My husband’s job is journalism…Catholic journalism. He has a colleague in France who has seven children (and if you think it’s a challenge raising a big family in America, you should count your blessings). This interesting, amiable fellow has sent two of his sons here to stay with us to practice their English (despite my… Read More »
Earring organization {lame craft warning}
How lazy am I? I needed a way of keeping my earrings handy without tossing them in the darling boxes I have been using for a long time. {You can see them there in the reflection — they are little boxes that Habou painstakingly covered in small bits of Christmas cards. They have little “fussy… Read More »
A blessed feast day!
And where sin abounded, grace did more abound. Romans 5:20 I didn’t want you to think we didn’t celebrate today’s glorious feast! So I don’t have a particular dish I serve on this day. No special foods to represent Our Lady’s purity, or anything like that. But…how does BBQ pulled pork sound? For breakfast after… Read More »
I may never catch up, but that’s okay.
I did deploy my Advent wreaths (although not with new candles) on the kitchen table… …and in the dining room…. And I took down the hydrangea. But by now you know that I’m always a bit behind… Today, on the very last day of November, I finalized my little attempt at an All-Souls’/All Saints’ prayer… Read More »
Advent prayers, and a little more on how I make the Advent wreaths…
Here is a document I prepared with simple Advent prayers for the Sundays, as well as the text of O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. If you need to know the tune, you can find it here. People, do not be daunted by the Advent wreath. Last year, when I posted about it, I promised to… Read More »