Who, Me???
I was just given the “I Love Your Blog Award” from two super sweet bloggers: Shelly at The Keeper of the Keys, and Mrs. L from At the Wellsprings of Traditional Life!!! Thank you so much to both of you!!! I love your blogs too!
I am suppose to pass this award on to 7 more blogs. It will be hard to keep it at 7, since I have sooooo many favorites… I love all the blogs I read! 😉 But here are 7 from my list:
- Waltzing Matilda
- Eileen on Him… at least, I try!
- Merryheart Acres
- Unam Ecclesiam (of course!)
- Our Domestic Church
- Pinewood Castle
- Catholic Family Vignettes
Now, for you recipients of this award, here’s the deal:
* Display your award.
* Link back to the person who gave you the award.
* Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
* Put links to those blogs on yours.
* Leave a message on the blogs of the people you’ve nominated.
* Enjoy your award!
Let’s see, I will pass this BFF Gold Card Award (according to the rules below) to:
- Regina ~ The best BFF ever! 😉 I mean really, she went through all the trouble to leave me gazillion comments one night so she could claim that #1 spot on the top commenter’s list! Isn’t she sweet!
- Amy ~ I still love you Amy, even though you let Regina take your spot at the top. 😉
- Jamie ~ Who is very sweet and generous! We are still working on using some of the supplies she sent us back when TT made her Butterfly Lapbook! Thanks again Jamie!
- Michele ~ I am still hoping that someday we will be able to meet up for that cup of coffee… If only you lived closer!!! Oh well… I will have to give you a call to chat sometime soon!
- Aubrey ~ I am totally bummed that we hadn’t met before our Roadtrip to Nebraska! It would have been so fun to meet IRL!
*Once again, I seriously could keep going and going… but it is late, and I need to be going to bed!
Thank you Shelly, Mrs. L and Melissa for the Awards, it was very sweet of you all!
Goodnight, God Bless!
Novena to Saint Thérèse ~ Day Four
Novena to Saint Thérèse
Please pray…
… for Elizabeth Foss and her precious little one.
Prayer for a Special Favor
O Most Blessed Trinity, I your unworthy creature, thank you for all the gifts and privileges which you have granted to Saint Gerard, especially for those virtues with which you have adorned him on earth and the glory which you impart to him in heaven. Accomplish your work, O Lord, for the greater glory of the Holy Church. Glorify him before men and women and through his merits, in union with those of Jesus and Mary, grant me the grace for which I ask …(mention your request)
And you, my powerful intercessor St. Gerard, always so ready to help those who have recourse to you, pray also for me. Prostrate yourself before the throne of Divine Mercy and please do not leave it without being heard. To you I confide this important and urgent affair. Graciously take my cause in hand and let me not end this novena without having experienced in some way the effects of your intercession. Amen.
Playing with Little People
I was quite surprised last night when Twinkle Toes called me into the nursery to see the “Little People go to Mass!” I guess she decided they had done enough farming lately and that it was high time to convert the barns into a church, choir loft and all! She also pointed out that it was a “Latin Mass since the altar is on the back wall and there is a communion rail.” I asked her who was saying Mass and she replied that one of the priests is her Uncle (__), that her other two uncles are the Deacon and Subeacon, and the other little person on the altar is the altar boy. I love how she used the “Three Wise Men” for her uncles, and the “Prince” for the altar boy.
She even found an “organ!” (Although I am not sure what the organist is doing with a cell phone during Mass???)
It reminded me of the Church the boys built out of Lincoln logs. Anyway, isn’t it cute?!?
Novena to Saint Thérèse ~ Day Three
O St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, who during your short life on earth became a mirror of angelic purity, of love strong as death, and of wholehearted abandonment to God, now that you rejoice in the reward of your virtues, cast a glance of pity on me as I leave all things in your hands. Make my troubles your own, speak a word for me to Our Lady Immaculate, whose flower of special love you were — to that Queen of Heaven “who smiled on you at the dawn of life” Beg her powerful intercession the grace I yearn for so ardently at this moment…and that she join with it a blessing that may strengthen me during life, defend me at the hour of death, and lead me straight on to a happy eternity. Amen.
O God, who did inflame with the Spirit of Love, the soul of your servant Thérèse of the Child Jesus, grant that we also may love you and make you much loved. Amen.
DAY THREE
O Thérèse of the Child Jesus, lily of purity, ornament and glory of Carmel, I greet you, great saint, seraph of divine love. I rejoice in the favors our Lord so liberally bestowed on you. In humility and confidence I ask you to help me, for I know God has given you love and pity as well as power. Tell Him, now, I beseech you, of the favor I seek in this novena… Your request will crown my petition with success and bring joy to my heart. Remember your promise to do good here on earth. “I shall spend my heaven doing good on the Earth. After my death I shall let fall a shower of roses.”
St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, pray for us.
My little Artists
Captain: “Mom, now that we know how to paint frescoes, can we please paint the ceiling in our bedroom?”
Rascal: “Yeah, like Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel! We could do it, really!”
A is for Art
Mona Lisa, Michelangelo,
For Art this year we are using the great book M is for Masterpiece as a spine, with Serendipity’s A is for Art lesson plans.
