I can only hope God will give my husband and me the wisdom, the strength, the courage to handle each stage we will encounter as a family.
“Don’t step on a crack. You’ll break your mother’s back!”
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7 Quick Takes: Not camping this weekend, dominoes and dishes, my favorite response to Jimmy Kimmel, Star Wars Day, and more
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This week’s 7 Quick Takes includes a breakfast Star Wars tribute.
7 Quick Takes Friday: Going camping, cabbage, ham, Harpoon Lagoon, Infertility Awareness Week, and a visit to the cemetery
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These week’s 7 Quick takes covers ongoing Easter celebrations, camping, a visit to the cemetery and much more!
A sweet reminder from our son during Mass
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“Pure love … knows that only one thing is needed to please God,” St. Faustina wrote, “to do even the smallest things out of great love—love, and always love.”
7 Quick Takes: Lasagna for Easter, our fun spring break, preparing for summer, a trip to the zoo, and signs of spring
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This week’s 7 Quick Takes includes Easter fun and a trip to the zoo.
The search for a new-to-us bicycle
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Two boys and two bicycles and two bicycle helmets and a new love for bargain shopping. Not bad for a beautiful spring afternoon.
What happened when we put all our prayers in one basket for Lent
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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…
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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
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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
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How did you celebrate April Fools Day?
Answered prayers (or the story of a missing watch)
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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
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This Lenten season, as we fast and serve and pray, I hope we can try to find moments just to be with God.
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