We have a special visitor this week! Our school has an Our Lady of Fatima statue you can sign up to bring home, and I signed us up for the first week of May.The Blessed Mother is in a place of honor in our home and Daniel and I cut azaleaRead More
Contrary to what you might have thought, we didn’t celebrate the Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux in a grand way. I started my daily blogging effort for the month of October inspired by her Little Way, and I did mention to our sons that it was her feast day.For breakfastRead More
I used to let our sons wear whatever they wanted for school picture day. But somewhere along the way I realized that it’s the only day of the year we have a professional photo taken, so…well…maybe they should wear something nicer than a Star Wars T-shirt.I know what you’re thinking:Read More
I think we were supposed to argue politics at Thanksgiving dinner, but the only dicey moment was when people disagreed on the benefits of butter.I’m staying out of that one.Earlier in the day, Daniel asked me, “How does Grandpa carve the turkey? Does he carve it out of a pumpkin?”IRead More
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! We celebrated this wonderful feast day by…um…well…I wore green! And so did John, though that might have been accidental. Sadly, our boys just wore their plain uniforms.I definitely could have done more to celebrate St. Patrick at home. I’ll have to blare some Irish music aroundRead More
Beatification bound Or, “Roamin’ to Rome” ORTE, Italy – Coming from Kentucky and Tennessee, Florida and Ohio, Maryland and Virginia, Delaware and Pennsylvania, a group of 50 pilgrims from the eastern United States gathered in Rome to join hundreds of thousands of others expected to witness the beatification of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II....Read More
ANNAPOLIS – The House Judiciary Committee and the House Health and Government Operations Committee voted Feb. 14 to send Gov. Martin O’Malley’s same-sex marriage bill to the floor.Read More