Christmas 2006

I wanted to share a picture of our Christmas tree. It was a gift from my dear friend Sally and her family. The day we had planned to go and get a tree was the day Tim’s father passed away. As it got closer to Christmas I didn’t know when we would find the time so I sent out a request to our local homeschool group that if anyone could pick us up a tree and I would gladly pay them for it. Sally’s...

My new favortie blog is. . .

Alice Cantrell’s “a number of things“. It’s light and pretty and always has something interesting to me. Go check out her latest post, it’s a free sweater and hat sewing pattern for an 18″ doll. ...

Update

Thank you all so very much for your prayers. The funeral was Wednesday and it truly was amazing. Of course there is a sadness at Dad’s passing but there is also so much hope and joy. What made me cry was the beauty of it all. The prayers, the songs (especially the song of farewell – oh I could almost see the holy souls coming to greet him!), the incense, all of it – every blessed thing. The VFW...

Devotions Meme

Ruth tagged me. Life have been really busy here but I thought I would respond and try to get a bit of a feeling of normal. 1. Favorite devotion or prayer to Jesus? The Divine Mercy 2. Favorite Marian devotion or prayer? Daily Miraculous Medal Prayer of St. Maximilian 3. Do you wear a scapular or medal? Miraculous medal 4. Do you have holy water in your home? Yes, in bottles. 5. Do you offer up your...

Our Christmas Star

Merry Christmas from the Quigley Family. Thank you Mary G. for the beautiful star ornament And this shot is just because it was too cute to resist....

The Savior has come!

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his...

Rest in Peace Dad

William Joseph Quigley June 27, 1924 – December 21,...

Our beautiful baby

Daddy is the photographer today – he’s getting pretty...

Interesting

Hat tip to Fr. Joe! – I love this kind of stuff! —————————— In the 1400’s a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have “the rule of thumb”. Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled “Gentlemen Only…Ladies Forbidden”…and thus the word...

Christmas Craft

Hat tip to One Hour Craft for this cute idea. This was really easy and fun to make. I’m making a bunch! The tutorial to make them can be found at...