Our family recently attended a field trip to an Animal Rehabilitation & Information Center which cares for over 1,000 wild animals every year at no charge to individuals or organizations. When we arrived they asked everyone to break up into 4 groups of...
I recently was asked to read and review the book Past Suspicion by Therese Heckenkamp. The author, a home-shooled student from Wisconsin and originally Australia, was only eighteen when she completed her first draft of this book, finishing...
Outside my window...I am actually sitting outside my window at the moment! The weather is perfect (sunny with a high of 86˚) and we are enjoying the sunshine. Even though today is suppose to be the warmest day of the week, we are all very happy to have a...
Your works, O Lord, are manifold and wisely made, and well!You fill the world with forms of life more than our tongues can tell. Oh, yonder lies the rolling sea with life of ev'ry sort,and in it lives Leviathan, whom you have made for sport.These look to you and...
~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life. ~I hadn't intended to pretty much stop blogging this past week, but I've been a little busy. I made the decision to start spending an hour on the treadmill each day, which has all but eliminated my...
Month Dedication ~ The Blessed Virgin Mary:A Marian Titles May Crowning Luncheon (2011)Mum Cupcakes (2011)An Alphabet of Mary (2012)May Crowning Garden Party (2012)If Only (2013 - prayer)The May Magnificat (2013 - prayer)The Catholic Child and the...
Last Thursday afternoon we had our 5th Little Flowers Girls' Club meeting for Wreath IV, and first meeting since December! I hadn't intended on taking such a long baby break - just January and February - but March and April were filled with sickness for half the...
Father in heaven, grant me the grace to appreciate the dignity which you have conferred on me. Let me realize that not even the Angels have been blessed with such a privilege—to share in your creative miracle and bring new Saints to heaven. Make me a good mother to all my children after the example of Mary, the Mother of your Son. Through the intercession of Jesus and Mary I ask your continued blessings on my family. Let us all be dedicated to your service on earth and attain the eternal happiness of your kingdom in heaven. Amen.
