First, an early distant warning about Candlemas prep. We who have survived the Christmas season which included a power outage in the middle of our 7th Day/New Year’s Eve gathering, necessitating lighting not just some, but virtually all of our candles lest we stumble around in the pitch dark (and it was magical and lovely,… Read More »
Chatty, reminding.
Thinking ahead (which is not something I normally do very well), I want to remind you of a few things coming up in the liturgical life department. First, Candlemas is this Saturday. In my experience, not many parishes celebrate this day as a blessing of candles day. You could ask your priest if he would… Read More »
Beginning a simple prayer life with children.
As a convert with no collective memory to draw on, and also, not inconsequentially, no prayer life to speak of, I had no idea how to pray with the children! There are many things I wish I had done differently. My ability to produce children was greater than my ability to process that I had… Read More »
Inspiration for an Easter Craft (early) or Homemade Wedding Gifts (late)
–> I hate to be the one to interrupt my mom’s various series that you are all engrossed in. But I have had requests for posting pictures of the wedding gifts I made last summer for my siblings. And, the truth is, that they’re more seasonally appropriate now than they were in the summer, because… Read More »
Advent, The beginning of Wonder
Advent is the perfect time to begin to see what I meant by saying — surprising even myself — that the home is a place for order and wonder. THE question, the one I started blogging to try to answer, the one I despair of finding time or brain cells to answer (because I’m just… Read More »