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Who am I serving?

A beautiful and thought provoking entry written by a Serbian friend of mine. For some of us it might also be a bit of a reality check.”I think every mother has struggled with serving her family. It’s not always easy and often it drains our every last bit of time and energy. I have often felt tired of serving, especially in the last 5 years. Our family grew to 5 children. We moved back to our home country...

Observations of a 6 yr. old. . .

while dreamily staring out the backdoor window this morning. Her: “Mom, I think we have the biggest family on the block.” Me: “Uh, well honey we don’t know that for sure but yes it’s quite likely.” Her: “And I think we have the biggest tree on the block too!” Me [looking out the window to the tree in the backyard and taking a quick scan of the surrounding neighborhood...

My first knitting project in over 20 years!

I recently started knitting again after 20 years. I decided to knit myself something useful like these fingerless mitts. When I’m working on my planner, I spend a lot of time at my computer using the mouse and my hands tend to get quite cold and stiff.I found the pattern in the book Weekend Knitting and thought it would be a good project to start with. It definitely was. I was frustrated at first but...

The Will of God

Todays Gospel reading is from Mark 3:31-35 “And his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside they sent to him and called him. And a crowd was sitting about him; and they said to him, ‘Your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you.’ And he replied, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ And looking around on those who sat about him, he said, ‘Here are my...

Cooper’s Hawk

We got some great shots of this Cooper’s Hawk the other day. It had just killed another bird and was feasting on it while perched on the phone wires outside our home. You can see a little bit of the “kill” at the bottom of the picture but I’ll spare you the really graphic shots my 16 yr. old son took. ...

Fun Finds

I stopped by the dollar store this morning after going to the gym. Today is the gift exchange for my dd’s Little Flowers group so in my typical last minute fashion I stopped to pick up gifts. BUT I also found some nice educational stuff for my younger children. I got large wooden lacing beads for my 16 month old who is at this very moment happily placing them in a Christmas tin and then having even...

My Catholic Homepage

Someone sent me a link to this site the other day. I loved it and made it my new homepage. myCatholic.com is a customizable Catholic homepage that allows users to choose their own content, layout, and preferences. It offers daily Mass readings, reflections, news, commentary, custom RSS/Atom feeds, a Catechism study, tools, and more. It even lets you customize what blogs you want to see. Now that’s a...

New Year Resolutions

Inspired by the Bookworm’s recent post of her New Year resolutions, I have borrowed her format and posted my own. Faith: Be consistent in saying morning and evening prayer (adapted from the Divine Office) and attend mass at least one other time during the week. Family: Have a monthly one on one “date” with each of my children. Tell my husband every day how much I love and appreciate...