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Week in My Life 2017: Wednesday

November 15, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

I’m up before the sons, which makes me think I have a jump on the day.

Week in My Life 2017: Tuesday

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

A stuffed cow and his owner crawl into my bed to wake me up, and I realize the morning is already getting away from us.

Week in My Life 2017: Monday

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

I’m chronicling our ordinary, but extraordinary, life every day this week. Here’s Monday.

A Golden Birthday, a gratitude garland, how mothers are dictionaries, and more (7 Quick Takes)

November 9, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

Our older son is 10 today—double digits! It’s his golden birthday (10 on the 10th), and he has been counting down the days, of course.

A Q&A with a seminarian on his vocation to the priesthood

November 8, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Feature, Open Window, Vocations

During National Vocations Awareness Week, seminarian Tommy O’Donnell reflects on his vocation to the priesthood.

Ooh la la! Let’s have French onion soup for dinner

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

We don’t always have the time and money to slip away to a lovely French restaurant. So I decided to make French onion soup for dinner.

Farewell to soccer practice and Halloween, hello to stuffed peppers and November (7 Quick Takes)

November 2, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

It’s November! How did that happen? I am hearing people mention Thanksgiving as if it’s just around the corner.

Trick or treat: Procrastinating and still mostly winning at Halloween (Five Favorites)

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

How is it Halloween already? Here are five tricks-or-treats (you decide) as we head into this fun-filled holiday.

Chaperoning a field trip to St. Mary’s City, our first family hotel stay, a poetry reading, and The Irish Blessing (7 Quick Takes)

October 27, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

Ever been to St. Mary’s City? I hadn’t gone until this week when I chaperoned a fourth grade field trip there.

How we talk about death with our children

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

I am not in any way an expert. I am just feeling my way and trusting that the Holy Spirit is leading us through these conversations.

Meeting new twin cousins, a free car seat, funeral preparations, and a Thomas Merton quote (7 Quick Takes)

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

We dropped in on our new twin nephews and cousins this week. They are absolutely precious.

Screen Time (in rhyme)

October 17, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

A little poetry to mark an ordinary every day memory

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