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What happened when we put all our prayers in one basket for Lent

April 14, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

If I were getting graded on how I’ve done this Lent, I am not sure I would pass.Maybe that’s why I am especially grateful for the prayer basket we filled with intentions before Lent even began.Every morning we’ve pulled out a name for our intention of the day. We’ve prayed for

As my goddaughter turns 1…

April 12, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

One year ago I drove to the hospital to hold my niece for the first time. She was precious and sweet and snuggly and warm.This weekend we celebrated her first birthday. Throughout her party, she was laughing and crawling and bouncing and reaching over to give her big sister a

With a Peep Peep here, and a Peep Peep there: An Easter-themed snack for a Cub Scouts meeting

April 12, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

For weeks our first grader has been reminding me that soon it would be our turn to bring the snack to Cub Scouts. I haven’t focused much on it, but he has been taking it very seriously.Our turn came the Wednesday before Easter—Spy Wednesday—so I suggested we should bring pretzels.

7 Quick Takes Friday: April Fools Day, fishing in the cold, a dragon in the sky, a visit to a beloved playground, and the start of baseball season

April 6, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

How did you celebrate April Fools Day?

Answered prayers (or the story of a missing watch)

April 3, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

Every day during Lent we pull a slip of paper out of our prayer basket and read the name of the person or people listed there.We’ve prayed for cousins and grandparents, deceased family members and living friends. We share stories about the people we’re praying for, and—when I think of

Never too old for bedtime kiss

March 30, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

This Lenten season, as we fast and serve and pray, I hope we can try to find moments just to be with God.

What we found when we went birthday gift shopping

March 28, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

If ever there were an aunt who deserves to be celebrated, it’s Aunt Shai. She gives her nieces and nephews her undivided attention, plays with them for hours, reads to them, and teaches them how to make up stories with their toys.So even though it wasn’t clear that she wanted

A warm welcome at Mass

March 19, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

I’ve never paid much attention to what greeters do before Mass. I always smile at them and say hello, maybe compliment a scarf or comment on the weather. Still, I hadn’t really considered it a significant job.At our parish’s Scout Mass this week, though, Daniel was a greeter, and he

Why we’re laughing at the BBC interview with Professor Robert Kelly

March 11, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, News, Open Window

When I was watching the footage of the BBC interview with Professor Robert Kelly, and his daughter came dancing into the room—followed by her baby brother in a walker—I couldn’t help but laugh. But I wasn’t laughing at his predicament, or his wife’s, as she swoops in to scoop up

Books on mice are twice as nice as having houses full of mice: children’s books about mice

January 25, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

 We have a mouse—or maybe we have mice—scampering through our house in broad daylight, without a care in the world, happy as can be. The traps are apparently no trouble to avoid, the treats in the traps are apparently not appealing at all, and every day I am able to

There’s a mouse in the house—and there’s a Catholic saint who can help with that

January 17, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window, Saints

There’s a mouse in the house—and there’s a Catholic saint who can help with that

Celebrating a dozen years of marriage

September 25, 2016
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

Twelve years ago I stood in the narthex of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, wearing my white gown, impatient and excited for the day—and this new chapter of life—to begin.My father was there, and my bridesmaids—sisters and friends—along with a lovely flower girl and a handsome little ring bearer.

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