Here’s an introduction to some of what we’ve got going on around here…please make yourself at home, and feel free to comment on any post even if it’s older. I do check and respond to comments, although sometimes it takes me a few days when things are busy.
On being “blessed”
30 things I can do instead of Facebooking through Lent
When life already feels like Lent
Feast of St. Brigid
Epiphany House Blessing
Twelfth Night
Feast of the Holy Family
Advent- What if it’s too dark to see God?
Feast of St. Lucy
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Feast of St. Nicholas
Advent chain craft: Names of Jesus
Advent music playlist
Why I need Advent.
Christ the King Sunday
Holiness at the end of a broom
The Angelus
Feast of St. George
Tea for Georgemas
Feast of The Annunciation
Feast of St. Patrick
Parenting
Monday morning manifesto
Open letter to my friends
Cloud of witnesses (the library story time disaster)
Sometimes I just say “yes”
Epilepsy and our new “normal”
In praise of lower standards
Part 1: Merit badges for moms and therapy for tropical fish
Part 2: Update: Merit badges, fish and tantrums
Part 3: Fish relocation and preschool morality
Ode to the village
On not being enough
First time: flying a kite
So tired.
Miles and milestones
When paper towels fly
Don’t say this to a mom having a tough day…
Two whole hours…alone time
Why I love to hate the post office
Baking Soda & Vinegar experiment
Play with Water Beads
Rainy Day Survival Guide
Our interplanetary post office
Cloud dough
Paper tube nativity scene
Church activities: Felt Books
Church activities: Mass Bags
Pumpkin Painting Party
The Best Play Dough Recipe Ever
Butterfly hatch
Earth to SuperSam
Planetarium date with SuperSam
Space activities: planet making, Gustav Holst, rockets, homemade space helmet
Making Ice Planets
Making Moon Sand
Vol. 1- Dinosaur wash
Vol. 2- Toy kitchen in the kitchen
Vol. 3- Box rocket building
Vol. 4- Impromptu Sock Hop (with our 1950s playlist)
Vol. 5- Cleanup Theme Song
Song
View
Jump
After
Ordinary
What Mama Did
Beloved
Bare
Cherished
Opportunity
RunningOn Boston
Giving thanks: Turkey Trots
Race report: OBX Half Marathon, Outer Banks, NC
7 Quick Takes: OBX racing love
Calling for reinforcements
Running playlist
Just go run already.
Back on track
Preschool Cooking AdventuresGingersnaps in July
No-Cook Peanut Butter Balls
Ways to encourage your child to love reading
7 books to read when you wish it was snowing
Twin parenting – life with multiples
Short list of things people say to parents of multiples
Letter to a New Mom of Multiples (Dear New Twin Mom)
Bathing Babies
Death by shoe shopping with twins
Surviving Grocery Shopping with little ones
What no one told me about having twins
Summer Sunday afternoon in pictures
Theme Thursday: Celebration
Theme Thursday: Sky
Surviving Our Blessings 