit in the lap of anyone willing. It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
That baby is beautiful!
My youngest are twin 4 year olds and I miss washing a baby in the sink. Hopefully the Lord will grant me one more baby. :)
Seriously beautiful baby!
Poor Roxie. We’ve had several dogs with varying degrees of storm fear–one of whom we had to give doggie prozac because he simply lost his mind during storms. Thankfully, none of our current pack has it.
excited about the St. Greg’s Pockets too! It’s OK that it takes time to get it all in order! thank you for your endeavour with this!
It’s hard to resist a baby-in-sink picture. Adorable!
It must be heaven to have your grandson being bathed in your sink, how precious! God bless the St Gregory pocket avalanche, I loved the comment strain on the post about the pockets from ladies in England…all over Europe…how cool is that?!?! Also….I wanted to update my link on your Little Oratory page but it wouldn’t let me delete my old one, so I just posted my new one (I loved Chapter 8)….so now…there are two of my links there…sorry! Not trying to overdue the links there! Blessings from Alaska :)
Awwww, shucks! I missed the deadline again! Has it changed? Last week I was quite late posting (about 11:30 pm ET), so this week I made sure to be earlier and I still missed it even though it’s 10 pm ET. Oh, well. Here’s the link: http://womanofthehouse-blog.blogspot.com/2014/09/pretty-happy-funny-real-september-14.html. My post shows a baby getting a bath in the sink too. That is absolutely the best way to do it, in my opinion. Little Freddie is just adorable! Those big brown eyes! :)
Woman of the House — sorry! I don’t know — the box that you set the time by can play tricks. I changed it and added your link!
Hope to do better next week :)