Here are a few pictures of *some* of the fun things we did for week one, “A is for Art!”
And I think we might just watch The Agony and the Ecstasy
Novena to Saint Thérèse ~ Day Two
Novena to Saint Thérèse
O St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, who during your short life on earth became a mirror of angelic purity, of love strong as death, and of wholehearted abandonment to God, now that you rejoice in the reward of your virtues, cast a glance of pity on me as I leave all things in your hands. Make my troubles your own, speak a word for me to Our Lady Immaculate, whose flower of special love you were — to that Queen of Heaven “who smiled on you at the dawn of life” Beg her powerful intercession the grace I yearn for so ardently at this moment…and that she join with it a blessing that may strengthen me during life, defend me at the hour of death, and lead me straight on to a happy eternity. Amen.
O God, who did inflame with the Spirit of Love, the soul of your servant Thérèse of the Child Jesus, grant that we also may love you and make you much loved. Amen.
DAY TWO
Almighty God, giver of all good gifts, who did will that Blessed Thérèse, being watered by the heavenly dew of your guiding grace, should bloom in Carmel with the beauty of virginity and patience in suffering, grant that I your servant may go forward in the order of her sweetness an may be found worthy to become a devoted and loyal follower of Christ. Amen.
St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, pray for us.
Novena to Saint Thérèse
The feast day of St. Thérèse is coming up! Her feast is celebrated on the 1st of October (and on the 3rd of October on the Traditional Calendar). The novena for her intercession can be said anytime, but especially on the 9 days prior and ending on the eve of the Feast (Sept 30th or Oct 2nd).
“Many people {including myself!} report unexpectedly finding or being given a literal rose or roses (or smelling the perfume of roses) after praying to St. Thérèse, who said on her deathbed, ‘After my death, I will let fall a shower of roses. I will spend my Heaven doing good upon earth. I will raise up a mighty host of little saints. My mission is to make God loved…’” Quoted from Fisheaters
O St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, who during your short life on earth became a mirror of angelic purity, of love strong as death, and of wholehearted abandonment to God, now that you rejoice in the reward of your virtues, cast a glance of pity on me as I leave all things in your hands. Make my troubles your own, speak a word for me to Our Lady Immaculate, whose flower of special love you were — to that Queen of Heaven “who smiled on you at the dawn of life” Beg her powerful intercession the grace I yearn for so ardently at this moment…and that she join with it a blessing that may strengthen me during life, defend me at the hour of death, and lead me straight on to a happy eternity. Amen.
O God, who did inflame with the Spirit of Love, the soul of your servant Thérèse of the Child Jesus, grant that we also may love you and make you much loved. Amen.
DAY ONE
O Thérèse of the Child Jesus, well beloved and full of charity, in union with you, I reverently adore the majesty of God, and since I rejoice with exceeding joy in the singular gifts of grace bestowed upon you during your life, and your gifts of glory after death, I give Him deepest thanks for them; I beseech you with all my heart’s devotion to be pleased to obtain for me (…mention request here). But if what I ask of you so earnestly does not tend to the glory of God and the greater good of my soul, do you, I pray, obtain for me that which is more profitable to both these ends. Amen.
St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, pray for us.
Learning about the Five Senses
Last weeks Little Saints Preschool Theme was “My Five Senses.”
We never are able to get to everything that is suggested in the teachers manual (although I do try!), and sometimes (if I am feeling ambitious!) I substitute or add additional projects, books, games and poems of our own that work along with the theme.
One of the variations we did this week was add a fun introduction to the five senses called “Popping Popcorn.”
I had the children feel and look at the the unpopped kernels. We then read a poem The Popcorn Song by Nancy Byrd Turner (Found on page 45 of Favorite Poems Old and New
The Popcorn SongPop-pop-pop, said the popcorn in the pan,
Pop-pop-pop, you can catch me if you can.
Pop-pop-pop, said the kernel white and yellow.
Pop-pop-pop, I’m a happy, dancing fellow.
Pop-pop-pop, I can dance and skip and hop.
Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop!
The children got to see, smell and hear it as it popped.
After it was done popping, they each got a bucket of warm popcorn to touch and taste.
We talked about what the popcorn looked like(blossoms on trees, etc…). Captain even found the “Easter Bunny!” (what do you think? It is pictured to the right)
It was lots of fun and my children were begging to “do it again,” even before they had finished eating their popcorn!
Here are a few of the other things we did this past week:
We Read:
- Squishy, Squishy: A Book About My Five Senses
- Under the Moon
- My Five Senses
- Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Various Searching Books (What do you “see” and for playing Eye Spy!):
by Rascal
by Twinkle Toes
by Chiquita
We did a few other fun things as well. My children love this program.
The girls pretty much have the Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes song down, and I wanted to video them again, but hubby has the camera now. (Unfortunately I still have the memory card… oops!)
I also had hoped to make a Five Senses Lapbook with the girls, but I was lazy was not that ambitious had too many other things going on desperately needed to scale back and give myself a break last week, since I am (and will be) on my own for awhile…
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