Love is Patient, Love is Kind 1 Corinthians 13:4This year for our upcoming St. Valentine's Day card exchange, Snuggles decided to create Bible Candy Valentines to give to his family and friends! I've run across variations of this idea in the past, some...
February Daybook on the Feast of St. Blaise
Roses are red, violets are blue, Angels in heaven know I love you.- Old Song, excerpt from A Time to Keep: The Tasha Tudor Book of Holidays*Note: All links to Amazon are affiliate links.Outside my window...Yes, those were our children out there in the...
Celebrating St. Valentine’s Day 2013
What a week! Coordinating a Latin Mass last Sunday at our parish, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes on Monday and finding out that our Holy Father is resigning, Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday, and then St. Valentine's Day all back to back! We then had the...
Our little Bud
{St. Valentine's Day 2012 :: 8 weeks old and weighing 10 pounds 4 ounces}
Homemade St. Valentine’s Day Cards
This past Friday, and then again yesterday afternoon, we spent some time making cards to exchange for St. Valentine's Day! This year I had each of the children come and take a look at some of the ideas I had pinned to see if there was anything that they wanted...
St. Valentine’s Day Cocoa with Sprinkles
Didn't those mugs of Hot Cocoa turn out super cute?!? When I came in from snapping a few pictures of our children playing in the snow, I decided to whip up a batch of Hot Cocoa to help warm them up when they came back inside, since the baby was still sleeping. I...
Celebrating St. Valentine’s Day
~ St. Valentine Cupcakes ~ I raided my tub of sprinkles and pulled out all the ones that were pink, red or white. I had no idea I had so many!We made cupcake toppers using a picture of St. Valentine and attaching them to some heart picks. ~ Valentine...
St. Valentine’s Day Printables
I wasn't having much luck finding St. Valentine (emphasis on Saint) printables that I was interested in using today, so I ended up making a couple of my own. Drawing from the picture book Saint Valentine by Robert Sabuda, and adapting some of the vocabulary and...
St. Valentine’s Day Mailboxes
St. Valentine's Day is coming up tomorrow, and we are finally starting to get ready! With a birthday just one week before Valentine's Day, I never seem to have the time to do all the things I would like to do, to get ready for this fun feast day. Every year we...
On St. Valentine’s Day
~ A Gift of Meals ~ Valentine Cookies, Banana Bread, Chicken Enchiladas, Vegetable Lasagna, Green Enchiladas, and Turkish Spinach and Lentil Soup all made by a local Little Flowers Group (as a service project) for our family! This was such a...
Prayer of Mothers
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.