Changes

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...

Belly shot

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 he’ll be home, we’re taking family pictures this weekend...

Those strange Catholics!

I loved this article – it’s so true! —————————– 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,...

Sick and feeble – well, not exactly.

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 reason not to like the pool I say! – I’m just not a pool mom) Anyway they are quite miserable though tonight we seemed to have turned...

New book finds

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 of the year. It is the prayer of the Church and one we the laity...

July 10th Feast of Saint Felicity and Her Seven Sons

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 a dream where she saw a ladder stretching from earth to Heaven covered with sharp implements of...