Just an FYI.  I’m in the middle of changing my web hosting. Which means this blog, my main site and my sewing blog may go down for a while until I can get everything in its proper place.

Here I am!
OK I’m teasing but actually it’s pretty close.
I haven’t had time to take a picture lately and my photographer (aka 16yr.old son) is away at the moment. He’s arriving back from a long “trek” this evening and we’re all looking forward to seeing him and hearing about his adventure!
Now that […]

I loved this article - it’s so true!
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You are Weird; God is Odd
by Peter Mirus, special to CatholicCulture.org
July 13, 2005
There’s no hiding the fact that my family are a bunch of nutcases, and I’m certainly the nut with the biggest cracks. This is probably apparent to everybody. But aside from our garden variety eccentricities, there […]

Our two youngest boys, Peter and Matthew, are sick. They both have strep throat. They rarely even get sick so strep throat in the middle of summer was a surprise to me (it has been suggested to me that they may have contracted it at the pool we go to - one more […]

Last weekend at the Catholic Family Expo something at the Emmanuel Books table really caught my eye.

Beautiful and colorful, on glossy paper with lovely illustrations, the Night Prayerbook - Compline -Liturgy of the Hours was one I hadn’t seen before but was keenly interested in. This book contains Compline (Night Prayer) for every night […]

Today is the feast day of Saint Felicity & Her Seven Sons. It’s also my birthday and I too have seven sons (so far!).
Perpetua and Felicity were martyred in Carthage by Emperor Septimus Severus in 202 or 203. They were in a large group of Christians who had been rounded up and imprisoned. Perpetua received […]