Happy St. Joseph's Day! I can't believe how fast Holy Week and Easter are approaching... I hope you are all having a blessed and fruitful Lent this year. Here is North Idaho we are so grateful to have full access to Holy Mass, and all of the sacraments, unlike last...
I always look forward to filling our children's Easter baskets each year with books and gifts that incorporate our beautiful Catholic faith! I also love incorporating the various Easter Symbols and filling a basket with various gifts for the whole...
I always look forward to filling our children's Easter baskets each year with books and gifts that incorporate our beautiful Catholic faith! I also love incorporating the various Easter Symbols and filling a basket with various gifts for the whole...
Easter Symbols - Easter Basket Stuffers and Gift Ideas Last year I shared 100+ Easter Basket Stuffers & Catholic Gift Ideas and I have even more to share with you this year! In addition to new books, I always try to fill our children's baskets (and the Easter...
Easter is only one month away and I've been rounding up gifts to fill our children's Easter Baskets! As I have shared before, I'm always collecting books to give our children on their birthdays, Easter, and Christmas. Some of the books I have purchased...
I have already shared Pictures from Easter Sunday and Our Annual Easter Sunday Egg Hunt. Before I move on to the pictures from the Chiquita's birthday I have Easter Baskets to share, following morning Mass on Easter Sunday. You can find my past post where I...
I just love Easter! As unorganized as I was this year, everything still came together thanks to the preparation from year's past... I pulled out the children's Easter Baskets and liners, our "Alleluia" mantle letters along with a few other simple yet beautiful...
Following Mass on Easter Morning, we returned home and the children were all so excited to see what was inside their Easter Baskets! I just wasn't able to make all our handmade candy this year, but we still included a Chocolate Cross and a hollow chick filled...
For the past few years, in addition to to our children's individual Easter Baskets, I've assembled a basket for the whole family. The first two years the basket included items for some of our Garden of the Good Shepherd Activities and Garden Parties that...
Don't you just love Easter morning? Despite forcing myself to go to bed at midnight (leaving a number of things unfinished) and setting my oven timer for six hours, so I would be forced to get up in the morning to defrost the dinner rolls and start the ham for...
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.
